Shame, Sex Ed and Inclusive Sex Positivity with Jannette Davies

Doing It! with Hannah Witton

Global Media & Entertainment

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 651 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Hannah is joined by Jannette Davies, who is the founder of Sonder and Beam. Jannette discusses what led her to start Sonder and Beam, her African Christian upbringing, and how she went from learning about sex in a more conservative context to becoming someone whose job it is to encourage other people to talk more openly about sex. She and Hannah talk about the cultural differences around sex and dating between the western world and Sierra Leone, and inclusive sex positivity and having different sex positive values. Finally, Hannah and Jannette discuss how sex as a subject matter should be taken more seriously, as well as slut-shaming, the media, and Bridgerton. Hannah and Jannette also discuss FGM (female genital mutilation) - timestamps to skip this section if you need to are below.

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✨MORE ABOUT JANNETTE DAVIES✨
Hi, I am Jannette. I founded Sonder and Beam because I believe that everyone around the world deserves to be educated about their body and given the free choice to do what they please with it.

I love what the Sex Positive movement has achieved for women in the western world over the past few decades. Since ‘Me Too’, the conversation around female sex and sexuality has blown up and I am all for that. But there is so much more to do.

My mission in life is to create a space where females can speak freely, learn to understand themselves and others, and make their own free choices when it comes to how they live, how they identify, and what they choose to do with their bodies: without fear of violence, stigma or shame. I have seen that the women who make the most change in this world are those who support other women: even simply by listening and being present for one another. I founded Sonder & Beam to give women a way to do exactly that. Together we can change the conversation. Together, we can make a better world for every woman, everywhere.

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0:00.0	Born with 300 bones, 10,000 taste buds, and the ability to make you smile in an instant.
0:08.7	Babies development fascinates us. That's why SMA nutrition has been pioneering baby nutrition
0:14.8	research for over 100 years. We believe that breast milk is best for babies and breastfeeding should continue for as long as possible.
0:23.4	We also understand everyone's journey is different. SMA follow-on milk is for babies over six months
0:29.8	as part of a varied weaning diet, not intended to replace breastfeeding. SMA nutrition,
0:36.3	pioneering baby nutrition since 1919.
0:40.0	One of the things we're saying is that 90% of women and girls will experience FGM in
0:46.2	their lifetime is very much a cultural thing. It's very normal. So I remember like a few
0:50.8	years ago when I first found this out,
0:59.2	and I remember I came here and I was like a very Western mentality.
1:02.4	I was like, why are these people doing this, you know?
1:14.0	Welcome to Doing It with me, Hannah Witten, where we talk all things, sex, relationships, dating and our bodies.
1:20.6	Hello, dear listener, welcome back to Doing It.
1:25.7	Before I dive into this episode, I just wanted to let you know that we're taking a break next week,
1:28.0	a little mid-season break to go with the bank holiday Easter weekend because, you know, us freelancers and self-employed people need to learn
1:33.0	that we can take bank holidays off too. I actually now have the UK holidays calendar in my Google
1:39.5	calendar switched on because I always used to completely forget about bank holidays and work straight through
1:45.0	them, but not anymore. So yes, there will be no episode next week, but we will be back on Wednesday
1:51.7	the 14th of April. But on to this week's episode, today I'm chatting with Jeanette Davies,
1:58.4	the founder of Sonder and Beam, which is a community of women
2:01.5	and non-binary people, creating spaces to talk about sexuality, pleasure and relationships,
2:07.2	and they host loads of online events. We talk about what led Jeanette to start Sonder and
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