Chatting with a friend today I found out that all schools (or so she claims) are no longer teaching the sex ed they were teaching when I went to school. That is no more info on condoms, and other birth control methods. They only teach abstinence.
The idea is that if you teach them about sex, how to do it, etc, then kids are more likely to engage in it.
But the negative side is that the ones who are engaging in it are not aware how to protect themselves, so pregnancies among those who are having sex are on a rise.
Regardless of whether pregnancies are on the rise or not, since when did the Bush administration switch all the schools to abstinence-teaching methods.
Well, let me rephrase that. I was told that Bush’s administration is withdrawing federal funding from schools that decide to talk about condoms. The ones who go the way of abstinence are given funding…
Did I miss the boat here? Man, I’ve been living under a rock.
a fella told me that he had his first sex with a class mate right after the sex ed class at school and IN the school itself cz the “education” left him and other students too bothered to keep control.
I remember my H.S. brother bringing stickers/caps and even a CD case which said something along the lines of "it is good to wait". He was keeping his CDs in that case and I was like ugh! I didn't know they had stopped w/ the sex-ed and started w/ the abstinence-ed. Good info to know!
Man I wetn to a CATHOLIC school, and they taught us proper sex-ed. These ultra conservative republicans, are just as freaky and kinky behind doors as “regular” people. For them, ti’s okay to order hookers/call girls but you want birth control, ooooohhh noooooo thas immorallllllll
Its a tough issue. I can totally see that guys get turned on. After our first sex-ed class in 5th grade - guys were shown a movie in one room and girls were shown another movie in another room. (as a result, the process of sperm processing has always been something more difficult for me to remember as a bio student - mainly because I get the vas deferens and semi-whatchya ma call em tubes mixed up )
When the guys came back into our room, the pudgy kid who sits in front of us (he apparently already knew something of girls, I guess), asked us if we could show him how to put on a pad.
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So I guess I can see how sex-ed can leave guys turned on. Which might make them want to run into the next bathroom stall with some fellow classmate and do the horizontal dance. Well vertical in a bathroom stall…but that is besides the point.
AT the same time, because these kids cannot even be answered if they ask where they can get condoms from, etc - they’re having unprotected sex when they are having sex…
I’m guessing you can’t get condoms in school anymore either, right? I think there used to be a condom machine on campus.
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