How An Awful Chewed-Up Gum Analogy in Sex Ed Hurts People
Channel: Alex Zorach
Date: 09/06/2017

Hannah, a guest speaker, shares her story with sex education in a Delaware public school, and we discuss how a "used gum analogy" for virginity communicates misconceptions about sex, harms victims of rape and sexual assault, and pushes the "purity culture" on people by reinforcing the "damaged goods" view of people who have had sex. We call people to start talking openly about this issue, so that we can stop teaching kids such harmful messages, and promote more sex-positive and realistic views of sex in sex education classes.