VIDEO: John Oliver Makes the Star-Studded Sex Ed Video You’ll All Wish You’d Seen as Teens
Sexual education is extremely important, and yet a lack of standardization means that schoolchildren all over the country receive very different information, some of which is false and a lot of which includes shaming kids (mainly girls) who have had or want to have sex.Sexual education is extremely important, and yet a lack of standardization means that schoolchildren all over the country receive very different information, some of which is false and a lot of which includes shaming kids (mainly girls) who have had or want to have sex.
Thankfully, John Oliver stepped in on Sunday on HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” to provide a much-needed tutorial. He was accompanied by actors Laverne Cox, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally and several others.
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