First of all, I would like to give a big THANK YOU from the very bottom of my heart to every single person that helps runs this site and works, no matter how small, to provide inclusive and accurate sex education to everyone. There are so few places like this, but there mere fact that there is gives me hope for the future. Without this website, I think I'd be making bad decisions for myself and dragging my current partner in with me, but instead I have found an empowering sexuality through knowledge, much of which has been gained here. So thank you.
That being said, I'm writing this because I want to be a sex educator.
I'm trying to read as much as I can about sexuality from as many books and websites as possible. I hosted a feminist radio show on my campus, help volunteer with the local Rape Crisis Center with events, and recently became a member of Bedsider. I am an English major living in South Carolina.
Right now, I'm looking for opportunities to teach sex education where I live. I recently called my YMCA and am waiting for a call back, and there are a few adult shops I could contact to set up a class, but I am unsure if they would allow me. I would also like to start an informal, perhaps unofficial, to teach as well. I suppose I'm wondering if I have enough credentials to teach, or even if I seem if I'm "old enough" to do so. Could I go and teach after-school at my local middle or high school as an individual, without the backing of a non-profit? My closest Planned Parenthood is three hours away--can they even help me? Would owning a website help? Should I start carrying business cards with me, even?
I know that there is a severe lack of quality, empowering sex education in this world, especially in my state, and a lack of opportunities to teach it. I suppose this post could be summed up in: Where should I start, and how do I gain the credential to do so? Thank you so, so much!