yeah, sex-related issues are about as easy to discuss as religion, and often tightly coupled / dictated by religion.

Now, politics and climate change seem to have also become religious topics - you cant discuss them without calling into question ones core identity, it seems.

Not sure how to get around this .. maybe the Street Epistemology approach, of essentially asking someone why they believe what they believe - examining ones beliefs without judgement.

It seems very infrequent that people change their beliefs based on facts - yet its a core tenet of science.