Award-winning NPR and PBS journalist and host Khalil Ekulona shares his experiences and reflections on how myths about sexuality often remove humanity from one of our most human acts. We also discuss our diverse honor systems, what his sisters taught him about women, and what Ella Fitzgerald, Wayne Newton and Tony Bennett can teach us all about relationships. 

From hookups and “swipey dating” to sex ed and male entitlement: What has and has NOT changed in recent decades for young women? This week’s guest says she and her peers are still fighting the mythologies of “boys will be boys,” of virginity, of people-pleasing as a part of female sexuality. Which means my former student and I are able to share bad dating stories far too easily.

But the conversation is also heartening, as it is whenever young women share how they’re dismantling persisting myths about their sexuality, that they won’t put up with anymore.