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Sex Education on the Small Screen Shows Promising Results

By M. Christian
August 1, 2021
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Sex educators turn to video games, augmented reality, and TikTok to make education more exciting.

Pink sex education graphic with condoms

Techjury currently estimates the global video game industry is worth 90 billion dollars.

Yet for all the first-person shooters, RPGs, and more, the idea of using video games to teach people about sex hasn’t caught on.

But that may not be the case for too much longer.

Educators and industry innovators have begun to see the benefits of designing games and other new technologies to do exactly that.

93% of parents support high school sex education courses

Western society has frequently had difficulties, to put it mildly, with the idea of educating people about human sexuality. This becomes an especially hot topic when it involves students.

According to Planned Parenthood, 93% of parents supported high school level sex education courses.

Despite this, less than half of high schools teach the Centers for Disease Control’s advised topics, including the cause and prevention of sexually transmitted infections.

Video games make sex a less “sensitive” topic

This is where video games come in: they could possibly be used as powerful sex education tools.

The dangerous side of gaming, its addictive properties, could be used (in moderation) to encourage students to learn about sex education in a way that excites them.

Nina Freeman, for example, created the educational game how do you Do It? to teach children and young adults about sex in a safe, nonthreatening way.

Freeman explained to Mashable that young people’s comfort with video games “makes a difference when you’re trying to get them to talk about issues that are really sensitive or maybe their parents haven’t talked to them about.”

Immersive sex education

Man wearing Augment Reality glasses

Other new technologies, like augmented reality, are also emerging as promising ways to educate young people about sex.

At the Department of Computer Education and Instructional Technologies, Institute of Educational Sciences, Dokuz Eylul University in Izmir, Turkey, Bahar Baran and their team have demonstrated the effectiveness of augmented reality as a teaching tool.

Fitted with AR glasses or smartphones with an appropriate app, students could someday look at—and more impressively into—the human reproductive system.

Additionally, augmented reality’s ability to display information and images simultaneously could be used to educate students holistically.

Swipe up for knowledge

TikTok logo

One new platform for sex education is already well established: TikTok.

Seizing on the app’s popularity, some sex educators have begun using it to reach out to teens curious about sex and sexuality.

Tess Vanderhaeghe, a sex-ed content creator on TikTok, told The Lily why social media can be an effective outreach method, “Any teenager going through puberty is curious about sexual health. Gen Z just has access to platforms like TikTok and Instagram and a place to ask those questions in a different way.”

Educators need support

These early examples show real promise for the role technology could play in sex education.

In the meantime, we can all play a role in the development of quality educational tools by joining together to support passionate educators.

Image sources: Marco Verch Professional Photographer, Planned Parenthood, City University Interaction Lab, TikTok

M. Christian

M.Christian (they/them) loves nothing better than exploring the intersections of sex and technology—and speculating on the future of both. A highly regarded erotica writer they have six novels,12 collections, 100+ short stories, and 25 anthologies as an editor to their name. Their non-fiction regularly appears in many sites, but they're most proud of being a regular contributor to Future of Sex.

Of their erotic fiction, Tristan Taormino said that “M.Christian is a literary stylist of the highest caliber: smart, funny, frightening, sexy—there's nothing [they] can't write about… and brilliantly.”

Reflecting their unique ability to sympathetically and convincingly write for a range of genders and sexual orientations, their stories have appeared in multiple editions of Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, The Mammoth Books of Erotica, and others. Their collection of gay erotic fiction, Dirty Words, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.

While a majority of their stories have been collected into books like Dirty Words, their fondness for combining sex and science fiction is clearly evident in collections that include Rude Mechanicals, Technorotica, Better Than The Real Thing, Skin Effect Effect, Bachelor Machine, and Hard Drive: The Best Sci-Fi Erotica of M.Christian.

As a novelist, M.Christian’s versatility is on full display with Running Dry, The Very Bloody Marys, Brushes, Painted Doll; and the somewhat controversial queer BDSM/horror/thrillers Finger's Breadth, and Me2.

M.Christian has worked on the industry’s production side as an Associate Publisher for Renaissance E Books and as a Publisher for Digital Parchment Services. The latter dedicated to celebrating the works of science-fiction legends such as William Rotsler, Jerome Bixby, Jody Scott, Arthur Byron Cover, Ernest Hogan, and James Van Hise.

Covering topics like BDSM safety, sexual education, senior sexuality concerns, queer and gender issues, plus reviewing a variety of sex tech products, M.Christian’s non-fiction has appeared on sites like Kinkly, Tickle.Life, Sexpert, Queer Majority, Sex for Every Body, and—of course—their ongoing work for Future of Sex.

If there’s anything M.Christian enjoys more than writing, it’s teaching. A featured presenter, sometimes with their friend Ralph Greco Jr, at national sex and BDSM events, they have lectured on kink play (with an emphasis on safety), polyamory, boosting sexual creativity, and erotica writing--for beginners or those wanting to go pro.

M.Christian is a cohost on two popular sex-education podcasts: Love’s Outer Limits with Dr. Amy Marsh and Licking Non-Vanilla with Ralph Greco, Jr.
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