Welcoming our first ever guest to the Social Tea Podcast, my dear friend Payton, an educator of young minds, and I are talking about everyone’s favourite subject back in school - SEX ED!

I absolutely loved sex ed in school. Of course I was joking in that first line, but it genuinely was one of my favourite subjects. As my classmates would moan and groan, I would skip excitedly into the classroom and seat myself in the front row. 

Not unlike today, little unfiltered Aaron never shied away from asking the awkward questions, and that remained true as I proudly raised my hand to ask questions like, “why are female condoms so HUGE?!”

It has since become a long term goal of mine, if and when I achieve my masters in counseling psychology, to visit schools and be the most badass sex ed teacher EVER! I want to be moulding little minds, teaching them about safe, consensual, orgasmic, pleasure-based sexual education. 

So when I heard that Alberta might be rolling out a new curriculum that preached abstinence, a fire was lit under my ass like never before. 

Kids are consuming media that glorifies sexual activity, they have access to porn on their cellphones, and lets not pretend like all their friends aren’t talking about it... like all the time. 

 It is our job, as adults, parents, educators, to make sure these kids are having the RIGHT conversations. So why not start here!