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Netflix’s Sex Education is doing sex education better than most schools

• dsnr 5y ago
  Alternative title: Netflix’s Sex Education is pushing the woke agenda better than most schools.
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• jfengel 5y ago
  Well, that is kind of the point of the show. Even the best sex education classes fail to grapple with actual people having sex. And that's before you get into the downright harmful ones like abstinence-only. (I had assumed that abstinence-only was just a US idiocy, until I saw it depicted on the show.) Actual sex education would be really difficult to teach. You can't teach intimacy or pleasure through a lecture. You can't communicate all of the many, many ways there are to have a healthy sex life without showing people doing it. And people will be embarrassed because they've all been brought up to think that these are private things, so there's no way to talk about them in public. If the show fails, it's in the fact that it's easy to criticize the way we teach without really depicting what a proper sex education structure would look like. It's obvious that we need to do away with abstinence-only; that's just clearly idiotic. We also need to move beyond the sex-education-as-reproductive-biology class, which is what I got. It would be great if we could all have a private therapist, but that seems unlikely. At the very least, it would be good to have an honest discussion of assault and consent. I don't know what that looks like in schools now; I gather it's better than when I was in high school but not nearly good enough.