The New "G"

"What is the G-spot?" Daniel, 12th grade student asks me in his advising classroom.

(Inner dialogue, "WHOO weee, not prepared , not prepared! No, no, I got this. I know the answer and he should too. Ok, calmly now, tell him.")

"The G-spot is an erogenous area inside a vagina that when stimulated can lead to pleasure or orgasm." I said it. 

Daniel blushes!

I work with a group of high school seniors who have no science teacher at their school. No science teacher! Injustice, anyone?! Luckily, though, down the road is a Junior college. These five students head down the road for a Human sexualities course. I looked through their reader and it looks pretty legit. The information appears to cover biology, gender, sexuality, race, culture, and class politically so. The Christian influence on the sex education that these students would have received if they had a science teacher is explored. I am pleased with the interdisciplinary nature of understanding Human Sexualities. The students are totally engaged and amazing critical thinkers.

Enter Mohammed into the G-spot conversation. Mohammed is the self assured, hoopstar, and clever as ever student- "That's the G-spot?! Hell yeah, that's what I am talking about, G. You feel me, that is the kind of G I am about to be. Naw, for real, we were talking in our class the way sex is mostly about pleasure for men. And the way men are supposed to be aggressive and stuff. But now we know, G. I'm about to be this kind of G."

Meanwhile, Ariana, the only young woman taking the course with four young men, can't seem to stop saying penis!

A certain sort of thrill and freedom seems to have enlivened these youth. A bit of humor gets them through as they so very maturely engage an important, vital, and pleasurable topic that would have otherwise been lost on them. Sadly, abstinence only isn't the reason they'd otherwise be denied access to this education, it is the injustice of public school education denying a science teacher to high school students.   

Well, at least we've got a few new "G's" out there... you feel?