The Globe and Mail published an op-ed by Lori Brotto, a UBC professor of gynaecology, on the need for school-based sexual health education to include the scientific names for our body parts.
“By referring to genital anatomy by anything but their proper terms, we are implicitly communicating to children that those parts should not be talked about. The negative implications of this can include a general embarrassment about sexuality that produces barriers for healthy sex-related communication in the long-term,” she wrote.
