Jessica Smarr – UN|HUSHED

Wrap it Up! (As in gifts, this time. Not condoms.)

November 30, 2021 Jessica Smarr

Looking for the perfect gift for your precocious preschooler or your curious and keen teen? Unhushed has you covered! Check out our book recommendations that are sure to spread some sexuality positive holiday cheer. For the tiny to mid-sized humans (Ages 2-8): Julián at the Wedding written and illustrated by…

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#TBT Sex Ed History – The Pride of the Garden

April 8, 2021 Jessica Smarr

In 1857, the first edition of “The Language of Flowers” was published. This book offered its reader a wealth of knowledge about the messages and emotions that could be shared through flora. You know. Sage to show esteem, basil to signify hatred, and violets to tell the world that you’re…

#TBT Sex Ed History – O-possums! Pest Killers in the Streets, Sneezers in the Sheets

December 10, 2020 Jessica Smarr

Every night in America, there are heroes patrolling our streets, keeping them safe and clean. They don’t do it for the fame or the glory. They don’t even do it for the soft, internal glow of altruism. They just do it because they’re Opossums and they’re hungry. As the only…

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#TBT Sex Ed History – Dude, Are Those Penises In Your boat? And Other Questions for Medieval Europeans

December 3, 2020 Jessica Smarr

Say what you will about medieval Europeans, but they knew their way around crude humor. Whether the jokes be scatological or sexual, they were often exceedingly dirty and delivered with the same gusto as a fifth grader telling a brand new fart joke. For most of the middle ages, most…

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#TBT Sex Ed History – Plain Facts and Even Plainer Cornflakes: John Harvey Kellogg and Sex

November 19, 2020 Jessica Smarr

While many contemporaries regarded Dr. John Harvey Kellogg as a respected visionary, modern depictions tend to paint him as masturbation-obsessed wackadoodle. But Dr. Kellogg was so much more than that – he was a racist, eugenicist, masturbation-obsessed wackadoodle who had some admittedly good advice about dietary fiber. Starting in the…

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#TBT Sex Ed History – Like a Virgin, Feeding Cake to a Snake For The Very First Time

November 12, 2020 Jessica Smarr

How do you know if someone’s a virgin? Well, you could call in an expert. You know, like a doctor. Or a bee. Or a snake. All have been asked to comment on the subject, and all are pretty equally qualified. “Virginity tests” have been around for centuries in most…

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#TBT Sex Ed History – It’s Called Fashion, Sweetie: Sperm, Eggs, and Frog Pants

November 5, 2020 Jessica Smarr

If you ever need to pick a fight with a bunch of 17th and 18th century European nerds, I suggest asking them where they think babies come from. That’s almost guaranteed to get them all riled up. People around the world had been documenting their observations of and theories about…

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#TBT Sex Ed History – Now with Wings! Menstruation and American Aviation.

October 22, 2020 Jessica Smarr

Is space the final frontier? Honestly, I doubt it. If history has taught us anything, humanity’s final frontier might just be the uterus. After all, over a decade after putting a man on the moon, NASA still hadn’t managed to do the math on how many tampons a menstruating person…

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#TBT Sex Ed History – Hooligan Penguins

October 15, 2020 Jessica Smarr

Douglas Russell, curator of avian eggs and nests at London’s Natural History Museum, was shuffling through an old file one day in 2011 or 2012 (the exact date is lost in the annals of time) when he happened upon a pamphlet stamped “NOT FOR PUBLICATION.” He immediately consumed this titillating,…

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