'Love Is Blind' illustrates the problems with sex ed and abortion conversations in America

Believe it or not, every season of "Love Is Blind" offers valuable life lessons to every viewer who is patient enough to sit through 10-plus hours of people careening recklessly toward marriage while drinking wine from gold goblets and look for the kernels of wisdom hidden in all the mess.

This season I have learned numerous useful things — like why you shouldn't tell the guy you're dating through a wall that you look like "MGK's girlfriend" unless you are, in fact, Megan Fox; the dangers of eating too many piping hot taquitos from a beachfront buffet and being unable to kiss your fiance as a result; and the fact that Charlotte, North Caroline, has some of the most soulless corporate housing the world has ever seen.

But more than anything, this season has offered a stark reminder about the dismal state of sexual education and reproductive health awareness in this country. This lesson comes courtesy of Johnny McIntyre and Amy Cortés, the first couple to get engaged and, in most ways, the most stable pairing in an otherwise chaotic and scandal-ridden season of Netflix's reality train wreck.

So far in the "experiment," as