University Daily Kansan / Wednesday Aug. 23, 1989
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KLZR program answers questions about human sexuality for students Radio station targets University, teens with new talk show
by Doug Fishback Kansan staff writer
Area residents now are able to tune in the answers to their questions about human sexuality.
KU professor and sex therapist Demis Dailey moderates "Let's Talk Sex," a radio talk show that pre-merged Sunday night on KLZ-KPM-10.
The show airs 9 to 10 p.m. Sundays. Dalley is a member of a subcommittee of the Douglas County Task Force on Teen Pregnancy, which studies young people's sexual problems.
"Our intention is to target teenagers and young adults," Dailey said. "I think those are the folks who are struggling with some of the more routine questions."
"We believe that's the population that's not getting good sex education, and I think that's evidenced by the enrollments in my classes."
Dailey teaches an undergraduate course on human sexuality. He said enrollment for that course averaged about 300 each semester.
Such student enthusiasm is in part a result of social taboos that have
prevented young people from asking questions, he said.
"Given social attitudes about sexuality, people don't have many good places to ask questions," he said.
"That's to be expected," he said.
Those attitudes are likely to surface in the form of negative feedback on the new talk show, he said. Dailey is anticipating complaints from those who think the airwaves should not be used for sex education;
"That's to be expected," he said.
Given the expected resistance, DANIEL KLZR's six-month commitment to the program is "an issue of courage."
However, in some studies, up to 85 percent of the parents polled wanted their teens to have some form of sex education. Dailey said he hoped radio could satisfy some of that demand.
The idea of a college-town radio talk show on sex is not new to Dailey. He said a similar program he helped run at the University of Hawaii had been successful.
One of the features of a talk-show format that draws callers is the anonymity it provides, he said. This makes it easier for people to ask questions that otherwise might
embarrass them.
Bill Lee, KLZR program director, said radio was an intimate medium well-suited to the subject of sex.
"People listen to the radio as individuals — one on one," he said.
The flip side of the anonymity is that it makes it more difficult for a therapist to develop a counselor-client relationship with the listening public, Dailey said.
The biggest challenge for the new program will be generating enough celler volume to keep the show fresh, Lee said.
"When you have a town with no more people in it than Lawrence has," he said, "you tend to have the same people calling in over and over again with the same questions."
But if the questions are sincere, he said, they will be answered.
"If we're going to deal with honest people honestly, we have to answer all questions," Lee said. "If they ask a legitimate question, they'll get a legitimate answer."
This means that no subject matter, however explicit, will be out of bounds, he said.
| | Local Channel | Cable Channel |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| KQTV (ABC) | St. Joseph, Mo. | 2 |
| WDAF (NBC) | Kansas City, Mo. | 4 |
| KCTV (CBS) | Kansas City, Mo. | 8 |
| KMBC (ABC) | Kansas City, Mo. | 9 |
| KWKM (CBS) | Topeka, Kan. | 15 |
| WIBW (CBS) | Topeka, Kan. | 13 | 11 |
| KCPT (PBS) | Topeka, Kan. | 19 | 13 |
| KSNT (NBC) | Topeka, Kan. | 27 | 8 |
| KISSB (IND) | Kansas City, Mo. | 41 | 12 |
| KTXA (ABS) | Topeka, Kan. | 49 | 14 |
| KZCX (IND) | Kansas City, Mo. | 62 | 3 |
Ana & Entertainment ARTS | | 32 |
CNN CNN | | 21 |
House Of Representatives CSPAN | | 25 |
CSPANI CSPANI | | 26 |
Cable Value Network CVN | | 28 |
Duney DIS | | 24 |
Discovery DISC | | 29 |
ESPN ESPN | | 18 |
Family Network FAM | | 17 |
Financial News Network FNN | | 31 |
Home Box Office HBO | | 18 |
Lifetime LIFX | | 32 |
Cinemas MAX | | 15 |
Music Television MTV | | 2 |
The Nashville Network TNN | | 30 |
Nickelodeon NICK | | 18 |
Showtime SHOW | | 23 |
Southwave Cablevision | | 6 |
The Weather Channel TWC | | 27 |
USA Network USA | | 20 |
WGN WGN | | 22 |
WTBN WTBB | | 10 |
TheBetting | | 24 |
Stations listed are those which are available to Lawrence residents (cable channels are available through Sunflower Cable).
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