Sex Education

I went to an all girls high school, and I think we got taught pretty good Sex Education.

We learnt all about the different kinds of contraception and stuff like that. And how they are used. ....And also how to put a condom on. Yes..even though it's an all girls school.

This was in Year 9 and 10 when we did this..so..I would have been 15 - 16.

Anyhoo, I think it should be taught. I mean, there's probably going to be at least one person in your grade that ends up having a child while they're still a teenager. But it helps for the majority of people. :shifty

Because I go to an all girls catholic school, they pretty much teach us that we all have to wait until we are married before we have sex. They kind of just tell us to wait and then move on. i think that maybe they should teach us more about STD's at least. So we have some sort of idea.

Okay, I said this exact same thing in the Pre-Martial Sex forum:

Abstinence shouldn't be the only thing taught in schools. The classes should be about pure sex.
It's like a persuasive essay, if you think about it...The class tells you to stay abstinent, and refrain from sex until marriage, but they don't supply you with a counter argument. Supply us with a god damned counter argument, and we'll respond to it better!

Oh, and when I say 'pure sex', I mean we should learn stuff like...

- Body parts and what they do
- Every single disease and what they do to your body
- Also how to check yourself to see if you have an STD
- Boys should actually be taught about a woman's vagina, same with girls to a man's penis
- What are horomones, how do they change us
- How to use a condom (girls should know this, too)
- How birth control works (guys need to learn, too)
- How pregnancy works (guys also)
- A woman's menstrual cycle (guys, too)
- Facts about SPERM (like, how long they live when exposed to oxygen)
- What can be pleasurable (pleasure can affect how our mind works, and we could make the wrong decision, depending on how hot we're getting)
- What hurts
- What sex can be like for virgins
- Homosexuality (lesbian/anal sex)
- We should learn about sexual torture
- FGM (Female Genital Mutilation)
- Sex toys (I guess that's a bit optional)
- How abortion works
- NOT JUST ABSTINENCE

I understand that there are parents who don't want there kids to be taught about this stuff in the classroom, and that they'd rather teach the children themselves. But, parents don't know everything.
Yes, the class would probably be as awkward as hell, but atleast teenagers would be more aware.

My Sex Ed teacher showed us how guys put on condoms...
Using a banana... It was funny, but most of the guys blushed.
She even showed us footage of things..

My school doesn't have anything like this.
I think all schools should.
I mean, if not then you have no clue about anything.

You know, one of the main arguements againt sex ed is that learning about it makes kids want to do it. Well, I am in Algebra, and learning about algebra certainly doesn't make me want to rush home after school and start working out polynomials.

The education isn't what makes teenagers want to have sex, being educated just increases the chance that if they do choose to have sex, they'll be smart and safe about it as opposed to being ignorant and uninformed.

I'm in year nine and half of the kids lost their virginity ages ago, we havent had sex ed since year 6 when we learnt about breast shapes and periods. Yeah that totally helped us.

I seriously thought it was compulsary in all schools.

I learnt about it in Year 9 and 10. And then we had another whole DAY for sex education, relationship education (like, how to recognise abusive relationships and stuff) and all stuff like that in Year 12.

Why don't all schools teach this?

I first got taught Sex Ed. when I was around 12. We got taught why people want to have sex, how you have sex, and what stuff was - wet dreams, masturbation. We also got told facts like you can't get pregnant from kissing and how you can actually get pregnant as well as contraception. I remember we dared a girl in my glass to ask why there was flavored condoms.

Then, in High School, we got taught it again as well as more about STD/STI's and pregnancy. We also got a little about gay sex as well as putting a condom on plastic penis - using a condom of your choice as well as lube.

They should teach thorough Sex Ed. in all schools regardless. It'll benefit so many people.

Kurtni Von Teese:

You know, one of the main arguements againt sex ed is that learning about it makes kids want to do it. Well, I am in Algebra, and learning about algebra certainly doesn't make me want to rush home after school and start working out polynomials.

The education isn't what makes teenagers want to have sex, being educated just increases the chance that if they do choose to have sex, they'll be smart and safe about it as opposed to being ignorant and uninformed.

But then again sex is generally considered more appealing than algebra. :shifty

I think yeah, in some cases if children know about safe sex then they'll be more interested in doing now that they're more knowledgeable about the subject but it should still be taught in school.
After all, if it really did encourage them I think most people would rather their child found out about sex the right way and used protection of some kind rather than eventually having sex with no idea what they're doing and getting pregnant.

Romanticide.:

But then again sex is generally considered more appealing than algebra. :shifty

But what makes it appealing isn't what you learn in school, but what you see on TV or read in magazines.

At my old school, we learned of all the types of STDs, and protection. It was a short, but we learned most of the stuff we needed to know. The way they tought it, was go ahead and have sex if you really want, but be safe.

Our school only had about two pregnancies the whole time I was there.

It also tied in with some of science class. I thought it was pretty okay.

At my school, we desperately need a sex educations class.
Every year, estimated, there is at least 4 or 5 girls that end up pregnant.
Not a lot of these girls have the recourses and at my school, they don’t provided them.
I had to learn how a boy puts on a condom BY MYSELF!
A lot of girls have the ignorance to think that the first time is safe
Its not.
Its need because its needed :/

Sex Ed is just part of Health class, which we only get freshman and sophomore year.
The Health classes are taught by our nurse, Ms. Katchpole. We just call her Katch, and she's basically made of awesome.
And let me tell you, when I had Health sophomore year, Sex Ed with Katch was fucking hilarious.

We had sex ed in year 7, so we were only about 12 or 13.

It was good that we had it, and they continually mention things such as HIV/AIDS in years above year seven, but at the age or 12 or 13 we were still a little immature and didn't really felt like the sex stuff applied to us.

Of course, the puberty stuff applied to us because we needed to know that for when we... got there.

I think my class never got the specific sex ed class. For some reason something else always came up, and they never got round to teaching us. We heard about it from other forms, though, and from what I gathered the banana and condom example was used too. Popular, eh?

We pretty much learnt about sex in general in biology, but nothing too extensive - just what was in the curriculum and what we needed to pass our exams. But we never had just sex ed classes.

above the influence:

She even showed us footage of things..

One of my Older friends (She's in year 11, She's 16) Was talking to me and she mentioned that she was thinking about sleeping with her boyfriend of 4 years.

I told her that if she did that she should use a condom and she says to me
"But Tash, Its not as If I'm going to get HIV or something, Right?"
I had to explain to her that HIV is passed through sez, She thought it was only through blood.

Thats how bad our schools Sed Education, Oh Yeah we get Outstanding in everything by Ofsted But a 16 year old doesn't know how HIV is transmitted.

Teach 'em.
Tell them it's not a bad thing; tell them what the law is, tell them what the consequences are. Be honest. Be as unbiased as you possibly can. Then let them make their mistakes and try to support them.

Ignorance was the punishment that God lay on the world.
When he struck down the tower of Babel, and spread humans across the planet with different languages - that secured the, ah, security of heaven. Stopped humans being a threat. We lost our enlightenment.
Ignorance, that's the biggest punishment.
Forcing ignorance on people, that's one of the biggest sins.