Science and sex ed in a rational society

Recently I had the chance to visit Vancouver’s Science World (yes, I know, it’s the “Telus World of Science” now) to see their exhibit featuring animatronic dinosaurs, and while it was pretty exciting to see a T-Rex waggle it’s jaws at me, visitors to the Montreal Science Centre were having to a chance to learn more about a different kind of excitement: orgasm!

Leave it to the French to take sex ed out of the classroom and into a full exhibit hall with Sex: A Tell-All Exhibition. And they’ve apparently done a great job with it; The Canadian Association for Science Centres has awarded it prize for best exhibition or show in 2011.

The show aimed at teens has already traveled to Saskatchewan, and we hope to see it make it’s way further west in the future. And while teens are busy asking questions at the show, we’d like to ask our political leaders to take a stance as brave as the scientists and educators in Quebec and start a sex ed program featuring sexual gradualism.

About the Author

Reive

Reive would describe himself as a bisexual, polyamorous, consensual sadomasochist and sex positive activist, but his friends just call him a slut. He is well known in Vancouver's kink scene, having been a founder of BIO’s Vancouver Dungeon (now run by Metro Vancouver Kink), The Conference of Kink, Halloween Ghost Ship and the fetish nights Cirque de Sade and now NOIR Fetish Ball. With 19 years of experience in kink, he’s presented numerous seminars on BDSM and sexuality, spoken at Douglas College, SFU, and UBC, and has been featured in articles in The Globe and Mail, The Vancouver Sun, The Province, and Whiplash Magazine among others. He has been a source for several documentary and news producers, and was very thankful to end up on the cutting room floor for the series Kink. Reive has worked as an SM technical advisor, most recently on Smallville, and in the past for The L Word, and the unreleased short film Bondage.

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