Better Sex Talk

05/01/2019

Wondering what parents can do to support comprehensive s*xuality education?

Here are six ways to help teens grow into s*xually healthy adults:

It might feel counterintuitive, but parents who want to help teens grow into s*xually healthy adults are going to need to step up to the plate.

04/29/2019

"We are sewing the seeds of s*xual violence and acting surprised when those seeds bloom."

Shame-based s*x education is unacceptable—and dangerous.

Abstinence-only s*x ed is taught in 37 of the 50 states – and it often utilizes a slew of metaphors to scare kids away from premarital s*x

02/18/2019

LGBTQ+ youth deserve to see themselves in their education. Period.

At 13, Chris Angel Murphy left an abusive home and entered Los Angeles’s foster care system. “I was struggling with thinking about su***de, I was trying to figure out my s*xuality,” Murphy said.

02/17/2019

“S*x can be a lot of fun. It can also be weird—confusing, disappointing, embarrassing, or emotionally fraught.”

Presidents Day weekend plans: binge-watching S*x Education 🙌🏽

“I think we’ve failed epically to prepare young people for the tender, subtle, courageous work of learning how to love someone else.”

02/16/2019

“Regardless of how much or how little their parents talked to them about s*x, most Latinxs felt they needed more information and searched for answers elsewhere.”

In many Latinx families, the birds and the bees talk is more of a whisper and less an actual conversation that is as detailed and informative as a good chisme session. Many parents avoid this potentially awkward, but extremely important talk, and because of this, generations of Latinxs feel they did...

12/17/2018

"S*x ed sucks. We need an update."

*snaps aggressively*

S*x Ed needs an update.

04/13/2018

"If we want to stop our pervasive culture of s*xual assault, education needs to go a lot further than just preventing pregnancy and STDs." -Nicole Cushman, ED of Answer

We agree!

12/26/2017

"If we want to prevent r**e from becoming even more common in our society, one of the first things that needs to change is the communication about s*x that occurs at a young age."

"Many abstinence-only programs instill fear and shame."

08/22/2017

Sound familiar?

It's healthy to ask questions. Check out Planned Parenthood's resources for medically accurate answers: http://bit.ly/2vb0Cao

Well done everyone.

08/14/2017

S*x is not a competition. It's not a race. Take the time to understand what it is that you want & communicate honestly with your partner about expectations.

*xTalk *xEd *xeducation

08/05/2017

"Who you have s*x with does not define who you are." *xTalk

Kaitlyn, Bport Raising the BARS

08/03/2017

Did you know that some laws require teachers to actively portray LGBTQ people in a negative or inaccurate way?

Learn more from GLSEN: http://bit.ly/2uM4Asw

The only thing s*x ed taught me about gay people was that we weren’t supposed to exist.