Traci Thomas of The Stacks podcast joins us to suggest books that help tweens and teens navigate the complicated world of sex and relationships. We’ll cover fiction and nonfiction — plus a few picks to help spice up the sex lives of parents!
Consent education in school is mostly insufficient or non-existent — even when it’s required by state law. An organization called SafeBAE is trying to change that by training teens to teach each other about sexual violence.
Check out Hillary’s op-ed in the New York Times!
We’re back after a 5-year hiatus! Hillary kicks us off with a story about her anxiety over her daughter’s first experience with unwanted male attention — and her subsequent misadventures in trying to get the girl’s school to teach consent.
While LST was on hiatus, Hillary created a fiction podcast about middle school called Here Lies Me. Check it out!
That… and other lessons of American sex ed. An actual historian walks us through the decades.
Breaking *robot baby* news! Join us as we try to make sense of a study that sheds some shocking light on our This American Life collab from 2 years ago.
Remember our This American Life collab about Paige and Rachel, the polar opposite girls who had polar opposite reactions to the robot babies in sex ed? Well, today there was breaking news about the robot babies. Check out my update on This American Life’s blog! The Longest Shortest Time may earn a small commission from […]