former educator turned documentary filmmaker.

You made a documentary called

"Who's Your Teacher?"

that you've been working on for quite a bit.

- I did.

(both laughing)

- I honestly really love this doc!

So you showed a cut to me

asking me for some notes and stuff

and I just thought it was so important and so needed,

you know, a documentary about the lack of Sex Education

in the school system right now.

I mean, I can definitely speak from experience.

I thought getting pregnant meant,

like, putting your nipples on somebody else's nipples.

The first time I masturbated I used a banana

'cause that's what I saw on TV and in film,

but I used a condom,

so I felt like I was having safe sex.

- I was gonna ask.

- Ani is also doing an entire series after this

about Sex Education.

I really loved this documentary

and honestly, I thought that you guys would love it as well.

So without further ado: WHO'S YOUR TEACHER?

- Okay.

So.

This is a compilation

of some questions that some 5th graders

in a Sex Ed class

wrote down and put into the question box

that their teacher set up for them.

I'm just gonna read some of them out loud because they are

both frightening and extremely entertaining.

"Is it danger to have a big breast

and the other small?"

Good question, the answer is no.

"What's pussy?"

"Where do the boys have to put their peanuts

when they do sex?"

"Why do the boys peanuts gets up?"

"Sex is sucking penis."

This one is written in all caps,

"SEX IS SUCKING PENIS.

WHY DO GIRLS HATE THIS."

Period.

"OUR YOU PREGNANT"

(upbeat music)

"Why is your pubic hair curly?"

"Can a dog have sex with a human girl?"

"Why is sex important?"

"If a girl has her period and she has sex

what happens to her?"

"What happens if you see a condom..."

"Why do boys get more power to do the sex?"

(questions overlapping)

"Is sex the most dangerous thing in life?"

That's my favorite one.

(upbeat music)

I would like to envision a world in the future

where there is a mandatory class in every grade level

that just teaches people how to be people.

And I don't think we should call it Sex Ed.

In 2016, after years of frustration

with the public school system,

I gave up my teaching position to explore the ways

that our nation's Sex Education is lacking.

Heavy on my mind was a question

about how a lack of comprehensive Sex Education,

combined with full access to information online,

was shaping our nation's youth.

Everyone's afraid of the word "sex,"

take it out of the equation

and call it Human Relations and start it in Kindergarten.

Because as a teacher,

I

saw firsthand

how there is literally absolutely no education

for people on how to be people.

And what they can and can't do

with all of their like,

raging feelings and anxiety

and fear and insecurity and hormones. All of that stuff,

how we relate to each other, later on becomes sexuality, it

definitely doesn't start as sexuality.

Why would you not want

your children or our nation's children to be more informed

about what to do and what not to do with their bodies?

Because the feelings are natural

and they're going to happen

whether we educate them or not.

Teachers and parents

are no longer the primary source of information,

as it goes right now.

Kids are just using the internet to find out

about their curiosity about sex.

Interestingly enough, I started this project

like a year before the #MeToo movement started to unfold.

Every single story that I saw break

during the #MeToo movement

struck me as

the by-product of

lack of education.

And I think the people that are afraid

of more education are just also victims

of being undereducated themselves.

The more information from educated professionals the better.

Sex Ed, or as I'm now going to refer to it from here on out:

Human Relations,

is not going to

create an interest inside of a person

that doesn't already exist.

Sex right now, the topic of sex is so taboo

and treated with such shame and fear

that it becomes a fear-based

vitriolic, ugly topic.

(upbeat music)

So, when I started working

on this project a couple of years ago,

I started, I set Google alerts for Sex Ed laws in America

and Sex Education

and started compiling some articles

that were pertinent to the topic

and just sort of reading

about how people felt across the nation,

other teachers, parents, students.

This conversation is

happening

everywhere.

There are a lot of pushes toward better Sex Ed.

There are a lot of pushbacks,

specifically by our current administration

who wants to go back to "abstinence only,"

but it's definitely a hot topic right now.

"Sex Education Allows Campus Betterment, Studies Show"

"Are We Lying In Sex Ed Class?"

I have found the answer to that question to be Yes.

Believe it or not only 24 states make Sex Ed mandatory

and only 13 of those states

require that their Sex Ed be medically accurate.

Beyond that, when researching whether or not

the current curriculum includes LGBTQ+ issues,

I found very disappointing results.

One of the articles that I came across

really stood out to me

because it was written by a French adult film star,

her name's Nikita Bellucci.

She says, she's "fed up with educating kids online"

and "she fumes over families lacking Sex Ed."

And she basically goes on to say that

because there's such a lack

of appropriate and comprehensive information,

she's been thrust into the role

of pseudo educator.

And she gets messages from young people all the time

asking her questions like,

"I want to do this, how do I go about it?"

Or, "This is happening to my body,

can you give me information about that?"

Because she's not afraid to talk about sex

and people in the school system

who are supposed to educate are afraid.

There is a profound lack of information across the nation.

Young people are educating themselves about sex by Googling.

And since porn comes up when you Google sex questions,

adult film stars are becoming educators

whether they choose to or not.

So I reached out to six adult film stars directly

about the types of internet messages they receive

from undereducated young people.

We also talked about what their own Sex Education was like

and about what they think

about the state of Sex Ed in America right now.

(keyboard clattering)

- A lot of people reach out to me

for information because I work in the sex industry.

I've had people that I've gone to school with,

I've had fans,

I've had

a lot of different people just ask me for information.

Sometimes I get things that are a little bit more personal

and have to do with

their mental state and their emotional state and

different things about their sexuality

whereas other times I have people

coming and asking me for advice on sex

like what positions are best,

what type of lube to use,

how to have anal sex safely,

you know, just different things.

I get asked a lot.

I actually am very surprised

by some of the questions that I get.

I've had people questioning their sexuality,

like, I have a friend who has a girlfriend

and he's also interested in males,

but he was asking me, he was like, "Does this make me gay?"

- [Ani] Right.

- I'm like, no, I mean, if you like both,

that makes you Bi that doesn't make you gay and

for me, I feel like that's a little bit like, cut and dry.

It's pretty out there,

it's very straight forward,

but a lot of people don't understand that

because those things don't get discussed.

- People have

reached out to me via DM or email

asking me personal questions about,

well, "What do you think about this?"

And like, a sexual preference thing

and at first I'm looking at this question

from this grown-ass man and I'm like,

who the fuck cares about what I think about pegging?

Why are you asking me this?

And then I realize,

beyond not being educated, not everybody is

as curious or has access to the things that I did

and maybe I'm someone that they feel comfortable

with just even asking,

so I kind of took it back to that and, "Okay,

I can answer some of these questions."

(keyboard clattering)

Honestly, I remember at the age of 5,

stumbling across my dad's Playboys in his office

and I was like enthralled, I was fascinated.

I couldn't stop going into that room

and looking at those women.

I connected with them.

Like, I wanted to see them,

I wanted to be them.

I kept wanting to be around them.

I just, I couldn't get enough of them.

- I actually learned about sex

at an extremely young age by mistake.

So one day my dad was napping

and I knew how to work the VHS player

and I couldn't read yet.

I accidentally put a porno in because he didn't put it away.

He had a movie just sitting on top,

no box or anything.

I thought it was one of my Disney movies.

Yeah.

- It wasn't for a while 'til I-

'cause we didn't have internet at my house-

this is still before, you know,

all you kids, you have internet on your phones,

we didn't have that.

So this was before I could go fucking fact check this shit

and I remember like thinking of that for a long time until

I saw a porno and

then I got more information from

what, at least a female body looked like, from porn.

- It was probably about age 12.

Curiosity and desire and

sort of

seeking

like a reciprocal

attraction

with my friend who lived across the street.

And so she and I like,

we didn't talk about it like a sex thing,

it was just a game that we were playing,

but it was totally like we both like knew.

And so we kind of messed around a little bit.