Episode 126: Let's Talk About Consent, Baby

Has there ever been a better time to talk about sex education? Girls, women and their bodies are under siege. Supposed protectors of laws and rights are watching porn in the Commons. Young people are deluged with mixed messages about what they should and shouldn’t expect. There’s an orgasm gap, along with all the other gaps FFS. It’s enough to make you want to start burning everything down. So this week we are thrilled to welcome journalist Sophia Smith Galer to the podcast to talk about her new book, Losing, which proposes a new template for sex education for the 21st Century - starting with the absurd mythologising of virginity. It will make you angry about the sexual untruths peddled at girls and boys for generations. It’s time for a sex reset...

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