Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Via lostgrrrls:sarahinsanfrancisco:redlightpolitics: “Sex Talk” A comic about communication, consent and getting it on. Click on the link to check out the other two parts and on the photo for a larger version. I’m interrupting your regularly scheduled photography program to bring you this lovely piece of work.   Seeing as I’m a communications major/gender and sexuality studies minor, have worked for a year teaching health and sex education in high school classrooms, and consider this realm to be among those I care most deeply about, this comic makes me all kinds of happy.  Beyond the basic STD and birth control facts, though, (if schools even cover that) these types of issues are NEVER discussed. And given the peer pressure we face at all ages (especially in middle and high school) born from societal and gendered expectations, this fact baffles me. For whatever reason we expect adolescents (and let’s face it, adults) to understand their wants and needs and how to communicate these appropriately without giving them the tools to do it. Or rather, I suppose in our “sex = taboo” society I guess we expect people to not have these urges or issues at all, until they’re married, when they’ll then magically understand how to do everything.  Which is utter horseshit, obviously. So we don’t teach kids how to communicate about these issues, and these kids then grow into adults who also don’t know how to communicate about these issues, and these adults then get into dysfunctional and unsatisfying relationships, do things they aren’t ready for, don’t know how to talk about the things they are ready for, have unpleasant sexual experiences as a result, and it doesn’t have to be this way.  Or all that to say: It’s time we started communicating about communication, damnit!  YES! Yes, yes, yes, consent is a turn on!

Via lostgrrrls:sarahinsanfrancisco:redlightpolitics:

“Sex Talk”

A comic about communication, consent and getting it on. Click on the link to check out the other two parts and on the photo for a larger version.

I’m interrupting your regularly scheduled photography program to bring you this lovely piece of work.  

Seeing as I’m a communications major/gender and sexuality studies minor, have worked for a year teaching health and sex education in high school classrooms, and consider this realm to be among those I care most deeply about, this comic makes me all kinds of happy. 

Beyond the basic STD and birth control facts, though, (if schools even cover that) these types of issues are NEVER discussed. And given the peer pressure we face at all ages (especially in middle and high school) born from societal and gendered expectations, this fact baffles me. For whatever reason we expect adolescents (and let’s face it, adults) to understand their wants and needs and how to communicate these appropriately without giving them the tools to do it. Or rather, I suppose in our “sex = taboo” society I guess we expect people to not have these urges or issues at all, until they’re married, when they’ll then magically understand how to do everything.  Which is utter horseshit, obviously.

So we don’t teach kids how to communicate about these issues, and these kids then grow into adults who also don’t know how to communicate about these issues, and these adults then get into dysfunctional and unsatisfying relationships, do things they aren’t ready for, don’t know how to talk about the things they are ready for, have unpleasant sexual experiences as a result, and it doesn’t have to be this way. 

Or all that to say: It’s time we started communicating about communication, damnit! 

YES! Yes, yes, yes, consent is a turn on!

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    I would just like to point out: Abstinent Vampires. That is all.
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    Thinking back, I can’t fucking believe we never talked about or even mentioned consent in sex ed. Fuck.
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    so much fuck yes
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    can we roleplay abstinent vampires?
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    “Sex Talk” A comic about communication, consent and getting it on. Click on the link to check out the other two parts...
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