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  • 7/4/2025
A documentary on the history of sex education | dG1fVmoxVmw0bldVM2c
Transcript
00:00What can I do for you, son?
00:02Dad?
00:04Could you tell me about sex?
00:08You want to know about sex?
00:14The only sex education that I remember
00:16had absolutely nothing to do with sex.
00:18I remember fallopian tubes
00:20and then something about the egg
00:22and the sperm and
00:24how they got together.
00:26It's funny because what is sex, really?
00:28No one will tell you.
00:30Dad?
00:32Yes?
00:34Where do babies come from anyhow?
00:36When people in America hear the term sex education,
00:40they tend to think about
00:42plumbing lessons, organ recitals.
00:44Two ovaries,
00:46a pair of oviducts,
00:48and two uterine horns.
00:50Nobody ever mentioned what
00:52that was for or why
00:54besides my body was changing.
00:56To grow hair down there
00:58and to, you know,
01:00grow bodies like a woman,
01:02it was petrifying.
01:04Little hair.
01:06I was given proper sex education
01:08for the times,
01:10to be the girl I was supposed to grow up to be.
01:12I was supposed to be split
01:14and repressed.
01:16attached with it
01:18that I didn't even want to learn about it
01:20because I was so embarrassed.
01:22You're not going to put this
01:24of somebody else's
01:26in yours.
01:28Don't call it sex education
01:30because it doesn't reveal all the facts.
01:32More than we really learned anything about sex itself,
01:34we learned every single sexual disease.
01:36There's never been a federal program
01:37to teach comprehensive
01:38sexuality education,
01:39which deals with everything
01:40about our sexuality as a whole.
01:42Families and relationships
01:44and sexual orientation
01:46and gender identities.
01:48We teach kids driver ed
01:50partly because we know
01:51that teenagers want to drive,
01:52but also because we know
01:53that people will drive a car
01:54for the rest of their lives.
01:56That's not what we think about
01:58with sex education, apparently.
02:00Yes, yes, I do think
02:10that there should be more sex
02:12in schools.
02:14More sex education in schools.

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