Bad Sex Ed classes

[silver wolf009]

See, I disagree with that lady in the video. Barring a run in with a an Aids monkey, two monogamous, STI free people would be hard pressed to contract an STI.

Monogamy is effective at stopping infection; a close circuit is a good system.

She doesn't say monogamy. The bad sex ed example is "The true love of marriage will protect us from STI's".

So the only way to disagree with her is if you think marriage will protect you from an STI.

Anyway our sex ed was quite normal and I guess informative. Though this one time we did see a baby's head being squeezed out of a vagina. Thats.. A lot of people say childbirth is beautiful.. It's.. It's not beautiful..

I associated true love with monogamy. I didn't think that's a very big leap...

You also apparently associated it with virginity and a lack of drugs.

Which is a big leap.

Never said anything about virginity, or drugs. I said they had to be infection free, not sexually inactive, and comically alluded to a situation that involved poor judgement on behalf of a drug user and his monkey.

Further, wouldn't an infect transmitted by needle not be classified as an STI?

Nope a STI is a class of infections that can be transmitted via the exchange of fluids common during sex. It dose not have to be caught via nookie to be an STI, and if you catch a cold from your sex partner it's not an STI.

Most STI's are blood infections, not in seaman or vaginal fluids. You just have a very good chance of exchanging a small amount of blood during sex.

Ah. Thank you for your help. Now I know.

 

[Fox12]

This was in California by the way. You'd think that in a liberal state like that we would have gotten something better than the abstinence bullshit they teach in the bible belt.

I was raised in the deep rural south, and we didn't even hear the words "abstinence" in class, at least not in a serious context. Our teachers basically told us that the only way to truly avoid disease was to not have sex, but since they knew we were all having sex already, we should be safe. Then they taught us about our, uh, mechanics, and gave us awkward homework with our parents. Pretty cut and dry, actually, and pretty thorough. Honestly, I think that bible belt stuff mostly applies to old people. Most people my age don't care.

I have heard some pretty good stories, though, outside of school. There's the famous civil war bullet story, where a bullet supposedly pierced some poor soldiers genitals, then ricocheted into a nearby house and impregnated a young woman. There's the lovely story of a sister who used her brothers soap in the shower, and then supposedly got pregnant because his sperm was on it (hey, I didn't say all southern stereotypes were false). Then there's the classic story of the woman who got pregnant (wait for it) by sitting on a gas station toilet seat. Classic, really.

 

[EeveeElectro]

Mine was pretty lacking from what I remember. It was pretty much, "hello, penis goes in vagina, sperm, babies happen. Lots of periods happen. Also STDs."

They got us to put condoms on our friends fingers cos that makes so much fucking sense. They never talked to us about consent, feelings, relationships, same sex relationships or transgenders. We had lessons after lessons of periods and the biological side of carrying a baby. That's fine and all, but I believe the emotional side needs to talked about in detail.

We had someone come in once and talk to us about STDs with pictures and stuff. They gave us chlamydia tests to take, hah. Throughout all my sex ed classes they just seemed to care about protection and not the people who were having the sex ;-;

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

In England, or at least London, I had pretty decent Sex-ed classes.

They were part of a greater subject called PSHC-RE, which covered many things from citizenship, religion, general health and sex ed. Usually, the teachers assigned to teach these classes were calm and measured, and followed the guidelines instead of stating their opinions as fact.

Surprisingly enough, everyone in the class was being respectful and mature about it, so yeah, I had pretty decent lessons.

Not that I remember most of them though. Life as a hermit confines me to my one true love: cave mushrooms!

 

[Sleepy Sol]

Never got a decent sex-ed class.

Mississippi for ya. All about abstinence and whatnot without actually, well...educating about anything.

I probably did more self sex-ed in a day or two than any of those... weeks-long classes did.

 

[Aurion]

Pretty basic, and it was folded into a larger Health class (diet, exercise, etc). This is what the parts are, this is how they fit together, here's a horribly uncomfortable awkward video about childbirth, condoms and birth control are good, STDs are bad, and since the school says I have to say this yay abstinence.

A bit short on useful information, but at least it wasn't some flagrantly insane sex-is-evil frenzy. It helped that the teacher was pretty chill.

 

[joshuaayt]

From what I remember from sex ed the teacher was fine. She didn't lie about it, she didn't pretend it was some horrible thing to be avoided. She used humour which made everything less awkward.
She taught anatomy, safe sex and STDS, legal (like age, consent and child support), general safety stuff (like don't leave drinks unattended in bars though I'm not sure that was actually in the curriculum) and a little bit of relationship advice. She didn't really fear monger though she did tell us about some awful thing that happened to her/ her friends and mistakes she had made.

I don't know that I learnt much as I'd already been taught most of these thing but the school teaching was fine.

We did have to watch a shitty video with a pervy rubber duck thing that was blowing bubbles off adults to revel their genitals and symbolised sex with cats rubbing against each other and exploding. It was running joke in the class to pretend like we thought pulling out was an effective method of birth control to annoy the teacher.

Hey, we had that same video!
Sex Ed in Australia- or NSW, at least- seems pretty solid for the most part, if a little bit delayed. I still think it should be taught at the very beginning of high school, if not before that. I didn't learn anything through it, because I already knew it.
At least they didn't tell us anything that wasn't true.