Dhru Purohit

It's pretty popular.

Although, to be fair, you know, it is sex.

It would I'd have to be doing a pretty bad job if it wasn't popular.

But it's 1,200 students a quarter, 700 in person, 500 online.

And so that means that one third of the University of Washington undergraduates takes my course.

And my perspective, right, I have a PhD in psychology.

And so my perspective in this class is that I need to be giving you what the research says, right?

So I am devouring journals like the Journal of Sexual Medicine, like the Archives of Sexual Behavior, the Journal of Sex Research, as well as going to conferences and talking to people who are at the absolute cutting edge in this field that many of us aren't getting access to, right?

That I think people need to hear from.

And if you look at sort of what's happening, I think, in the sexual space in general, it's a lot of people who are putting forth opinion that's not necessarily backed by science.

And what happens with that is when we teach people something based off of our opinions around a topic that is so stigmatized like sex, it just feeds forth a lot of misinformation.

And so I just, I feel like I'm here to dispel all of the myths and all of the misinformation that so often floods this space and really delivers sort of inadequate advice.

My class sort of pushes the limits because I'm talking not just about what you see, you know,

Sex education is not something that is federally mandated.

It's left up to the states.

And very few states are offering comprehensive sex-positive sex education that's truly covering all of the topics that are recommended by the CDC.

And so I find that students are coming into my classroom

just with a complete lack of knowledge, right?

They have the curiosity, but most of what they've learned about from sex is coming from porn, right?

Because they've grown up with online porn everywhere.