The Sex Education You Wish You Had

Show #81 Hour 2 | Guests: Julie Metzger and Dr. Robert Lehman, Sex and Health Educators at Great Conversations, Seattle WA | Show Summary: How do you engage pre-teens and teenagers with real facts about sex? How about letting them sneak you anonymous questions while you stand before a classroom wearing a sanitary-napkin corsage? Julie and Rob's wit, frank nature, and medical backgrounds combine in their groundbreaking program that pushes past shyness and shame to deliver plain facts about sex and reproduction. Their classes reach out to kids, parents, and teachers, and are a long way from the "mental hygiene" film lessons of past generations. Julie Metzger combined her experience as an RN with her passion for working with adolescents and their families to create her class For Girls Only, now taught through Seattle Children's Hospital and Lucille Packard Children's Hospital. She was recently profiled in the New York Times, and is based in Washington state. Her latest book is This is Me: A Journal for Girls. Rob Lehman, MD, trained in pediatrics and adolescent medicine. He's active in state and national health policy formation, and serves on the Seattle STD/HIV Prevention Training Center Advisory Board and is a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington.