Inquisitive, beloved Canadian sex educator Sue Johanson dies aged 93

[Jilly_in_VA]

Inquisitive, beloved Canadian sex educator Sue Johanson dies aged 93
Johanson was venerated as a forthright educator who filled voids left by the absence of sex ed curricula at US and Canadian schools

Tracey Lindeman in Ottawa
Thu 29 Jun 2023 14.44 EDT
Sex educator Sue Johanson, who once declared that “horny is a beautiful thing,” has died at the age of 93 after more than two decades of giving frank advice to audiences in Canada and the US.

Johanson gained an international audience with her plainspoken guidance to Canadians on her radio and TV programme Sunday Night Sex Show – and then Americans on her Talk Sex programme.

She died in a long-term care home in Thornhill, Ontario.

Lisa Rideout, the director of a 2022 documentary on Johanson titled Sex With Sue, confirmed her death on Thursday. Paying tribute in a post on Instagram, Rideout called Johanson “an incredible, unstoppable force” who “paved the way for how we talk about sex and sexuality today”.

Johanson’s curly grey hair, wire-rimmed glasses and pragmatic wardrobe were a jarring contrast to her blunt, sometimes playful and often explicit takes on sexuality.

“She was a giant, and had such a positive impact on the lives of so many people,” wrote prominent sex advice columnist Dan Savage on Twitter.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/29/sue-johanson-dead-93-canadian-sex-educator

I first became aware of her in the early 2000s. She was wonderful! RIP Sue.

[Tripper11]

1. I listened to Sue a lot in the 80's

She was amazing, straightforward talk about sex, and sex of all kinds too. I remember when I first saw her I was honestly taken aback, grey haired "older" lady and all, but that really didn't matter. because it was her honesty and ease with the subject that made her what she was...great,