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Kerry Washington Is 'Shaking Off the Shame' of Sex Ed: 'People Are Left to Navigate These Issues Alone'

Kerry Washington tells PEOPLE about the inspiration behind her work to improve and broaden sex education, an effort that she says 'feels like a radical act right now because of the attacks on reproductive rights and reproductive education.'

Improving sex education — and broadening its scope, both geographically and in terms of accuracy — has been a lifelong passion for the actress, 47, whose career kicked off, in some ways, with the topic. "And we wrote these skits about health and wellness and safer sex issues and homosexuality and abortion, and just sort of trafficking in this space has been important to me for a long time." "It's really about working with the company, not just on the product, but also on the education, the information, overall improving the lives of women by taking care of our sexual and vaginal health."

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