A school board director in Washington state says she will host events at an “identity-inclusive” and “not creepy” adult store she owns and discuss topics such as “sexual anatomy for pleasure” and “safer sex practices” with children as young as nine.
Jenn Mason, the school board director for Bellingham Public Schools, is advertising a sex education summer program called “Uncringe Academy.” The stated purpose of the program, according to the online advertisement, is to help “young people to feel comfortable around these topics so that they can advocate for their own bodies, health, and well-being.”
Mason is offering two “two-day, empowerment-based” workshops—one for 9- to 12-year-old children and another for 13- to 17-year-old teenagers. The workshops will cover topics such as “gender and sexual identities,” “sexual anatomy for pleasure and reproduction,” “kinds of solo and partnered sexual activities,” “safer sex practices for all kinds of sexual activities,” and “the ethics and realities of sexualized media and pornography.”…