Category Archives: State of Sex Ed

EDUCATION

Abstinence Only “Education,” from .gov to YouTube

Via Voices of American Sexuality, a PSA from government-run 4parents.gov, with a whole raft of young people just begging their parents to teach them to wait until marriage to have sex:

Jenna Bush notwithstanding, of course.

Speaking & Teaching Sex Outside the Bubble

The challenge with the democratization of media-making has been just that: you know, democratization, getting voices and stories from outside the social media saturated echo chamber (San Francisco, New York, hello) out into the Great World Beyond. Which might be why finding a show like The Midwest Teen Sex Show is still shocking:

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Newsflash: Sex Ed More Than Diagrams, Directions, Disease

A study out of Melbourne University, polling the usual captive audience of young people — this time, those who’ve received sex education in Victoria — finds (unsurprisingly) that:
Many appeared to be crying out for sex education that went further than the standard biology and risk prevention.
“If they did get sexuality education it was mostly focused [...]