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I hate when people- including asexuals- say "sex ed shouldn't be required". I've seen it so much.

Sexual education isn't perfect. It focuses on primarily or entirely male-female intercourse. Obviously it's flawed.

But everyone should go through it at some point.

There are so many issues with the "asexuals don't need sex ed" sentiment.

I'll go through a few of them here.

Acespec erasure. Asexual does not mean "I will never have sex or have to do anything with my genitals". It means a lack of sexual attraction. The sentiment erases all sex-favourable, sex-neutral, etc asexuals. I am a sex-favourable asexual.

Sex ed does not mean "how to have sex 101". It is to do with sexual intercourse, bodies, illnesses, etc. Whether you want to have sex or not, you need to know how to take care of your genitals. Bodily care is part of sex ed.

Anything can happen. I repeat, anything can happen. If an asexual is raped, sexually assaulted, has sex at all, changes their mind and decides they're not asexual later in life, you need to know how to deal with that. I do not want to invalidate asexual teenagers. I trust them with their identities. However. There is no guarantee that all asexual teens will turn into asexual adults. Hormones are strange and can easily affect that stuff. And there's no way to know if your identity will always be what it is. I've seen asexual teens be allo adults, and allosexual teens be ace adults.

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based on this tiktok:

I ask my students every week to write 10 observations of the actual world. It’s very hard for them.

Ms. Tippett:

Really?

Ms. Howe:

They really find it hard.

Ms. Tippett:

What do you mean? What is the assignment? 10 observations of their actual world?

Ms. Howe:

Just tell me what you saw this morning like in two lines. I saw a water glass on a brown tablecloth, and the light came through it in three places. No metaphor. And to resist metaphor is very difficult because you have to actually endure the thing itself, which hurts us for some reason.

Ms. Tippett:

It does.

Ms. Howe:

It hurts us.

Ms. Tippett:

You naming something.

Ms. Howe:

We want to say, “It was like this; it was like that.” We want to look away. And to be with a glass of water or to be with anything — and then they say, “Well, there’s nothing important enough.” And that’s whole thing. It’s the point.

Ms. Howe:

It’s the this, right?

Ms. Howe:

Right, the this, whatever. And then they say, “Oh, I saw a lot of people who really want” — and, “No, no, no. No abstractions, no interpretations.” But then this amazing thing happens, Krista. The fourth week or so, they come in and clinkety, clank, clank, clank, onto the table pours all this stuff. And it so thrilling. I mean, it is thrilling. Everybody can feel it. Everyone is just like, “Wow.” The slice of apple, and then that gleam of the knife, and the sound of the trashcan closing, and the maple tree outside, and the blue jay. I mean, it almost comes clanking into the room. And it’s just amazing.

Ms. Tippett:

In some basic level, what they’ve done is just engage with their senses.

Ms. Howe:

Yeah, and have been present out of their minds and just noticing what’s around them, which is — we don’t do. And again, not to compare it to anything. They’re not allowed. And that’s very hard for them. And then on the fifth or sixth week, I say, “OK, use metaphors.” And they don’t want to. They don’t know how. They’re like, “Why would I? Why would I compare that to anything when it’s itself?” Exactly. Good question.

So then you think, why the necessity of a metaphor? Why do you have to use a metaphor now? Not just to do it to avoid it, but to do it to make it more there. And it’s very interesting.