What Kids Want to Know About Sex and Growing Up

Overview

This video is about puberty, changes, and sex safety. Hosted by two teens (Z Wright and Stephanie Yu), this hour-long program (which is also airing as a 3-2-1 Contact special this month on PBS) uses explicit animation and frank discussions with high-comfort-level sex-education counselors to explain how both boys and girls mature physically — and how they’ll want to act once they do. The kids on camera ask questions about everything from wet dreams to menstruation to sexual intercourse, including safe sex. Intended for kids 8 and older, the program also defines some sexual slang that grade-schoolers may hear on the playground, but words that double as curses are discreetly left out.