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Comprehensive sex education is so beautiful, and education is empowering, and it's so effective that it delays sexual activity by around two years when we see students

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Welcome to the deconstructionist podcast.

I am your host, John Williamson, and we are back with part two of our two-part series on sex and sexuality. We're back with a different perspective this week. This one is brought to you by Brenda Marie Davies, our special guest this week. She's also a podcaster and an author. She just had a book that came out called On Her Knees Memoir of a Prayerful Jezebel. It's a fantastic book, oftentimes hard to read, I think, because it's

very raw. It is very truthful and honest and raw, and it's a portrayal of things that were, uh, that she went through that

were very real and at times, uh, hard to, hard to stomach, you know. And, uh, she's not alone,

though. These things happen, uh, to women, young women, uh, all over the world all the time. And so,

um, eye opening in many ways, but, uh, but I, I applaud her for, for her honesty and her

rawness and the truth that she, she put out there in this book. But very different perspective.

Um, and, uh, and again, uh, I wanted to present kind of two angles on it. And so, uh,

hopefully you enjoy the conversation that we had. You find it helpful.

Again, the book is fantastic. Can't recommend it enough. Go out and check it out. So what else do we

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