Rethinking The Sex Talk
Fresh Air
NPR
4.4 • 34.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Fresh Air, I'm Terry Gross. |
| 0:02.4 | Our guest, Cory Silverberg, is a sex educator |
| 0:05.2 | who's the child of a children's librarian and a sex therapist |
| 0:08.7 | and identifies as queer. |
| 0:10.6 | Silverberg's books focus on sex education for kids. |
| 0:14.1 | Their latest book is geared toward young people hitting puberty |
| 0:17.6 | and their parents and caregivers. |
| 0:19.6 | Silverberg spoke with our guest interviewer, Tanya Mosley, |
| 0:22.8 | host of the podcast, Truth Be Told. |
| 0:25.5 | Here's Tanya with more. |
| 0:27.7 | How do you talk to kids about sex? |
| 0:30.4 | Better yet, how do you talk to yourself about it? |
| 0:33.1 | Cory Silverberg has spent much of their adult life |
| 0:36.0 | exploring what they call the complexity and beauty |
| 0:38.8 | of sex bodies in gender. |
| 0:41.1 | Silverberg's latest book, You Know Sex, |
| 0:43.9 | Body's Gender Puberty and Other Things, |
| 0:46.4 | is part of a trilogy which includes |
| 0:48.3 | what makes a baby and sex is a funny word. |
| 0:51.8 | These books are described as some of the first of their kind |
| 0:54.8 | to not only teach children about the basics of sex, |
| 0:57.6 | but also those stickier topics like how one's identity |
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