In this episode, Dylan and Manny chat about sex education with Dr. Kristen Mark. Kristen is the Joycelyn Elders Endowed Chair in Sexual Health Education and a tenured Professor at University of Minnesota Medical School. She is the Director of Education in the Institute for Sexual and Gender Health in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, and also an Affiliate Research Faculty at the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University.
In light of some recent political controversies involving how we teach about sex and gender in K-12 schools, Kristen schools us about what sex education actually is, who supports it and why, other ways to teach kids and teenagers about sex outside of the classroom, and cultural differences in attitudes toward sex.
Kristen Mark’s webpage & publications
SIECUS (Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States)
