About Your Sexuality, or AYS, was a sex education course published by the Unitarian Universalist Association between 1971 and 1997. The course materials were originally developed by Derek Calderwood. Although made available to other organizations, the materials were primarily used in courses taught to teenagers (in mixed-gender groups) in Unitarian Universalist congregations. Sex education is education about sexual reproduction in human beings, sexual intercourse and other aspects of human sexual behavior. ... Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), in full the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations in North America, is a liberal religious denomination of Unitarian Universalist congregations formed by the consolidation in 1961 of the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church in America. ...
AYS was unique among sex education course because it used visual materials that depicted human sexuality in a realistic and graphic fashion. For example, film strips used in the course showed images of real heterosexual and homosexual encounters. These images did not try to hide the genitals or the details of penetration. One of the more controversial film strips showed a man masturbating. The film strip concluded with images of the man ejaculating into his navel and then tasting his own semen.
The AYS course has since been replaced by a sexual education course called Our Whole Lives. Our Whole Lives, or OWL, is a set of sexuality curricula for teenagers and adults prepared by the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ. ...
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