in honor of #sexedforall month, we asked young people: why do you fight for sex education?

here’s what angelica, fronterizx community project, had to say:

“i fight for sex education for all because it is important that the youth have know and a positive attitude towards their sexuality. my sex education at school was
was a package of paper with diagrams telling me if i were to have sex before marriage i was going to get pregnant or catch an std. it didn’t go into other options aside from abstinence. i also grew up with shame and stigma surrounding my sexuality and it took me searching for these answers on my own to have a clue of how std’s, female/ male condoms, pregnancies, and my own body worked. i fight for better sex education because i feel that if the youth knew these things so many other problems could be fixed, like teenage pregnancies, youth being the main age group affected by std’s, and toxic relationships.”