Ellie: Sex Ed and Sex Work

Описание: Here's our latest video from Ellie, the executive director of @maggiestoronto and a long-time Black, sex worker, queer-feminist organizer within TO.

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In this storytelling video, Ellie discusses the need for designated sex educators and for greater attention to be paid to pleasure and boundaries within sex ed- echoing previous sentiments made by sex educator @samantha_bitty about teaching sexual education with focus and confidence, and about the importance of a pleasure based approach. Relatedly, Ellie also echoes similar remarks made by storyteller @anniebahra77 on having conversations with youth about "good touch" versus "bad touch" only.

However, in her video, Ellie draws from her wealth of experience with sex worker activism to make the astute point that the systematic failure to teach sexual education from an informed, pleasure based approach, can lead many youth to use porn to learn more about sex. There is nothing wrong with porn, but it is for advanced understandings of sex ed and not meant as an introductory resource.

This is something sex workers take seriously because they operate on the belief that consent driven, pleasure based approaches to sexual relationships are absolutely necessary-which is the same mindset that PK-12 sex ed so often fails to teach youth. Indeed, people often come to sex workers later in life to explore sex in a safe, controlled environment that is absent from normative (or normalized) sexual relations.

Watch Ellie's earlier videos on our grid!

In radical love,
Erotic Pedagogy

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