Jessica Biel appeared at the 2018 Makers conference in LA this week, and she ended up doing a discussion (or Q&A session) about sexual education. I hadn’t seen this, but Biel did a sex-positive/vadge-positive PSA with Chelsea Handler. I mean, I guess this is NSFW because they say “vagina” like a million times, but this actually has a good PSA-type message, so I don’t know how to label it! It’s not dirty or anything. The only problematic thing here is Chelsea Handler’s Botox-face. Go ahead and watch it.
It’s not bad. This is a good message for girls and women. So how is Biel raising her toddler son Silas? At the Makers Conference, Biel talked about introducing the right terminology to Silas:
Jessica Biel is already giving her 2-year-old son some lessons on the birds and the bees. The actress spoke at the 2018 MAKERS Conference in Los Angeles Tuesday (Feb. 6) and discussed her sexual education PSA video she made with Chelsea Handler. She then talked about how the topic of sex translates in her home, and how she and husband Justin Timberlake are teaching son Silas to be comfortable and understanding with his body from a young age.
“We’re using technical terms … we shower together, and [we say], ‘This is what I’ve got. This is what you’ve got,’” she said. “We just talk about it. I know it’s really young, but I really believe that if you start this early, there’s no shame.”
“I don’t want to tell him, ‘Keep your private parts,’ and this and that,” she continued. “It’s a beautiful thing. You have it and mine is different and it’s cool, man. We have to respect ourselves and respect each other.”
I took “there’s no shame” to mean that her son won’t grow up ashamed of his body or his sexuality, as opposed to “no shame” about sex education, you know what I’m saying? I think the right technical terms are fine and I agree that age appropriate sex education and body education is a great thing, and it should be an ongoing conversation throughout childhood and beyond. Every family is different and every family makes their own choices about this sort of thing, but I prefer the Biel method of doing things as opposed to, say, the Duggar method.
Also: Jessica Biel went “blonde” and Justin Timberlake is into it. He’s not into it to the point where he would actually post a photo of his wife on his Instagram or anything, but he commented “my boo thang looks goooood!” I don’t see a huge change – yes, her hair is noticeably lighter, but she kept it in the “bronde” family.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Instagram.
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