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Sue Johanson, beloved Canadian sex educator, dead at 93
CBC News ^ | Jenna Benchetrit

Posted on 06/29/2023 9:10:02 AM PDT by Kriggerel

Sue Johanson, the beloved Canadian broadcaster who in her golden years enraptured a generation with straightforward sex advice, is dead at 93, a representative confirmed to CBC News on Thursday.

Johanson died in a long-term care home in Thornhill, Ont., just north of Toronto, surrounded by her family, the representative said.

The broadcaster was best known for hosting the Canadian call-in radio and then television program Sunday Night Sex Show, which led to a successful U.S. spinoff called Talk Sex With Sue Johanson.

Born in Toronto, Johanson began her career as a nurse, receiving her training in Winnipeg. During the 1970s, she opened a birth control clinic at her daughter Jane's high school and ran it for almost two decades.


TOPICS: Education; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: canada; education; sexwithsue; suejohanson
Sue came to my High School when I was in Tenth Grade. I think, in the long run, she actually did a lot of good, as she was doing things like raising awareness of the risk of STDs pretty much before any public figure in Canada was doing it.
1 posted on 06/29/2023 9:10:02 AM PDT by Kriggerel
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To: Kriggerel

Safe and effective.

/sarc


2 posted on 06/29/2023 9:22:12 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: Kriggerel
It seems that everything's gone wrong
Since Canada came along.
3 posted on 06/29/2023 9:24:49 AM PDT by x
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To: Kriggerel

How long before she is vilified as not promoting LBGTQetc?


4 posted on 06/29/2023 9:25:31 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

Well, she also occasionally caught flak for inserting an abstinence message into her speeches in High School (at least in the Eighties, when she visited my school), with things like rolling her eyes and saying: “...and let me tell you right now: ‘Everybody’s doing it is the poorest and lamest excuse in the book!’


5 posted on 06/29/2023 9:33:38 AM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: Kriggerel

https://youtu.be/k_HmywMAoVo


6 posted on 06/29/2023 9:41:19 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: Kriggerel

I think, in the long run, she actually did a lot of good....
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I couldn’t disagree more. She understood the mechanics but had no understanding at all of what God intended when he ‘invented sex’.... and this lack of understanding unfortunately tainted every piece of advice she gave.


7 posted on 06/29/2023 9:47:01 AM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: Kriggerel

As Bob or Doug McKenzie would say: “Pull out, eh!”


8 posted on 06/29/2023 10:13:22 AM PDT by W. (biden still sucks! We want Trump back!)
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To: Kriggerel
Well,Gordie: first you take the maple syrup....
9 posted on 06/29/2023 10:18:55 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: BANANA REPUBLIC!)
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To: Kriggerel

To be absolutely honest, I’d rather learn about sex from Scarlett Johansson. But I’m sure this woman was lovely. Just not as lovely as Scarlett.


10 posted on 06/29/2023 10:22:32 AM PDT by ocendot
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To: hecticskeptic

**...what God intended...**

I am sooooo grateful for my mother who sat me down when I turned 16, locked her eyes on mine, and gave me what was truly a ‘serious as life and death’ talk.

It helped being a late bloomer, as I didn’t stop growing until 19, and had nothing much to shave until then as well. Therefore, I wasn’t attactive to the pretty girls I was interested in. So, ‘getting it on’ wasn’t going to happen. I also was taught to respect the opposite sex, and... myself.

Mom’s advice, and being patient won me an awesome wife (our 45th is in 6 weeks, and I’m soooo glad we learned together).


11 posted on 06/29/2023 10:34:08 AM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: Zuriel

She died childless or abandoned?
More sex education was needed.


12 posted on 06/29/2023 8:41:46 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It ( )
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