Sexying Up Sex Ed
Did you learn about the birds and the bees from your high school gym teacher — or did you get your sex ed from someone like Violet Blue, Tristan Taormino, or Ducky Doolittle? These days, more and more sex educators are stepping out on of the classroom and into sex toy shops, sex ed web sites, and hot how-to porn DVDs, making sex ed more accessible (and, in some cases, more wankable).
Catch up with the new generation of sex educators over at AVN, where Jamye Waxman profiles the ladies and men who are reinventing sex ed. Good bye, gym teachers — hello, educational porn!
[Via Babeland, photo by asiaticleague]
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Ok. Maybe i’m just a little defensive, but some of this mostly great article bothers me. It makes it sound like mainstream (for lack of a better word) sex ed is all statistics and fear based. As someone working in the mainstream world of sex ed., there are many of us out there who are pushing issues of healthy sexuality and pleasure into our educational mediums when appropriate.
I’d love to hear more about the overlap instead of the difference - of course instructional info on how to deep throat is different from understanding the interation between ejaculate and the cells in the back of the throat in disease transmission.
i’m just sayin’. rant over.
May 13th, 2008 at 10:54 pmSECONDLASTWISH: I think it’s great that you and other sex educators are pushing the bounds of healthy sexuality and taking sex ed beyond the “basics.” Unfortunately, I’m not sure if you’re the exception or the rule. Certainly, that type of sex ed wasn’t available to me, and I got most of my information, in no particular order, from: a) friends, b) The Loveline radio show, c) Tristan Taormino’s book on anal, d) Nerve.com and Em and Lo, and e) those BDSM novels Anne Rice wrote under a pseudonym before she started writing about vampires and way before she re-discovered Jesus. Most of that collective information came anywhere from five to ten years after I really needed it, but better late than never.
May 14th, 2008 at 11:27 amXORN: I totally agree. I think I didn’t express myself too clearly.
Maybe what I’m trying to say is that some of the tone of the article is that this is the new frontier of sex education, but it’s kind of missing out on the under 18 crowd who are having a lot of sex. And maybe not enjoying it as much as they could be or feeling shitty about themselves in general. The tone (and the chip on my shoulder) seemed to suggest that these two kinds of education are the same but different - I think they are different kinds of education all together.
I would venture to say that most sex educators (ab-only aside) have a special place in their heart for sex positive work - the limits and guidelines of education they actually provide are set by the communities they work in.
Duly noted that I’m from a progressive state so I might have warped perceptions.
(Loveline! Me too. We used to make up fake situations and get on the radio.Silly Dr. Drew and Poorman would always fall for it.)
May 14th, 2008 at 7:42 pmI’m reminded of the 2004 film “The Girl Next Door”, wherein the kid goes through with his idea of a “sexy sex ed” video and it sells very well because it keeps students attention.
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