SEX(ED)
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Question: Did your interest in sex show up years before you were ready to ask an adult about it what it meant? Years before any real information was offered to you?
Curiosity and technology have worked together to expose kids to sexual content they’re too young to understand for quite some time. Let us not forget when Eminem so presciently tipped us off to this 17 years ago: "Of course they're gonna know what intercourse is, by the time they hit fourth grade, they've got The Discovery Channel, don't they?”
As a tenured teacher at the elementary level, I've gotta tell you: it’s 2018, if you’re old enough to spell sex, you’re old enough to see sex.
As the scope of available sexual content via technology continues to expand, the need for sanctioned, supplemental and thorough information must expand as well.
The CDC reports are dreadful: fewer than half of high schools and only a fifth of middle schools teach lessons on all 16 of the nationally recommended topics for sexual health education. Less than 40 percent of schools nationwide require sex and health education for graduation.
As an advanced, educated society, it is absolutely our job to match access to sexual content with access to thorough and adequate education. Students need more guidance than they are being given.
Biological sexual curiosity is closely linked to sexual action and sexual action without sexual education is extremely dangerous.
And by education, I don’t mean answering the question, “Where do babies come from?” because the system already does that...kind of, at some point...for a couple of days. What I’m interested in are sanctioned ways of thoroughly educating people about respect, consent, boundaries, harassment, how to engage with curiosity, how not to engage with curiosity, normalization of LGBTQ identities, acceptance, how to navigate complicated emotions, etc.
Early sex ed, ideally in an educational setting, is key to keeping young men and women healthy. We, as educators, have no more excuses.
I stepped out of the classroom to make a documentary called SEX(ED) which explores the updates needed regarding the way we educate our culture about sex in American schools. We'll have conversations with students, health teachers, administrators, medical professionals and adult products of the public school system in various fields to explore how their sex education helped and/or hindered them.
We’ll talk to the youth of today about how they’re engaging with sex via technology and in real life.
We’ll talk to people about how they educated themselves about sex.
We'll explore how the lack of education leads to real life problems by letting people tell us their stories.
We’ll explore the dangers of the lack of appropriate education and we'll talk to people who are leading the charge towards improvement and find ways to be a part of that charge ourselves.
Misinformation about sex has become a big problem for our culture to contend with, and education is at the core of the solution. I've gathered a supportive and talented team to complete this film with an attached goal of helping advance the system.
Contributing to this film represents that you agree that comprehensive sexual health will lead to a better, healthier, more productive society.
Help us, won't you?
Curiosity and technology have worked together to expose kids to sexual content they’re too young to understand for quite some time. Let us not forget when Eminem so presciently tipped us off to this 17 years ago: "Of course they're gonna know what intercourse is, by the time they hit fourth grade, they've got The Discovery Channel, don't they?”
As a tenured teacher at the elementary level, I've gotta tell you: it’s 2018, if you’re old enough to spell sex, you’re old enough to see sex.
As the scope of available sexual content via technology continues to expand, the need for sanctioned, supplemental and thorough information must expand as well.
The CDC reports are dreadful: fewer than half of high schools and only a fifth of middle schools teach lessons on all 16 of the nationally recommended topics for sexual health education. Less than 40 percent of schools nationwide require sex and health education for graduation.
As an advanced, educated society, it is absolutely our job to match access to sexual content with access to thorough and adequate education. Students need more guidance than they are being given.
Biological sexual curiosity is closely linked to sexual action and sexual action without sexual education is extremely dangerous.
And by education, I don’t mean answering the question, “Where do babies come from?” because the system already does that...kind of, at some point...for a couple of days. What I’m interested in are sanctioned ways of thoroughly educating people about respect, consent, boundaries, harassment, how to engage with curiosity, how not to engage with curiosity, normalization of LGBTQ identities, acceptance, how to navigate complicated emotions, etc.
Early sex ed, ideally in an educational setting, is key to keeping young men and women healthy. We, as educators, have no more excuses.
I stepped out of the classroom to make a documentary called SEX(ED) which explores the updates needed regarding the way we educate our culture about sex in American schools. We'll have conversations with students, health teachers, administrators, medical professionals and adult products of the public school system in various fields to explore how their sex education helped and/or hindered them.
We’ll talk to the youth of today about how they’re engaging with sex via technology and in real life.
We’ll talk to people about how they educated themselves about sex.
We'll explore how the lack of education leads to real life problems by letting people tell us their stories.
We’ll explore the dangers of the lack of appropriate education and we'll talk to people who are leading the charge towards improvement and find ways to be a part of that charge ourselves.
Misinformation about sex has become a big problem for our culture to contend with, and education is at the core of the solution. I've gathered a supportive and talented team to complete this film with an attached goal of helping advance the system.
Contributing to this film represents that you agree that comprehensive sexual health will lead to a better, healthier, more productive society.
Help us, won't you?
Organizer
Ani Easton Baker
Organizer
Glendale, CA
