The (Internet) Sex Education of
Melissa Gira Grant

(Sort of) Sex Ed
http://www.archive.org/details/AsBoysGr1957

(Sort of) Sex Ed
http://www.archive.org/details/AsBoysGr1957

Now Sex Ed
http://midwestteensexshow.com/2008/06/23/mtss-episode-17-the-penis/

Now Sex Ed
http://midwestteensexshow.com/2008/06/23/mtss-episode-17-the-penis/

Wow, so what happened?

Wow, so what happened?
• Sex ed has gone...

Wow, so what happened?
• Sex ed has gone...
• online

Wow, so what happened?
• Sex ed has gone...
• online
• peer-to-peer

Wow, so what happened?
• Sex ed has gone...
• online
• peer-to-peer
• fast, cheap, and a little out of control *

Wow, so what happened?
• Sex ed has gone...
• online
• peer-to-peer
• fast, cheap, and a little out of control *
• * and that’s okay

1994

This is not why my mother
let me sign up for AOL...

Can we talk about the
90’s, seriously?

“the drag years”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_you%27re_a_dog

So many ways to be
somebody else...
• Other people’s gender
• Other people’s fetishes
• Other people’s sexual
histories
• Other people’s drama

the web gets pretty/smart

america actually goes online

anyone can do it

so who are the experts?

organizing w/o organizations,
educating w/o institutions

Here Comes Everybody

“We don’t often talk about love
when trying to describe the public world, because love seems
too squishy and too private. What has happened, though, and
what is still happening in our historical moment, is that love
has become a lot less squishy and a lot less private...
Now we can do things for strangers
who do things for us, at a low enough cost
to make that kind of behavior attractive,
and those effects can last well beyond our
original contribution.
Our social tools are turning love
into a renewable building material.”
- Clay Shirky

the end of sexpertise

wait, where’d my job go?

the future of sex ed
• Curation
• Collaboration
• Community

RenegadeCast

it’s a little awkward, but...

... it always is the first time.

come talk to me
melissa@melissagira.com