Sex Education

"Sex" education? It freakin' teaches us nothing about sex, except that STDs are bad and if you have sex you'll either get them and die, or get pregnant and die alone!
I was reading the sex ed. book at the end of the year last year and it sai that you shouldn't have sex until you're married and it only talked about actual sex for half a chapter. And only straight sex.
I lost interest pretty quickly.

All they tell us is that we will eventually die if we have sex
we'll get STD's or have a kid and everyone will hate us.
I know that we're told not to have sex, but many people do.
I think they should also tell us what to do if we ever do have sex.
They should tell us how to handle it if we do get a STD or if we get pregnant.

PokeyyProds:

All they tell us is that we will eventually die if we have sex

Riiiight. :mrgreen:

We don't really have a sex education class in our country. I like learned the reproductive system on our Biology Class. But I think there's a bill that was passed that stated that sex education should be taught. :shifty

I learned more about sex out of class than in. They only teach you what to look for in STD's, and how messed up you'll be when you get them. Oh, and I learned about what a baby looks like in a girl's stomach.

I think they need to step it up a bit, tell us the real truth. Its so bad here, we have a daycare, and a parenting class for all the teen moms. The daycare's full too.

Okay. Well, in year 8 we got the periods speech, which sadly I missed because I was at my orthodontist...
Year 9 we learnt the sciencey stuff. And we saw some very, very, very scary videos. Seriously. Where do they get these people?? In the birthing scene there were kids screaming...
Year 10 we learnt contraception.
This year they tried to teach us the emotinal side of it and failed miserably... basically they gave us out worksheets that always had the same story on it, basically about some girl/ boy on holiday and meeting someone who pressures them into sex... every week we discussed it... and basically it all resulted in the teacher telling us to wait till marriage...

I'm told that next year we have to watch more videos... even worse than the ones we saw in year 9... and one of them is called, and I swear to God I am not making this up, "COMING TOGETHER."

Think about it...

And you don't really learn useful stuff. I'm still not entirely sure what AIDS is because they've never taught us anything about it. I learn more from outside the classroom, useful stuff like having sex standing up is not an effective contraceptive...

And homosexuality is never mentioned at all, which annoys the hell out of me. I mean, I'm bi, it'd be really useful if someone would tell me how to have safe sex with another girl. Because I can't exactly use a condom :shock:

Masturbation has only been mentioned, briefly, during a video in Religion class. I think they told us it was a sin, I'm not even sure anymore.

We're going through Sex Ed now
And it was...
erghh..
I couldnt handle my [male] teacher saying words like "Vagina" and "Masturbation" ...
I wasnt all giggly, I was just a little...creeped out.

And then he told us dirty jokes.
:lmfao
They were hilariousss..

And now I really cant look at him the same way.
:oops:

Kurtni Parlo:

PokeyyProds:

All they tell us is that we will eventually die if we have sex

Riiiight. :mrgreen:

Won't you eventually die anyways?

:shifty

I think that all kinds of sex education should be taught. Abstinence, included, for those who want to be, but also information on how to protect yourself in case you aren't abstinent. =]

We got taught about the basics of sex in grade 6, and about periods and safe sex and everything like that.
And then in year seven, we were meant to, but we kinda didn't end up doing it.
And then in year nine in PE, we did a heap about sex, especially STI's and contraception. Which was really good, because it was really informative. :XD
Andddd later this year my PE class has to do it again. We're an all girls class and my teacher who's a guy said he really isn't looking forward to it.

But yeah, I think it's a very necessary thing to have in school. You need to know what you're...up against :XD. We were taught a little about abstinence, but the lady who taught us, Wendy, understood that most of us weren't planning on waiting, and just talked more about protection against everything under the sun. :XD

Also, my friend who's a lesbian, demanded that Wendy teach us about homosexual sex, because we needed to know, but she refused

I honestly think we are informed rather well, but only in our later years. Well, at my Catholic school yes. I think they should've delved more deeper into sexuality etc. We just learnt mostly about STI's and sex itself. Which was disappointing, because the only thing we learnt about homosexuals was it was against Catholic beliefs. Rather sad actually.

All they taught us was that sex is bad. I learned more about the subject on my own by chance, then what they taught there. I mean seriously, all they tell us is, "Stay abstinent."

They barely touched pregnancy and diseases. They should delve a bit deeper so that kids can get a firm grasp on what they are doing. They also neglected contraception of any kind, saying that it would only encourage sexual activity. This is bull and everyone knows it since over half my class was sexually active.

Shattered Music:

All they taught us was that sex is bad. I learned more about the subject on my own by chance, then what they taught there. I mean seriously, all they tell us is, "Stay abstinent."

They barely touched pregnancy and diseases. They should delve a bit deeper so that kids can get a firm grasp on what they are doing. They also neglected contraception of any kind, saying that it would only encourage sexual activity. This is bull and everyone knows it since over half my class was sexually active.

That is ridiculous. It's hard enough for your parents to teach you but the school not assisting in the matter, it just leads poor undereducated minds to the vulnerable world. Being thrust into a world without that knowledge is detrimental....
What type of school do you go to honestly?

I thought I had quite good sex education at my high school. It was tied in with out health classes in years 8 and 9, and we learned about STDs, pregnancy, the male and female sexual organs etc., but also about sexual relationships and a bit about love as well. They mainly tried to teach the whole 'love' thing from out perspective and age, but it wasn't bad.
And in year 9, we also got to learn how to put a condom on a guy :XD
We had to get into groups of three, and we were given this... dildo, I guess? A fake penis. But it wasn't an actual dildo, like from a sex shop. It was actually quite fun.

And I went to an all girls school, so there wasn't any of the 'separating boys and girls' thing that they sometimes to at co-ed schools.

Human Error:

I thought I had quite good sex education at my high school. It was tied in with out health classes in years 8 and 9, and we learned about STDs, pregnancy, the male and female sexual organs etc., but also about sexual relationships and a bit about love as well. They mainly tried to teach the whole 'love' thing from out perspective and age, but it wasn't bad.
And in year 9, we also got to learn how to put a condom on a guy :XD
We had to get into groups of three, and we were given this... dildo, I guess? A fake penis. But it wasn't an actual dildo, like from a sex shop. It was actually quite fun.

And I went to an all girls school, so there wasn't any of the 'separating boys and girls' thing that they sometimes to at co-ed schools.

Unfair! Even at my all girls school they didn't do that! I mean, no condom on banana thing. I know my cousin's all girls Catholic school did that in year seven. We never did it. Our teacher said: "We don't expect you to know this, because you of course will never use one." The whole marriage then sex thing reoccurrence. :grr:

I remember we had a male sub for the class once. F*cking great too, because he taught us so much more than our female Health teacher. He literally went:

"And the penis enters the vagina, that is how sex happens." :lmfao

^Haha :XD

Well, I didn't go to a Catholic school. It was just a public all girls school.
But I don't think sex education in highschool should necessarily be about teaching kids how to have sex, or how sex literally happens, because most kids (by the time they're about 13 or 14) know what sex is. I think it's more beneficial to teach them about sex in terms of safe sex, the consequences of unsafe sex, and I also think there should be more emphasis on relationships. Especially teenage relationships (obviously, because high school students are teens).

I find it quite sad when I hear about schools teaching abstinence-only 'sex ed'. There's something about it that I find really backward.

^Completely true. I'm pretty sure they watch television. :shifty

Actually the girl who asked had no idea what happened during sex. It was rather sad actually. Poor girl came out scarred for life. I was the same when I first asked my step-mum (who happens to be a nurse); especially when you have younger siblings. :XD

I think that approaching sex in a negative way also means that people will become uncomfortable with something that's so natural. If you get what I mean.

They should do that as a topic, teenage relationships, because we were never educated on that. We were just left to fend for ourselves. -sigh-

It's like , for God's sake...every fricking book is like "it should be an open subject and it's nothing to be ashamed of" etc etc. So why do we have to take classes on it? Why can't we just be left to find out from ordinary people who don't give a refined definition?

I pretty much slept through Sex ed.
All they did was teach the reproductive organs and told us we would get AIDS if we had sex. :XD
There's a reason I slept through it. :XD

In our health class last year, we learned about all the STD's/ STI's and the contraceptives and all the reproductive organs and such. It was actually a through unit, which I think is good; if you learn all the facts, at least you know what you're getting into, right?

^ Amen, Kaitlyn. xD
I remember all the guys blushing in eighth grade when we did our unit in health class. Actually, come to think of it, I was the only one who didn't blush. My mind was screwed up then and still is.
Best friends are good for a few things. Sexual Education, and giving you some good slash to read.
Actually, the majority of that unit, we watched a movie on the reproductive process and how babies come out of the uterus.
Now, I'm in Human Anatomy and Physiology and we just finished a small segement on it. I wanted so badly to say, "THE STORK BRINGS THE BABY!"