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The Anatomy Lesson You Never Got

Come As You Are

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Porn Is Bad Sex Education

In real life, there's diversity. There is messiness. There are curious, surprising, funny, noisy, wet, sticky things that happen. I love it. The metaphor I often use is that learning about sex by watching porn is like learning about driving by watching NASCAR. That is not a representation of how sex actually works in real life. Most mainstream porn is really limited. Like there's only one right kind of body in porn. They very much value the long, thick, straight penis in porn as if that's the only erotic kind of penis there is. It is not. And now imagine if your high school sex ed class had shown the three chambers. Yeah. Exactly.

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