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A Sex-Positive Book to Teach Kids About Gender
08:17 - 24:25 (16:08)
Sex is a Funny Word is a sex education book for children that aims to teach them about gender and sexual diversity in an inclusive and age-appropriate way without relying on explicit descriptions or illustrations of sexual acts. The author, Cory Silverberg, uses they/them pronouns and challenges the notion of sex-positivity.
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Tina Horn discusses the term sex positivity with Silverberg who suggests a world free of normative pressures around sex and how they want to help make sex less difficult, as it often is.
08:17 - 12:42 (04:25)
Summary
Tina Horn discusses the term sex positivity with Silverberg who suggests a world free of normative pressures around sex and how they want to help make sex less difficult, as it often is. Silverberg shares their childhood experience as a sex therapist's child with access to sex education materials at Lovecraft, a sex toy store in North America.
ChapterA Sex-Positive Book to Teach Kids About Gender
EpisodeThe Sunday Read: ‘The Books About Sex That Every Family Should Read’
PodcastThe Daily
Author and sex educator Cory Silverberg discusses the importance of creating a sex education book for children with LGBTQ-inclusive terminology and content that is accessible to families of all kinds.
12:42 - 17:55 (05:13)
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Author and sex educator Cory Silverberg discusses the importance of creating a sex education book for children with LGBTQ-inclusive terminology and content that is accessible to families of all kinds. They also delve into the history and challenges of the genre.
ChapterA Sex-Positive Book to Teach Kids About Gender
EpisodeThe Sunday Read: ‘The Books About Sex That Every Family Should Read’
PodcastThe Daily
The children's book "Sex is a Funny Word" is among the least explicit when it comes to the mechanics of sex, focusing on precepts of sexual liberalism, gender and sexual inclusivity, and frank discussion of anatomy and pleasure, while yoking discussions of sexuality to discussions of conception, gestation, and birth.
17:55 - 20:47 (02:52)
Summary
The children's book "Sex is a Funny Word" is among the least explicit when it comes to the mechanics of sex, focusing on precepts of sexual liberalism, gender and sexual inclusivity, and frank discussion of anatomy and pleasure, while yoking discussions of sexuality to discussions of conception, gestation, and birth.
ChapterA Sex-Positive Book to Teach Kids About Gender
EpisodeThe Sunday Read: ‘The Books About Sex That Every Family Should Read’
PodcastThe Daily
The latest addition to the Sex is a Funny Word series covers much more factual information about reproductive biology, anatomy, birth control, and sexual assault in discussions about body changes, gender, and sexual decision making.
20:47 - 24:25 (03:38)
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The latest addition to the Sex is a Funny Word series covers much more factual information about reproductive biology, anatomy, birth control, and sexual assault in discussions about body changes, gender, and sexual decision making. The book also devotes dozens of pages to boundaries and consent, illustrated with comics of variously gendered young people.