Sex Ed - Magazine Design

Giggles. Graphic videos of childbirth. Blushes. Condoms stretched onto bright banana peels. These are the markers of a passable high school sex-ed course in America. For some, this education is just disappointing or not enough, but for others it is severely damaging due to a lack of acceptance and the shame weaved into the coursework. I’ve long complained about the discourse and understanding surrounding sex in our society. Faced with the impossibility of single-handedly changing the public education system curriculum for sex-ed, my focus shifted to ease the problem in the next educational stage: higher education.

Within university, where conversation is free-flowing, the dialogue about sex is often dominated by discourse on rape. However, rape isn’t sex: it’s violence. This piece isn’t about violence; it’s about sex.

As I worked on this publication, combining popular media and scientific research, I partnered with Hamline University’s Women’s Resource Center and concentrated on the most forgotten elements and biggest myths about sex with a female-focused* perspective and constant sex-positivity. All together, this work is a crash course on topics that are often missed in public high school’s sex-ed and still only the start of the conversation.

This snapshot is of the pattern and type of a two page spread on inaccuracy of common conceptions of virginity and the varying types of hymens.