Reddit user iheartdna teaches sex ed for kids in "two different large public high schools, both very high-income, upper-middle-class areas of Virginia and California." Below are three years of some of the best anonymous questions her students have wrote in. Ah, the awkward adolescent memories...
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For those of you who don't know Alice Dreger here's a bit of background.
Alice Dreger is an acclaimed author and professor at Northwestern University's medical school. She wrote Galileo's Middle Finger, a bioethical book discussing her "activism against surgical 'correction' of intersex individuals' genitalia." She's also given a TED talk on human anatomy and why we let it define who we are. In short, Dreger knows her stuff.
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"Hey babe, did I tell you about my penis? Can I have your number? Thanks."
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OK, let's go back to "the talk" you had with your parents back in 3rd grade.
Ah, good 'ol sex ed: A profound cringe-tainted milestone on the teenage hormone-muddled path toward ultimate....enlightenment, blue balls, crippling sexual frustration, passive aggressive text break ups? f*ck if I know, dude. If anything these applause-worthy clueless questions perfectly demonstrate the terribly awkward nature of those classes; and how damn lost we all were. If you can top anything from this little roundtable discussion, then please, please, share.
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A Mississippi law passed in 2012 restricted teachers from teaching condom use in sex ed classes. In response, educator and education reform advocate Sanford Johnsondeveloped a simple (and pretty funny) workaround.
