Whether they see their virginity as a gift or a stigma to get rid of the first chance they get, today’s teens are desperate to learn about pleasure in “healthy” relationships, which means traditional sex education that beats the safe sex drum is no longer speaking to them, if it ever did.

It is this group that just wanted to get it over with, that he said is the most self-conscious and least served by current safe sex-focused education,

Prof. Humphreys said the research demands more sophisticated sex education with different messages tailored to each group. He is looking to expand his study by tracking students who start university as virgins. He also wants to find out which of the three groups most rigorously uses protection, and how diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds play into the mix -he has already found that those who regularly attend church were more likely to have offered their virginity as a gift.

During a presentation called Pleasure-Based Education for Youth, Carlyle Jansen, founder of Good For Her, a Toronto sex shop, and fellow retailer Renee Pilgrim drew the ire of their peers after they whipped out an enormous brown dildo and a plush, purple puppet shaped like an equally colossal vulva.

They are just some of the explicit how-tos that the women are shopping around at Toronto high schools, universities and community centres as part of the Good for Her Sexual Health Education and Pleasure Project.

After one audience member demanded to know the women’s credentials, then chastised them for underestimating their power as educators, Ms. Jensen cited several common myths about the divisive pleasure-based education model, namely that it encourages sex, that teens need to be “mature” for sexual understanding and that youth are irresponsible.

She said pleasure-based education must involve peer educators, anonymous questions and information based on personal experience, as well as teachings tailored to specific age groups. For example, with her younger students, Ms. Jensen wouldn’t necessarily exhibit the more explicit techniques she and her fellow presenters showed off in Guelph, but rather, speak in “generalities.”

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