Erica Smith

Erica wears a colorful shawl over a black top and is angled toward the camera. She stands in front of a teal wall. She has hark brown har and looks at the camera.

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Erica Smith is an award winning sexuality educator and consultant with 25 years of experience. Throughout her career, she has provided comprehensive sex education and advocacy to young women and LGBTQ+ youth in Philadelphia’s juvenile justice system, worked in abortion care, and supported HIV positive and transgender adolescents and their families. In 2019, she developed the Purity Culture Dropout™️ Program to help people learn the sex education that they missed growing up in purity culture- sex ed that is accurate, queer inclusive, trauma informed, compassionate, and comprehensive. She has since worked with thousands of people to help them learn about healthy sexuality after high control religion. Her upcoming book, You Deserve To Know: Shame Free Sex Education After Purity Culture will be released later in 2025.

Programs

The Byte Barrier: How Algorithms Are Silencing Our Sexual Voices