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Losing It: Sex Education for the 21st Century
Losing It Sex Education for the 21st Century Author:Sophia Smith Galer Sex: It brings us pleasure and pain. It shapes our sense of self, frames how others see us and can even destroy lives. Yet our sex education fails to prepare us for this reality, leaving millions of people misled, misinformed and subscribing to a wide range of sex myths that deny us the sexual freedoms we've been promised. — Misinformation ab... more »out sex can turn people's lives upside down, as it did for award-winning journalist Sophia Smith Galer, who grew up feeling clueless when it came to her own anatomy and first sexual encounters. But instead of receiving the information she needed, Sophia was exposed to false and damaging stories which ultimately left her needing medical treatment.
In Losing it Sophia investigates how people's lives have been radically affected by sex myths; from women paying thousands to reconstruct their hymens, to online communities of men worried that their sexual inexperience defines them. Sophia shares these intimate stories and reveals the lasting harm that these ideas have upon our health and happiness.
We need a new sex education, one which is based on fact rather than fiction. Losing It debunks our sex myths and empowers us to imagine what a world of genuine sexual freedom might look like.« less