Only one topic out of sixteen cleared 50% when researchers asked nearly 4,000 single American adults what they'd actually learned about in school: reproduction. Not consent. Not healthy relationships. Not sexual orientation or gender identity. Just the basic mechanics of how someone gets pregnant.
That's the headline finding from "If I Only Knew Then," a study published last fall in the International Journal of Sexual Health by Jessica Hille, Justin Garcia, and Amanda Gesselman at Indiana University's Kinsey Institute.
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