Gonads: Sex Ed

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History, Science, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Society & Culture

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, an edited down version of a Radiolab Presents: Gonads Live show, host Molly Webster brings together a cast of storytellers, educators, artists, and comedians to grapple with sex ed in unexpected and thoughtful ways. "Sex Ed" is an edited recording of a live event hosted by Radiolab at the Skirball Center in New York City on May 16, 2018. Radiolab Team Gonads is Molly Webster, Pat Walters, and Rachael Cusick, with Jad Abumrad. Live music, including the sex ed questions, and the Gonads theme song, were written, performed, and produced by Majel Connery and Alex Overington. Radiolab is supported in part by Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation initiative dedicated to engaging everyone with the process of science. And the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, enhancing public understanding of science and technology in the modern world. More information about Sloan at www.sloan.org. Support Radiolab today at Radiolab.org/donate.

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0:00.0	Before we get started, just a note, this episode contains some strong language, as well as content that may not be suitable or at least ready for younger ears.
0:12.8	It is an episode about sex ed.
0:14.9	Okay, thanks.
0:16.5	Wait, you're listening.
0:17.6	Okay.
0:18.9	All right.
0:19.9	Okay.
0:21.5	All right. You're listening. Okay. All right. Okay. All right.
0:22.9	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:25.9	Radio Lab.
0:26.3	From W. N. Y.
0:28.4	C.
0:29.3	See?
0:29.6	Yeah.
0:29.7	Hey?
0:29.7	Yeah. Hey, I'm Molly Webster.
0:39.0	This is GONADS episode six, and it's our last episode.
0:44.0	I'm going to go cry after this is done, but first, I want to share with you this really
0:50.8	fun thing that Team Gonads did in May. And that is we did a live event on
0:58.5	sex ed. You know, if you've been listening to this series, we have been looking at the biology
1:04.6	of biological sex and sex determination. And one of the things we kept thinking was like,
1:10.7	man, now that we know how complicated it is, like, how do we teach this stuff? And how do we teach this stuff in a climate where people are really polarized and divided? In thinking about all this, sex ed, it just felt like more than a radio story. You know,
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