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Robert Gehrke: Utah’s sex ed failure would be hilarious if it weren’t horrifying

I have a friend who teaches sex education for junior high students and the questions she hears on a daily basis could make for a best-selling book.

What is sex? Can I get pregnant if there’s sperm in a swimming pool? What does vagina mean? Can you get pregnant through underwear? Can I catch pubic lice on my head? Birth control prevents sexually transmitted diseases, right?

One student gave her an entire handwritten list, two pages in all, with pretty much every inquiry under the sun.

Some of the questions she gets are practical, some are wildly inappropriate and some are frankly kind of hilarious.