ABSTRACT
The author relates that the "talk" for her came when was in the middle of learning about puberty at school. There had been minimal discussion on sex with her mother or father. The author talks about JD, whom she met in her 10th grade, but sex with JD was not satisfactory, as she never learned about consent, or that she could always say no, no matter what. A few years into college, she joined the Sexual Health and Assault Peer Educators. In college, she switched her senior thesis from medical errors to research about comprehensive sex education in America. She says that comprehensive sexuality education addresses how to build healthy relationships and recognize and address signs of dating violence, discusses the confusing language around sex, encourages conversations between adults and teens, and a lot more. Through community-wide and systemic changes in how we educate, and who we educate, a world of change can be made.
