John Oliver took a look at the state of sex ed in the United States and, not surprisingly found said education wanting. On Sunday's "Last Week Tonight" he spent 21 minutes taking on the lack of any standards in sex ed, lambasted abstinence-only curriculum and then delivered a celebrity-filled, sex-ed video of his own.
Perhaps most importantly, he showed how an opportunity is wasted to teach adolescents about consent. In one series of clips from an educational video, he found a teenage boy suggested sex, the girl said "no," and the boy then wonders, "Does that mean 'no' or 'yes'?" The video then instructs the girl to say "no" more forcefully.
"It's good that that girl was being taught she has the power to say no," Oliver said, "but nowhere in the video do they point out that that guy could have been a lot better at hearing it."
His educational video seems to get everything right -- anatomy, clear descriptions of how to put on a condom, the importance of consent and, yes, even that abstinence is OK.