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Doing It! with Hannah Witton

How to Raise Sexually Healthy Children with Melissa Pintor Carnagey

Doing It! with Hannah Witton

Global Media & Entertainment

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture

4.8651 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Hannah is joined by Melissa Pintor Carnagey, who is a licensed social worker, sexuality educator, and the founder of Sex Positive Familes. Melissa discusses what Sex Positive Families is and what they do, and also her own personal sexual health journey from being raised in a Catholic family to running a sex-positive organisation. She and Hannah talk about what it means to raise sexually healthy children, and some of the damaging myths surrounding sex education. Finally, Hannah and Melissa discuss examples of how to answer surprising questions from children, and how to build trust with the young people in our lives.

✨MORE ABOUT SEX POSITIVE FAMILIES✨
Melissa Pintor Carnagey (she/they) is the founder of Sex Positive Families. She is an Austin-based licensed social worker, sexuality educator, and parent of three. Sex Positive Families provides parents and caring adults with the education, resources, and support to raise sexually healthy children using a shame-free, comprehensive, and pleasure-positive approach. Find out more here:

Sex Positive Families: https://sexpositivefamilies.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sexpositive_families/
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0:00.0

At Halford's, we want you to say yes to packing more into summer days with a great value roofbox or bike rack.

0:06.3

Say yes to freewheeling fun with bikes and gear for all the family.

0:10.5

Say yes to a perfectly polished car with our range of car cleaning products.

0:14.7

And say yes to easy, breezy trips with a free aircon check.

0:18.7

Our experts are on hand with checks, advice and fitting. So pop into

0:22.3

your local store or shop online and say yes to summer at Halford's. Subject to availability,

0:28.2

see Harvest.com for Fulties and Seas. I would never want a young person to be experimenting

0:34.4

in a less informed way to where they receive the message or get the impression

0:39.2

that sex has to be painful, that it has to be unpleasant, that it has to be forced, that it has

0:45.2

to be non-consensual.

0:50.5

Welcome to Doing It with me, Hannah Witten, where we talk all things, sex, relationships, dating and our bodies.

1:02.2

Hey everyone, welcome back to doing it. I am so excited for this week's episode. I'm a big fan of this guest. I have been following her

1:15.3

Instagram account for ages and just been learning so much stuff from it and pretty sure I've

1:22.0

been recommending it left, right and center whenever I get the opportunity to. And that is the Sex Positive Families Instagram account, which is run by Melissa Pintore

1:33.5

Carnegie.

1:34.6

In this episode, Melissa talks about what sex positive families is, what they do, and how she

1:41.7

got to where she is on her own personal sexual journey

1:45.3

from a Catholic upbringing to running a sex positive organisation.

1:50.6

We talked about a lot of the myths surrounding sex education and children

1:55.2

and actually why it is a good and positive and necessary thing,

2:01.7

what it means to raise sexually healthy children and what that looks like.

2:07.4

How do you have conversations with your kids about sex positions, about orgasms?

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