This video explores the forces influencing young people's decisions about sex: media, friends, family, religion, love, AIDS, alcohol, and homophobia. Teen Sexuality in a Culture of Confusion is a unique, accessible tool for facilitating an informed, balanced discussion about these and other influences on young people. In the age of AIDS, such talk can save lives. When young people tell their own stories, their peers listen. In this program, award-winning documentarian and photojournalist Dan Habib features the stories of eight young people, ages 16-24. Two of the eight talk about living with AIDS.

Interlaced with the first-person stories are experts' observations about the messages young people get from popular culture. Susan Bordo, author of Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body, joins five other prominent social scientists in discussing cultural influences on sexual activity among young people.

Produced & Directed by Dan Habib
Copyright 1998

Dan Habib is a freelance documentary and magazine photojournalist who also works for the Concord Monitor newspaper. He is a member of the Impact Visuals photojournalism cooperative. At the Monitor, Habib photographed (and often wrote) dozens of documentary stories, including essays on a man living with AIDS, Jamaican migrant workers, the struggles of a single father, a home birth and a day in the life of Bill Clinton's New Hampshire Primary campaign. His work for the Monitor won many regional and national awards. For four consecutive years he was named "Photojournalist of the Year" by the New Hampshire Photojournalists Association.