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| Jen Rose |
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My experiences with sex education came early. When I was only eight my mother sat me down and drew a detailed diagram of the uterus and ovaries attempting to explain menstruation. I did not comprehend anything she was saying but a few years later the girls in my fifth grade class and taken to watch a “special film”. Suddenly my mother’s diagram made sense. I suspected this was the way most people’s sexual education went until I met my husband. His parents explained sex to him driving home from the movie theater after watching Porkys. I think he may have been 9 years old. This gulf in our experiences is fascinating to me. These are some of the issues explored in Is My Body Changing?. This ceramic sculpture is a book that will not open. The answers to the questions every young woman needs are inaccessible. Even if the book were readable the information would be outdated and steeped in gender bias. After talking to many and learning about their first experiences with sex education I think this piece represents how most of us felt when we wanted real answers and could not any…. or worse yet, the education experience was thrust upon us only leaving us more confused and apprehensive. |
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