The Jam Session Model of Sex only works for a minority

[elfs]

The Jam Session Model of Sex, brilliantly described by Karen B. K. Chan, tries to model a sexual encounter between two (or more) people as a musical jam session. In a musical jam session, people of differing musical abilities, talents, and skills get together and play together. Jazz is the pre-eminent genre of the jam session, in which experience

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[bldrnrpdx]

I remember Home Ec - I had two classes in Jr. High and one in High School. I'm so glad I didn't learn about sex from them. I'd already had a fair amount of exposure to and experience with cooking by the time I got to my Home Ec classes (hanging out with my mom and grandmothers in the kitchen, being allowed to participate in the cooking and sometimes the shopping, being allowed to try making some things on my own). In both settings of Home Ec, I was often told I was doing things wrong, or at the least inadequately, because I wasn't doing them with the same approach as my teachers. Not "well, that's another way to go about it", but I was *wrong*. For the final project in the High School class, we had to plan an "ethnic" meal, making the shopping list and then cooking the food. I decided to make a meal I'd had dozens of times when I was living in the Middle East. Unfortunately, my instructor was in charge of the shopping for all of the students, and was not just frugal but cheap and unbearably WASPish, which meant she either had no idea

[sirfox]

In NY State, home Ec. was a middle school thing, and covered domestic activities, aside from one day when we watched a TV special about Ryan White to teach us about AIDS