Dhru Purohit

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.

And so there are all these sort of myths about what makes sex satisfying that I'm trying to slowly dismantle and fill up their heads with the truth about what we know about sexuality in a very...

positive, honest, vulnerable, science-backed way.

I'm an educator, and I am a communicator, and what I love to do is take the research and translate it into a way that can be helpful to people, where it's better understood, and where it just gets out there in a way that feels accessible and not overwhelming.

Exactly.

Absolutely.

And I'm so glad you brought that up.

And so first of all, I want to say that, you know, obviously I am a very sex positive, open person, but I do have a little bit of beef with the sex positivity movement.

In essence, in some ways has sort of put forth this new standard of what it means to be sex positive and that if you are not...

a dominatrix, if you're not kinky, if you're not choking your partner in the bedroom, if you're not in an open relationship, that somehow you are not leading an evolved life, that you're not self-actualized.

And this is why in my hierarchy, when we get to the topics where I talk about those aspects,

It's, you know, I say you do not need to do any of these things to reach the top of this pyramid.

But Drew, I do think there's value in learning about them, right?