What if consent education asked not only “Did you say yes?” but also “Did your body feel safe?” This piece looks at the gap between consent ideals and youth sexual culture, and offers a somatic framing where consent becomes an ongoing, felt practice rather than just a legal rule

On what happens to boys’ nervous systems when tenderness is called “unmanly,” and how sex education can help them feel and stay instead of numbing out

Suppressing sexuality does not make people less sexual. It makes desire more hidden, more charged, and more distorted. Here, pleasure is treated as information and as something that thrives when it has safety, honesty, and choice to move through

On how bringing the body and nervous system into sex education changes it from a list of rules into a practice of self‑relationship, self‑trust, and genuine choice

On how our own bodies and histories shape the way we talk to our kids about sex, and what becomes possible when we bring the nervous system into the conversation