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  • 7/4/2025
A documentary on the history of sex education | dG1fZXdOemRxNEpreFU
Transcript
00:00What can I do for you son?
00:04Dad?
00:06Could you tell me about sex?
00:10You want to know about sex?
00:16The only sex education that I remember had absolutely nothing to do with sex.
00:20I remember fallopian tubes and then something about the egg and the sperm
00:25and how they got together.
00:28It's funny because what is sex really and no one will tell you.
00:32Dad?
00:34Yes?
00:36Where do babies come from anyhow?
00:39When people in America hear the term sex education,
00:42they tend to think about plumbing lessons, organ recitals.
00:47Two ovaries, a pair of oviducts and two uterine horns.
00:51But nobody ever mentioned what that was for or why besides my body was changing.
00:57To grow hair down there and to grow bodies like a woman, it was petrifying.
01:03No hair.
01:06I was given proper sex education for the times to be the girl I was supposed to grow up to be.
01:13I was supposed to be split and repressed.
01:16There's such like shame attached with it that I didn't even want to learn about it because I was so embarrassed.
01:22You're not going to put this of somebody else's in yours.
01:28Don't call it sex education because it doesn't reveal all the facts.
01:32More than we really learned anything about sex itself, we learned every single sexual disease.
01:37There's never been a federal program to teach comprehensive sexuality education,
01:41which deals with everything about our sexuality as a whole.
01:44Families and relationships and sexual orientation and gender identities.
01:50We teach kids driver ed partly because we know that teenagers want to drive,
01:55but also because we know that people will drive a car for the rest of their lives.
01:59That's not what we think about with sex education, apparently.
02:03Yes, yes, I do think that there should be more sex in schools.
02:15More sex education in schools.
02:22Available now on iTunes.

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