"Terror-Based Sex Education"

[hyperskeptic]

This isn't about non-monogamy, as such, but about disinformation, sex-negativity and slut-shaming in high school sex-ed courses.

(Somewhere in the conversation on Twitter, someone refers to what happened in the classroom as "terror-based sex education.")

http://www.thestranger.com/features...ex-ed-class-and-i-was-shocked-by-what-i-heard

Note that Dreger is a historian of science specializing in matters related to sex and gender. She has a new book out, Galileo's Middle Finger, of which there is a review coming out in this Sunday's New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/b...dle-finger-by-alice-dreger.html?smid=tw-share

 

[kdt26417]

Ugh, how frustrating.

They're lucky one of the students was raised to challenge what the authority figure said.

 

[FallenAngelina]

No way could this have happened in Seattle, where The Stranger is published. Seattle Public School sex ed curriculum is nothing like what's described in the article. Sure enough, according to the comments it happened in Lansing, Michigan. Not sure how this was confirmed, but there it is.

 

[hyperskeptic]

No way could this have happened in Seattle, where The Stranger is published. Seattle Public School sex ed curriculum is nothing like what's described in the article. Sure enough, according to the comments it happened in Lansing, Michigan. Not sure how this was confirmed, but there it is.

It was in East Lansing, MI, which is where Dreger lives; that's all in the Twitter feed and in any number of stories about her and her work.

The story has now been taken up by USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ce-dreger-live-tweeted-sex-ed-class/25926883/

 

[Kate70410]

It is horrible that this type of "education" is occurring anywhere in the country in this day and age. I would be wild if I was a parent and my kids were taught this nonsense in school.