New Take on Sex Ed

Posted by Christopher Stahelin in Students

Team Wet Dream is a group consisting of four bold women: SFUAD seniors Stormy Pyeatte, Dean Marsh, Chelsea Cook and SFUAD alumna Joie Flare, who are working together to create a new approach to sexual education.

“We were talking about releasing a video that people could watch, autobiographical interviews with people sharing their stories, so people don’t feel alone,” Pyeatte says.

The project began through an idea Pyeatte and Flare had to make a video that would help young women going through a pregnancy or potential pregnancy and educate them on their options. From there, the project has evolved.They have interviewed approximately 30 people about their sexual experiences. Their interview pool is extremely diverse, as are the questions themselves, covering everything from first time sexual experiences, awkward moments, and the interview subjects’ opinions on a wide variety of issues and subjects pertaining to sex. No subject is off limits.

The group’s opinions on how sexual education is handled is bleak.
“It bothers me so much that we live in a world where everything is hyper-sexualized,” Pyeatte says. “We’re in a world where sex sells, but we’re teaching abstinence and it’s frustrating because we’re denying them of one of the most important things that they need to know. You’re not teaching them to respect themselves, you’re not teaching them to take pride in themselves, you’re not teaching them to respect others, you’re not teaching them about gay sex. We’re trying to break down those barriers.”

The project’s targeted audience is younger people, but definitely is not limited to that demographic. This project is going to have an all-inclusive audience: heterosexuals, homosexuals, bisexuals, pansexuals, transgenders.

“Going through puberty is strange and confusing, going through puberty and finding out that you’re gay, coming to that realization and not having any source to go to aside from the internet, which is littered with bullshit information. The resources are so limited,” Marsh says.

This group has a way of looking at the core of sexuality and bringing it to the light regardless of gender and sexual orientation; the information that they are going to be broadcasting is going to be useful resource for all to watch.

“It’s the importance of taking pride in your body and the importance of getting tested, positive sexual education instead of scaring kids out of sex with a bunch of STDs,” Pyeatte says of the project’s intent.

The group plans to take the interviews they have and produce a web series with two-three minute episodes and are looking to air online some time this month. Although the project doesn’t have a name yet, the group is content with Team Wet Dream for the time being.