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Documentary
Alex · 2021
Alex Liu's first-person investigation of sex education and shame. The bathtub scene — mother teaching daughter the word clitoris, refusing to install shame — is the clearest Reversal passage in the library.
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What this book knows
Inherited sexual shame shrinks lives; frank, ongoing conversation — with self, family, and culture — is the antidote.
shame
To keep me abstinent, my school exposed me to image upon image of untreated sexually transmitted infections. These tactics scared the—
ASXP-RC-001When we shame people those feelings don't disappear. They go inward — and sometimes those behaviors end up coming out and hurting somebody.
ASXP-RC-004I made this film with the simple goal of dismantling generations of inherited shame so that I could achieve sexual Nirvana.
ASXP-RC-027education-and-formation
The first time you touch a condom should not be the day you're using it for sex. Preload them with information so years from now they're great at it.
ASXP-RC-021Sex ed can happen all throughout your age — at 60, in your 40s, at two years old. The script that you sit kids down for one talk and you're done is a lie.
ASXP-RC-024religion-and-sex
The Catholic Church, the institution that scolded my grandmother about her menstrual cycle, condemns gay marriage and promotes celibacy as godly.
ASXP-RC-017Illuminates
6 published passages · documentary · research analysis
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