Sue Johanson, beloved Canadian sex educator known for her Sunday Night Sex Show, has died at the age of 93, CBC reports.
Johanson passed away in a long-term care facility in Thornhill, ON, surrounded by family. No cause of death has been revealed as of press time.
Born in Toronto in 1930, Johanson became a registered nurse after attending school at St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg. In 1970, she opened a birth control clinic at Toronto's Don Mills CI high school — the first of its kind in the country at the time. She would go on to further bolster her education in the areas of family planning and human sexuality at the University of Toronto and University of Michigan, which led to her career as a sex educator.
Sunday Night Sex Show began as a radio program on Q107 in the '80s, evolving into a television program on Rogers TV by 1985. It moved to Women's Television Network in 1996 and ran there until 2005. Reruns of the show aired for US audiences during that time, leading to a revamp of the series called Talk Sex with Sue Johanson, which began stateside in 2002. The series, like its predecessor, featured a call-in segment that allowed viewers to submit their questions about sex, love and relationships to Johanson. The series ended its six-season run in 2008.
Over her lifetime, Johanson authored three books: Talk Sex, Sex Is Perfectly Natural but Not Naturally Perfect and Sex, Sex, and More Sex. She also contributed a weekly column to the health section of the Toronto Star.
Last year, Canadian documentary filmmaker Lisa Rideout released Sex with Sue, a full-length documentary about Johanson covering her life story. Relive some of Johanson's best moments in a trailer for the film below.
Johanson passed away in a long-term care facility in Thornhill, ON, surrounded by family. No cause of death has been revealed as of press time.
Born in Toronto in 1930, Johanson became a registered nurse after attending school at St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg. In 1970, she opened a birth control clinic at Toronto's Don Mills CI high school — the first of its kind in the country at the time. She would go on to further bolster her education in the areas of family planning and human sexuality at the University of Toronto and University of Michigan, which led to her career as a sex educator.
Sunday Night Sex Show began as a radio program on Q107 in the '80s, evolving into a television program on Rogers TV by 1985. It moved to Women's Television Network in 1996 and ran there until 2005. Reruns of the show aired for US audiences during that time, leading to a revamp of the series called Talk Sex with Sue Johanson, which began stateside in 2002. The series, like its predecessor, featured a call-in segment that allowed viewers to submit their questions about sex, love and relationships to Johanson. The series ended its six-season run in 2008.
Over her lifetime, Johanson authored three books: Talk Sex, Sex Is Perfectly Natural but Not Naturally Perfect and Sex, Sex, and More Sex. She also contributed a weekly column to the health section of the Toronto Star.
Last year, Canadian documentary filmmaker Lisa Rideout released Sex with Sue, a full-length documentary about Johanson covering her life story. Relive some of Johanson's best moments in a trailer for the film below.
