Posted February 1, Reviewed by Lybi Ma. In college, he spent a lot of time on the ice, majoring in Physical Education and Health. He came close to playing professionally, but had to find another way to make a living.
In , New York required health classes to teach prevention of sexually transmitted infections STIs. While presenting the material, Schoen realized that his students, age 12 to 13, knew little about sex, so the STI curriculum put the cart before the horse. The class Schoen introduced used a textbook, but he also saw a great need for visual aids. Schoen had no idea how to make movies. He took a filmmaking course at night at nearby SUNY Stony Brook, and eventually got help from a childhood friend who became a Hollywood cinematographer.
It was his first movie, Gender βand more than 40 years later, the six-minute piece still holds up as a powerful personal exploration of gender roles and identify. In , Schoen launched SexSmartFilms. It has become the Netflix of sex education, offering more than films from around the world. In my opinion, this Schoen production is the best sex education film ever made. During the early s, sex educators at the Sinclair Institute produced this popular series of lovemaking-enrichment videos.
As the millennium loomed, Sinclair hired Schoen to rejuvenate the series, and expand it to include programs aimed specifically at Black couples and older adults.
This outstanding series of informative and arousing videos includes programs specifically targeted at heterosexuals, gay men, and lesbian women. In French with English subtitles, this delightful cartoon discusses the special gift evolution has granted women, the only organ solely devoted to pleasure. If you think the clitoris is just the little nub nestled beneath the top junction of the vaginal lips, think again.
