Accurate, inclusive sexual health information does not dictate how people should use it or what value to assign it. Students often ask whether specific acts count as sex, such as oral sex, and educators avoid equating worth with body counts. Discussions begin with mainstream definitions and then use prompts to test what must occur for something to qualify as sex, including whether penetration is required and whether masturbation can count. As different views emerge, the idea of a single universal definition becomes less certain. Even abstinence and virginity vary, with some people defining abstinence as no genital contact beyond cleaning, while others include certain sexual activities but exclude others.
"At the start of our discussion, students regularly regurgitate mainstream definitions like a penis going into a vagina or intimacy between a man and a woman. In response, I offer prompts like What things have to happen for something to count as sex? or Does penetration always have to be a part of sex? or Could masturbation be a type of sex? As various opinions emerge, we start to move away from a universally agreed upon interpretation of sex and students notice how something they thought was clear to everyone is actually more complicated."
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