ABSTRACT
I am a 21-year-old sexually active African woman living in the United States of America. I grew up thinking I had a relatively comprehensive sexual education experience since I lived in a Loudoun County Public Schools district (the second-best public school district in the country). In addition to that, in high school, when most young Americans received their sex-education by a gym teacher who transformed into a sex education teacher for a mere day or two, I had a professional “educator of sex” come in and spew facts at me and my classmates. Looking back, perhaps the 75-year-old woman who came to my health class and terrified me by stating that, in Virginia, it was illegal to have premarital sex, was not exactly a “professional.” Nonetheless, where there were holes in my education, I had the internet to turn to. The magical “internet” which my generation was fortunate enough to grow up with allowed me to explore the crazy notion of “sex” completely free from the discomfort of asking a “stupid question.” However, the internet sometimes lies, or puts forth certain things as undeniable truths that are not even remotely true.
