Comments on: What was sexuality education like for you? http://blog.iwhc.org/2011/08/what-was-sexuality-education-like-for-you/ Standing Strong for a Woman's Right to a Just and Healthy Life Fri, 31 May 2013 14:26:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: anonymous http://blog.iwhc.org/2011/08/what-was-sexuality-education-like-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-5039 anonymous Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:54:41 +0000 http://blog.iwhc.org/?p=5545#comment-5039 We didn't get "sexuality" education – we got "sex" ed: all mechanics, all biology. First round, they separated us by gender and told us about menstruation and basic "where babies come from." Five years later, we had co-ed sex-ed. More details on "where babies come from" and the mechanics of the male sexual organs. (because who cares about women's sexual organs, orgasm, pleasure, etc., right?) oh and some basic mechanics of pregnancy. almost nothing on STDs (that's what they were called). This was just as AIDS/HIV was becoming a public health threat, and it was still a "gay disease." (makes me queasy just to type that awful phrase.)

Absolutely nothing on consent, rape, gender, transgender, LBTQQIAA (most of the terms didn't even exist then), female autonomy and pleasure, sexual intimacy, sexual acts other than female-male intercourse. We did get a nod toward abstinence though!

Sheesh! no wonder I've struggled with sexuality.

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