Human Reproduction: Stories about how we learn about sex
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, we share two stories about adventures in sex education.
Part 1: Kate Willet is frustrated by the gaps of information in her abstinence-based sex ed class.
Part 2: Sex ed instructor Charlie Blake fields an unexpected question from a student.
Kate Willett is a comedian, actress, and writer whose raunchy feminist storytelling is both smart and relatable. Her 15 minute special premiered on Netflix’s “Comedy Lineup” in August 2018. She was recently a correspondent for the JIM JEFFERIES SHOW at Politicon 2017. She’s been featured on Viceland’s FLOPHOUSE and her appearance on Comedy Central’s THIS IS NOT HAPPENING was on Splitsider’s list of “2016’s Best Late Night Standup Sets.” In the past, she toured with Margaret Cho nationally and internationally and has featured with comedians like Kyle Kinane, Jen Kirkman, Ali Wong, Dana Gould, and Greg Behrendt. She has appeared in the Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival, Limestone Comedy Festival, High Plains, Big Sky Festival, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, San Francisco Sketchfest (5 years in a row), and most recently Laughing Skull. Earlier this year she was a “Comic to Watch” at the LA RIOT festival.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.0 | I felt... |
| 0:07.0 | I was so... |
| 0:09.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:13.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey, everybody. Hey everybody, welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
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| 0:50.0 | Today's episode is about adventures in sex education. |
| 0:57.1 | Our first story is from comedian Kate Willett. |
| 1:04.5 | It was recorded in the before times in May 2019 at our 9th anniversary show at Caviot in New York City. Hello. Hello, you guys. |
| 1:16.2 | Give it up for Erin and Tracy. |
| 1:17.9 | Make some noise. |
| 1:21.5 | So I grew up in a very conservative area north of Los Angeles, kind of a suburban town, where we had abstinence education. |
| 1:31.3 | So pretty regularly, like for every year of high school, |
| 1:35.3 | they would explain to us that abstinence was the only way |
| 1:39.3 | to prevent pregnancy. |
| 1:41.3 | And as a young bisexual person, |
| 1:44.1 | I knew for sure that that wasn't true. |
| 1:49.4 | This was a big theme. |
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