Let's Talk About Sex

SEX: Are we afraid of this subject America?!


LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX is a highly recommended film for both parents and young adults. It focuses on the importance of the issues concerning sex and sexuality, with a humorous approach. They discuss where students learned about sex whether it was through a sex education program, peers, in the gym locker room, parents, etc. There were many misconceptions that were presented such as "if you have sex in water, you can't get pregnant". The film reveals that within our society, we do not know how to think about sex or how to discuss it. However, we can not eliminate sex or sexuality. As a nation, we need to determine how we can better educate our children and our students about sex and sexuality. 




Synopsis: 


LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX takes a revealing look at how American attitudes towards adolescent sexuality affect today’s teenagers. We live in a society that uses sex to sell everything from lipstick to laptops. Yet fear and silence around sex and sexuality also permeate our culture. Teens are paying a terrible price for this confusion in unintended pregnancy, STDs, and even HIV. And American taxpayers are paying billions to treat these entirely preventable problems.


The film’s director James Houston, an Australian fashion photographer now based in New York, tries to make sense of our contradicting attitudes about sex and sexuality by talking to the people they most affect: teens and their families. The film’s groundbreaking research includes testimony from experts and an examination of how other nations have succeeded at protecting adolescent sexual health where the U.S. is failing. A winner of the Youth Award at the Mostra de Ciencia e Cinema Festival and an official selection of the Provincetown International Film Festival, LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX challenges the viewer to take on this often uncomfortable subject and help protect the future of our young people.




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