[KNEWZ] TikTok is the new frontier for sex education, with teachers rapidly amassing tons of followers among young people eager to learn.Marlena Segar, a 24-year-old East Londoner and a graduate of the University of Edinburgh, has become a teaching sensation during the Covid-19 pandemic since she started filming myth-busting sex ed videos in her living room and broadcasting them on TikTok, Yahoo! Style reports.
Amazed by how effective the social media app is as a platform from which to educate young people about sex, Segar has raked up millions of views.
Before the pandemic transformed her into a sex education teacher on TikTok, she was working as the assistant manager of a London sex shop.
While most of her fellow University of Edinburgh students did retail jobs on the side, Segar spent her free time teaching sex education in secondary schools.
Sex education teacher films myth busting TikTok videos in her bedroom
Then she lost her job in April 2020, so she became an at-home sex-ed teacher by launching her WeNudeToTalk channel on TikTok.
Within one month, the teacher already saw one of her TikTok sex education videos hit 1 million views — one in which she busted myths about self pleasure and that now has some 2.3 million views.