What is “Body positive sex positive sex education”?
Sex can be one of the most fun, powerful, magical and empowering parts of your life.
It can also be one of the most confusing, frustrating, painful and even traumatic parts.
The key to having the former experience over the latter is education. Education that informs and empowers is vital to ensure our children have positive sexual experiences.
It is likely when you were a teen yourself your sex education was:
silent
uninformed
fearbased
focused on preventing pregnancy and stis
Unfortunately not much has changed and most school based sex ed programs are limited in that they are teaching your children the very basics, and often with the focus on prevention rather than pleasure.
Body positive and sex positive sex education focuses on pleasure as much as safety:
Pleasure anatomy (as opposed to reproductive anatomy) is taught, so that your daughter will learn to know her own body and its potential for pleasure (rather than relying on someone else to give her pleasure).
Body positive and sex positive sex education focuses on diversity:
There is a focus on how unique we all are both physically, and biochemically in terms of how we look, and also how we feel - especially with regards to gender and sexuality. This is important with regards to mainstream media depictions of both.
Body positive and sex positive sex education focuses on body automony:
The subtleties of consent and coercion are discussed in depth. When we feel empowered around our own body and its boundaries we are less likely to allow others to cross those boundaries.