The famed sex educator spent her career championing sex education in Canada, and earned a Laurentian University honourary doctoratre in the process
Sue Johanson was a champion of reliable sex education in this country at a time when talking about sex in public was far from OK.
She said she's always been very comfortable talking frankly about sexual health, but she would have to behave herself at the convocation ceremony.After she became a nurse, she heard about a birth control clinic that had been set up on a high school campus in Sweden – and she wondered why there was no such thing in Canada.
With such a tight budget, she had to “beg and borrow” equipment, and raided the local hospital for supplies. “It was me, Van Halen and Guns n' Roses,” she said. “I was answering questions and I loved it … I took to radio like a duck to water.”
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