I have lived in Georgia for most of my life. Not a place too endorsing of sexuality. In middle school during mandatory health class (we had to take at least once a year) there was a two-week period of Sex Ed class. 90% of the class was vaguely worded abstinence crap and threats of STD's. I clearly remember one kid asking about masturbation (something pretty inoccuous, like "Is it harmful?" or something) and the teacher told him he wouldn't talk about "that".
It's funny how the government/our leaders/etc. still refuse to talk about sex openly. I think those anti-drug commercials that say "If you don't talk to your child about drugs, how will he know what to do?" are true about sex as well. Parents won't talk to their kids about sex, so all the kids have to go on is the totally immoral shit they see on TV/hear in music.
roflcopter, here, we practice abstinence too of course....but then, they told us, if we "absolutely had to have sex", then do it right and keep it safe. They gave us the motto. "Fire in the fireplace is safe and beautiful." hahahaha awwww man, still cracks me up to this day.....
I want to know why nobody advocates teen sex. It's a typical face-off between the Republicans taking the radical "our way or the highway" stance and actually making laws get passed, and the Democrats being all wussy and saying "welllll I guess I agree with you that sex is evil and a sin, but kids should have the right to education anyway." And then they wonder why their kids are such insecure geeks.
Sex is the plague of human interaction. Introducing it at an earlier age sets people up for failure and misery sooner.
I remember attending a sex ed program in fifth grade, though all we did was watch a film. Girls and boys were 'taught' seperately.
The only thing I remember is some 85 year-old guy saying "Sex is precious!"
our school system never taught sex ed, they were worried that they would get flak from either side. they expected our parents to teach us about it, but my parents are too shy to talk to me about it. i decided to research it on my own and so began my wonderful addiction to internet porn.
I had a similar experiance in fifth grade. The boy's film mostly talked about things like wet dreams and (lack of) foreskins. IIRC it was produced by Disney.
>>13
lol, I now have an image of Mickey talking about STD's.
>>1-15
Bleh, lucky bastards. Where I live (Texas), Sex Ed isn't allowed in schools, period.
Sex ed in school is just so stupid. It is just a generally unconfortable class with half the class cracking jokes and us 'learning' stuff we knew already.
I'd think most of us got our sex ed outside of school. And it's not necessarily bad either.
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I swear to God, I thought that was how you did italics. Oh well.
"ABSTINENT UNTIL MARRIAGE BECAUSE I HAVE SELF-ESTEEM!!" My mom got pissed and told us that no one should be abstinent until marriage because you could end up with someone sexually incompatible. Good advice IMO"
Is that really true? My parents tell me the exact opposite and you could acquire STDs like that. (~.~)
>>26
That's the second time I heard that bull.
"You should have sex before marriage because you might end up sexually incompatible, otherwise!"
Condoms and common sense, motherfucka! DO YOU USE THEM?!
>>27 sex is a very important thing in the relationship. One of the reasons that people cheat on the other is because they are sexually incompatible with each other.
That is pure bullshit. "Oh I am not satisfied at home blah blah blah" Seriously you can fix that by telling your SO that you have a problem in the bed and you want to fix it. Usually people cheat because they are not mature enough to have a relationship with another person.
Cheating has nothing to do with maturity and everything to do with evolutionary psychology. Men by nature seek to expose their genes to as many different hosts as possible; at the same time, he chooses a superior single mate that will have multiple (or surely one) children. Therefore, he will have children benefiting from genetic variety as well as the choicest traits of his primary mate (eventually). Abstaining from this impulse is a difficult task, especially if sexual incompatibility is involved. Imagine not masturbating (or having sex for the more fortunate among us) for a week or two. Now think about not masturbating for months on end, maybe just on your birthday. And yet daily you are bombarded with porn, tempting you, never relenting. It's not surprising to me that so many people end up cheating.
Cheating on someone is breaking a promise, if was your spouse or just a SO. When you entered that relationship you promised that you will only be with each other. If one decides to cheat on the other that is breaking that promise and in my opinion is grounds for breaking that relationship. Maturity is basically abstaining from impulses to the best of your ability and using reason to guide your life not instict. Children are not mature because they use more impulses than reason. And most people are never mature even when they are 80 years old because maturity is not dependent on age but intelligence capacity and responsibility.
Sex ed in schools? In my school there was only ONE sex ed lesson in 8th grade.
Where I live, you only can learn about sex from TV, books and the Internet. Probably they think that if they don't do sex ed, then adolescents won't start sex too soon. Well that's bullshit.
Interest in sex is awaken by hormones and instincts, NOT the knowledge about sex. And if adolescents can only learn about sex from the TV, they'll have a false imagination on it. That's why people often start sex too early and not because the sex ed.
lol, the current topic will go no whee with so many conflicting opinions
I knew other people might define it their own way and/or come up with excuses for it, which is why I said:
>Abstinence until marriage doesn't make sense. If you love somebody deep from your heart, you want to give them the greatest pleasure you can.
>>35
Heh, are you ridiculing me?
> And yet you wouldn't marry them if you loved them that much?
For people that really love each other, marriage is useless. Infact, marriage is an insult to love.
>>37
Err.. I don't really get how it's an insult, though. Please elaborate more on this.
>>41
fail. correct answer is baby don't hurt me, no more
I still love that southpark episode about sex ed
>>42
You also fail!
The correct answer is: "Baby don't hur me, don't hurt me, no more."
I really lucked out with my sex ed class. They taught us everything we needed to know. They taught us about various different types of birth control, different types of STDs, as well as the anatomy of sex and birth. It was a really good program
When I took health in high school there was a whole unit on STDs and protection and stuff (yes this was taught to me earlier but I only remember high school). Basically my teacher just said the information and told us the facts. He said "I'm just going to tell you the information, I'm not telling you what to do. If you choose have sex before marraige, go ahead and do so. If you choose not to, thats fine too." Sex ed should be like that.
It never ceses to amaze me how ignorant many people are about sex, the make up of genatalia, and how stds are spread. Sex ed, if taught at all, is taught too late in schools. By the time I had sex ed, I had a pregnant classmate. All elementry schools should have sex ed, so that it is taught BEFORE puberty. It SHOULD be the parents' jobs to teach about sex, but many aren't; so for those who's parents did it can just be an easy A. It doesn't need to push abstenence, nor that sex is good; it needs to be presented in a completly biological way, and should be a standard part of biology/science class. Vaginal trolls are the #2 cause of penis enjuries in young boys. We must educate them before it is too late.
It never ceses to amaze me how ignorant many people are about sex, the make up of genatalia, and how stds are spread. Sex ed, if taught at all, is taught too late in schools. By the time I had sex ed, I was moving with my auntie and uncle in Bel Air. I whistled for a cab, and when it came near, the license plate said "fresh" and it had dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cat was rare, but I thought "Nah forget it, Yo home to Bel Air." I pulled up to the house about seven or eight,