There's just like this sense, this feeling that they have way, like they're gonna find out.

I mean, that's how I remember feeling is like, you can look at me and see that I'm having sex.

This is Death, Sex, and Money.

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot,

and need to talk about more.

I'm Anna Sale.

Andrea was in the sixth grade when she had her first sex ed talk, like many sixth graders.

But for her, sex ed didn't happen at school.

It happened at her church, an evangelical congregation in Texas.

It wasn't quite Pentecostal, but there was definitely, you know, raising hands, people dancing,

and the aisles, ribbon dancers, all kinds, things like that.

What did you first learn about sex through your church?

That you should not have it until you're married.

There would be discussions about it at youth group, you know, waiting until marriage,

and what does that mean?

And, you know, I also attended true love weights conferences with my youth group.

What was that conference like?

It was kind of like a rally about purity, you know, and what does it mean to wait until marriage,

and you get a true love weights ring, and, you know, you sign a pledge,

saying that you won't have sex until you're married.

And I think I was 14 when I went to this.

And there were girls in boys there?

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