Founder of BD Sex Education

Season 5 - Episode 10: Even though sex education is such an
everyday aspect of our life because it can impact a person from
the moment that they're born to their death bed. Because it's
such an everyday part of our lives, I thought it was really
integral to only have this information in Bangla, because it's
meant for aunties, it's meant for uncles, it's meant for our
parents. It's meant for people back home. I can't even begin to
tell you the kinds of questions that I've received, and it makes
me so sad because a lot of the questions that I received from
people living in Bangladesh, it's questions and answers that kids
ask here in the United States. One of the first emails I
received, I had someone ask me, "I'm getting married this
weekend. How do I make sex enjoyable for my wife?" That was
really overwhelming because I didn't think I was going to get so
many intimacy questions so quickly. I want to be respectful of
the Bangladeshi culture. I'm mindful of the fact that it is
somewhat conservative, and I respect that completely. So that's
why I'm trying to come at it from a public health perspective.
But I started getting all of these intimacy-related questions
from men, women and people of all different genders, different
backgrounds, and whom all look different. I had students reaching
out to me about their boyfriends. I had niqabis reaching out to
me about how to please their husbands. It was really eye-opening
to me, and it also made me realize my own biases that might not
be right because Bangladesh has a population of over 160 million.
So that's a lot of sex.  I think we shy away from this
topic, but we're clearly doing it. 





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