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Kristen Mark, PhD, MPH

@drkristenmark.bsky.social

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I'm a sex and relationships researcher, educator, and therapist. I study sexual well-being, sex ed, and satisfaction and pleasure. I'm a Professor in the Institute for Sexual and Gender Health at University of Minnesota Medical School.

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Kristen Mark, PhD, MPH @drkristenmark.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Stories are powerful agents of battling shame and stigma. That's why The Abstinence Project exists. To highlight the harms of abstinence only sex education. See the stories collected so far and add your own: theabstinenceproject.com

theabstinenceproject.com

The Abstinence Project

exposing shame-based abstinence-only sex education for the harm it causes on adult sexual development.

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Kristen Mark, PhD, MPH @drkristenmark.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

My UMN ISGH colleagues got me this generous care package with all these tasty vulva and breast chocolate suckers - the dogs are very intrigued 👀😂

Two dogs, Piper and Dali, looking up at me expectantly as I hold a handful of vulva and breast shaped white, brown, and pink chocolate suckers.

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