Getting Real About Sex Ed with Shafia Zaloom

Sexuality education is proven to have positive impacts on kids’ lifelong wellbeing in all areas and yet, people assume it only covers S-E-X. In fact, as health educator Shafia Zaloom discusses on the podcast, this corner of education provides young people with a wide variety of life-critical skills like emotional intelligence, boundary setting, conflict resolution, and so much more. Yes, science-based sexual health is an important part of any good education but so too are the cornerstones of humanity like dignity, love, and respect. Show Notes: Getting Real About Sex Ed: What Today’s Students Need Watch the full episode on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠⁠⁠! ⁠⁠⁠⁠Join the LESS AWKWARD MEMBERSHIP HUB⁠⁠⁠⁠ Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠Quince.com/AWKWARD⁠⁠⁠⁠ for free shipping on your order and three hundred and sixty-five -day returns. Download the ⁠⁠⁠⁠FREE Playbook for Getting Your Kid to Talk⁠⁠⁠⁠ Order our book ⁠⁠⁠⁠This Is So Awkward⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out all our speaking and curriculum at ⁠⁠⁠⁠ and our super comfy products at ⁠⁠⁠⁠ To bring us to your school or community email ⁠⁠⁠⁠operations@lessawkward.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ To submit listener questions email ⁠⁠⁠⁠podcast@lessawkward.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ Produced by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Peoples Media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Getting Real About Sex Ed with Shafia Zaloom is an episode from The Puberty Podcast by This Is So Awkward.

This episode is 56:10 long.

This episode was published on Feb 24, 2026.

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