'The sex education I received can be summed up with three words: prevention, fear and shame.'
Imagine this: A young person walks in to a health care provider’s office armed with the knowledge they need and deserve about their bodies, their sexual lives and their choices. They are empowered and knowledgeable. Their diverse lives and backgrounds are centered. And their experience isn’t exceptional—it’s typical.
Policymakers in Alabama prioritized preventing pregnancy and shaming rather over teaching us about our bodies or centering our experiences and our empowerment. The sex education I received ironically barely talked about sex, and most certainly didn’t talk about pleasure, boundaries, consent or even how to recognize healthy and unhealthy sexual and romantic relationships and behaviors.
discuss sex and reproductive justice. She said something that I’ve remembered since: “In our society we don’t talk about sex, and because we don’t talk about sex we certainly don’t talk about pleasure.”
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