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Oct 14, 2026
How To Unlearn Sexual Shame — When Your Whole Culture Taught It To You
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David ChambersHOST
What was your journey like to, what inspired you as well to do the work that you do today?
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2:29Karishma SwarupGUEST
We had, like, a few conversations with teachers and so on that in hindsight now I know are sort of problematic, but in the moment, that's all we got, right? Like, we got one conversation on this is how menstruation works, and maybe, like, a biology class around how sex works, but not any actual, like, you could s- even as a teenager, I could tell, like, there's so much hype around this thing that we call sex, but I have no idea what it is or why there's so much hype around it or anything like that, right? And I remember it just meant that a lot of my peers and I, um, were in relationships long before we had any sort of scripts or conversations with any adults about what that should look like.
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3:18Karishma SwarupGUEST
And, um, I came across a student group that was volunteering to teach sex ed to high school students, and I was like, "Wait a second.