My earliest sex education didn’t even mention that sex felt good. I was reassured that it was all right to say no, but never offered a script for arriving at yes. Recently, I wrote an essay about dating older men when I was still in my teens. I was shocked, though I shouldn’t have been, […]
This originally appeared on Alternet.org. Republished here with permission. According to America’s moral scolds, sex is like used chocolate, backwash, and duct tape. Despite the fact that 95% of Americans have premarital sex, and that this has been true for decades, abstinence-only education continues to be taught in classrooms across the U.S. Abstinence programs have received $1.75 billion in […]
