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By Laura Hooberman A few months ago, I was with a group of friends, discussing what we recalled of the sexual education we received as adolescents. As a diverse group of New York City transplants, our experiences varied. For one, a woman who grew up in a rural, conservative town in the Midwest, ‘sex ed’ in her school meant a curriculum focused exclusively on promoting abstinence until marriage. I fared, I felt, a bit better; having grown up in a more liberal community, I reme

by Hannah Bernhardt Illustration by Tamara Cubrilo My favorite scene in “Mean Girls” is when the entire school is brought together for Sex Ed. In this scene, all the students are gathered in the gym while the P.E. teacher rants about the dangers of sex. It’s ridiculous, it’s over-the-top, and honestly… it’s kinda relatable. That scene is so funny precisely because so many of us were subjected to similar scare tactics in our sex ed: “Don’t have sex, because you will get pregna