What Are the Kids Calling It These Days?

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What Are the Kids Calling It These Days?

A glossary of slang we’ve gotten from students recently

One of the joys of teaching is how much you learn from your students, and sex-ed class is a great place for a rich vocabulary exchange. Sometimes they’re testing us; sometimes it’s to make their classmates laugh. Fortunately urbandictionary.com provides a wealth of resources for cracking the code and showing the youths that yeah, we know a thing or two. Read on for some of the new terms we’ve seen most often in the past few months–mostly from 7th, 8th, and 9th graders–and the “teachable moments” they’ve offered.

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The Questions Students Are Asking — and why they’re important! By Guest Blogger Sam Joson

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The Questions Students Are Asking — and why they’re important! By Guest Blogger Sam Joson

More Than Sex-Ed gives students the opportunity to ask questions anonymously after each class session. Sure, there’s always a fair number of troll questions, but most of them truly show the different ways young people are learning to move through the world. Below, we explore the kinds of questions students are asking by grade level and why it’s important to pay attention to what they want to know.

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Spotlight on Our Shift to Online Learning

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Spotlight on Our Shift to Online Learning

When our school clients switched to remote-learning in the spring, we, like so many other educators, figured out a brand new way to teach.

We’ve learned about so many online tools for teaching, but thankfully lots of the familiar elements of our workshops are part of our e-learning program, and a lot of the questions from kids are reassuringly the same. Teens are wondering about body parts and media messages and masturbation and just what exactly causes a pregnancy, or wondering if they can make their sex-ed teacher laugh. (They often can. One of the perks of the job). But some questions we’ve never had to answer before: one young person asked “will I ever have a first kiss because of covid?”

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"It's Sex Ed!?! And MY Kids?!?"

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"It's Sex Ed!?! And MY Kids?!?"

Right now there’s a bunch of misinformation traveling through Californian parenting circles about what our state actually requires regarding sex-ed in schools.

 We get it. What other topic causes this kind of gnarly gut twisting parental discomfort?

But at More Than Sex-Ed we take our mission to support parents and guardians in their role as primary sexuality educators for their children very seriously. We recognize the widely varying perspectives parents have regarding sexuality and values.

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From a Class on Consent, a Moment to Treasure

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From a Class on Consent, a Moment to Treasure

One boy in the circle had a deeply thoughtful expression on his face. 

 Eyebrows knit together, he raised his hand.

“So . . . if you ask somebody if they want to have sex, and they say no . . . can you still say, like, ‘ok, do you want to cuddle?’ Like, is that okay?”

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