Category: Sexual Education

Inclusive Sex Education as Sexual Violence Prevention

Julia Kopala February 21, 2024 0 Comments
I was fourteen when I first was sexually assaulted. I had not received any sex education as it pertains to healthy relationships, consent, or participating in medically safe sex, nor any information or insight into what a healthy, loving, and safe sexual relationship looked like. I do not think that my assailant, who was the same age as me, had received any either. We lived in a rural area and...

A Systemic Form of Sexual Violence: Survival Sex

Julia Kopala May 5, 2022 0 Comments
When we talk about sexual violence, we usually discuss the most overt forms, such as rape, but there are complex forms of sexual violence that function on a societal level. Survival sex is a prime example of a form of sexual violence caused by how inaccessible economic stability and housing are in our society. It is important to emphasize that survival sex is also a direct result of homophobia...

Fanfiction, Porn, and Other Forms of Sex-Ed

Laura Browne May 24, 2021 0 Comments
Let’s talk about sex-ed. Or rather, let’s talk about my own personal experience with sex-ed. (Who knows? Maybe we’ve got something in common.) My school district didn’t offer students a genuine, in depth sex-ed course until high school health class. Here’s the funny thing--we had health classes through most of middle school too, but I only remember sex being brought up vaguely in...