Sexual Programming

LGBTQ's Grip on U.S. Education: A sidebar to Cruel & Unusual

Christopher Culp, a Washington, D.C.-area sexual health educator, criticizes sex-ed as it's usually taught because it isn't inclusive enough. The problem, as he explained in a TED Talk titled "Queer sex ed for all," is that it's based on the notion that sex is about reproduction, but the reproductive model of male + female = baby "doesn't fit everybody." If "penis and vagina" sex is assumed to be the norm, he said, then "we don't get to talk about a whole lot of other sexual acts, the whole spectrum." He didn't elaborate on what other sex acts he wanted to talk to kids about, but he did note that he himself is gay, and that he doesn't want to reproduce. "I have...