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Who needs sex-ed in high schools when you can just have unprotected sex and learn the hard way?
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OK, let's go back to "the talk" you had with your parents back in 3rd grade.
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.
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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"Hey babe, did I tell you about my penis? Can I have your number? Thanks."
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.
