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I'm your host Chris Duffy, and this is how to be a better human.

Today's episode is about sex, which I am not afraid to admit is slightly

uncomfortable for me to talk about. You can't see this, but I am already

blushing and I probably won't stop blushing until the end of this episode.

Despite that, I do have quite a bit of experience in talking about this because when I taught

fifth grade one of the strange de facto jobs that I also got thrown into was teaching health class.

And health class was supposed to just be like deodorant.

It's a thing. You need to wear some. And hair, it's a thing you're probably going to grow some. But of course because we had anonymous

question cards it ended up being a lot more about sex and sexuality. Every year that I taught it I would get some version of a question saying

how do you know what day puberty is going to happen? I love kind of that idea that it happens all at once

overnight that you like go to sleep as a boy and wake up and are like I'm a man here's my beard

Of course that's not how it happens I also got questions like is it normal to get a boner during math class?

Which made me think that maybe I was doing too good a job

of explaining long division?

And one particularly memorable question

asked me if it was true that there were three types of breasts, female breasts, man boobs, and chicken breasts,

which I had never thought about it that way, but there are at least three kinds of breasts, now you've convinced me.

One question that I really did not have an answer to and I three kinds of breasts, now you've convinced me.

One question that I really did not have an answer to, and I still don't,

is why does it sometimes feel so awkward to talk about sex?

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