Education is not permission! Don’t you want your children to be autonomous, sexually fulfilled adults? Don’t you want your children to have successful and loving intimate relationships? Helping them to do so means being sex-positive. The phrase “sex-positive” in association with parenting is sometimes misunderstood as taking a permissive or “anything goes” approach to sexuality. …
Cheerleader. Champion. Supporter. Advocate. I want to invite you -- yes, you -- to put one of these words next to your name, like this: “ __________ (your name) is a champion.” Feels good, right? Now imagine if it said “__________ (your name) is a champion for comprehensive sexuality education.” How does that feel? Is …
My strongest memory of sex education at school was watching a water birth video. It was terrifying and didn’t really set up a good environment for learning about sex. I remember leaving the class with so many unanswered questions. Sexuality and relationship education plays an important role in developing a healthy relationship with sex. I …
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While processing health messaging as a young person, I was left alone to sift through blanketed euphemisms. I was taught that sex was bad and when it did happen, it happened to a body -- devoid of connection and pleasure. Though my relatively traditional Ghanaian mom wasn’t very open about bodies, she loved books and …
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