Maybe you were warned against sex in 8th-grade health class. Maybe they split the girls and the boys up, handed out condoms and told you to proceed at your own risk. They showed pictures of the sores and rashes and had you sit through a live birth video from 40 years ago. Maybe you even got a special at-home supplemental discussion, reinforcing basic terminology and had sneaky condoms appearing under the bathroom sink that night. Consider yourself signed, stamped and approved to move forward with sex and your body for the rest of your life with an ultrathin and the internet as your only guides.

The school system continues to fail kids when it comes to learning about sex. Parents are struggling to have big conversations because the school system failed them 30 years prior. Pleasure, emotional well-being, consent and the overall nature of sex are often overlooked in a classroom and at home, which leaves people of all ages unintentionally uneducated.

Let’s Talk is a mock social media entity and strategy that attempts to break the stigma clouding sex and pleasure. It is a safe zone staffed by experts in physical health, mental health and sexual health. It displays information openly and boldly, while also still providing anonymity if people willing to learn choose to remain that way. Its teachings are funneled to the curious through Q&As, FAQs and general morsels of information, focusing on all people, all organs and all stages of sexual health and well-being.

At first, Let’s Talk was meant to have ‘SEX’ in bold letters and sex-positive enthusiasts singing their messages from the hypothetical social media rooftops. But no matter how much we enjoy it, watch it in the privacy of our homes or talk about it with our friends, it’s still taboo to casually ask about in the daylight. Let’s Talk is a sex-positive sexual education resource that celebrates the ins and outs (get it) but also understands some people are not ready to receive information and knowledge as openly as others, and that’s okay.

The design is simple yet effective. The text is factual but not overly scientific. The voice is educational but friendly.

Let’s talk together.

post edited 11/29/22 at 1:18pm