sexual education
Ontario’s return to its 1998 sex-ed program will only harm students
Peak Web July 31, 2018Written by: Winona Young, Staff Writer I realized while growing up that sex positivity is a rarity in many places. I’ve picked up quite a bit of information by hanging around the “cool kids” who dabbled in alcohol, drugs, and sex. However, I felt that the best sex-positive education I got was from my uncomfortably comprehensive high school health classes, with their awkward diagrams, condom-clad bananas, and books about genitalia. I count myself lucky for receiving such a thorough education, and I’m thankful that holistic sex-ed curricula were accessible to students. This is why I am upset at Doug Ford’s…
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Sex ed. 101
EIC July 19, 2017Sex education is a topic with a lot of different responses. Some people got great sex ed. in high school. Some, like me, got six teenage boys who had to give a group presentation on the subject and ended up…
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