So Many Sex Ed Fails

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Podcasts

Business, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Careers, Relationships, Sexuality

4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

You have a limited number of orgasms in life. Your penis will fall off if you get an infection. Kissing will get you pregnant. We asked you to share your "sex ed fails"—and you all had a lot to say. This episode is part of our month-long series called Our Sex (Mis)Educations. Find the entire series here. Do you have a photo that sums up a big workplace transition for you? We want to see it! Send it to [email protected] or put it on Instagram with the hashtag #dsmatwork. See the photos we've collected so far @deathsexmoney on Instagram. Sign up for our newsletter! Every Wednesday we send out podcast listening recommendations, fascinating letters from our inbox and updates about the show. We also let our subscribers know about upcoming live events and ways you can contribute your stories to Death, Sex & Money. Sign up at deathsexmoney.org/newsletter. Want to tell us something? Email us any time at [email protected].

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0:00.0	Any other subject, no one would stand for teaching kids. I don't know that like the earth is flat or pie is exactly three or something like that.
0:10.0	It's wild how bad my sex education was.
0:17.0	This is death, sex, and money.
0:20.0	I thought that there was something wrong with me.
0:22.0	The show from WNYC about the things we think I thought that there was something wrong with me.
0:23.0	The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.
0:26.0	Abstinence only was the name of the game.
0:28.0	And need to talk about more.
0:30.0	We do kids an enormous disservice.
0:33.0	I'm Anna Sale.
0:35.0	Last week we released an episode about a listener named Andrea,
0:41.0	who has spent a lot of her adult life trying to unlearn the things
0:45.0	she was taught about sex growing up and she's not the only one. A lot of you found
0:51.1	your sex education lacking.
0:54.0	My sex ed fails.
0:55.0	Sex ed fails.
0:58.0	When we asked for your stories, you told us about things you wish you hadn't learned.
1:02.0	But you had a limited number of things. about things you wish you hadn't learned.
1:02.6	But you had a limited number of orgasms in life.
1:07.6	You also told us about things you wish you'd known sooner.
1:10.5	I had no concept that there was motion involved. I just thought it was like
1:15.1	insert, release seaman and then you're done. For a lot of you your sex ed fails
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