Sex education in your school

[HotFezz8]

being english and liberal i got the whole story in year 6 (age 11) and again in years 7, 8, 9, and a quick revision in year 11 (there wasn't much by that point most people hadn#t tried... but anyway)
it got steadily more focussed and in depth (no pun intended ;-)) and we were never really in the dark about it. it was all right in our face. you didn't have to rummage for anything. it was hard to miss. we had long and hard discussions about it...

 

[Labyrinth]

I have an Amazingly low Opinion of sex education.

The Adulterers in the Class who would actually need the Knowledge gained Probably Learned it Previously from the internet, Leaving the Rest of us mildly irritated by its sheer Vulgarity.

Seriously, mankind has been Multiplying Long, long before we Figured out how to beat the Brains out of Each other with sticks.
We don't need some aged matron with a Laser-Pointer explaining to us what a Vagina is.

In all truth, if some poor harlot Didn't realize that sex produces CHILDREN, and if you make a Point of trying to Mate with Every Human you see and You contract a STD, that is NOT the fault of Schooling.

If someone didn't know about STIs or pregnancy, who's to say it isn't the fault of poor schooling? I learned about sex through peers, the internet, experience and various school initiatives. If you have entire generations of people, entire peer groups, who've had none of that, you will get problems. For example the high STI and teen pregnancy rates seen in the US.

 

[Player 2]

Our sex ed teacher taught us how to apply condoms with our mouths. Check and mate.

what, so you can blow yourself? weird.

 

[Roganwilson]

My school taught an abstinence-only program (in Washington, you lose funding if you don't) and used scare tactics so we didn't have sex. Luckily, my health teacher was a rebel, and aught us how to use condums. She was fired the next year for exactly that reason.

 

[Cmwissy]

I was talking to my friends at school and one of them called me a wank-stain.

I was then educated over a period of a day on what everything means.


I was 7.

 

[pirateninj4]

I kind of already knew how to do it, and where babies came from. I just needed some pro tips on how to get them to do it with me. Unfortunately that was not part of the sex ed we got and so I remained a nub for many awkward teenage years.

 

[johnman]

They got us to write down as many words in relation to sex as we all could.
My class won.
[sub]I like to think I played a big part in that.[/sub]

We did that on a whiteboard, we filled the entire thing and it was a year six tour that evening. Needless to say our teacher had some amusing things to tell us the next day.

My school taught an abstinence-only program (in Washington, you lose funding if you don't) and used scare tactics so we didn't have sex. Luckily, my health teacher was a rebel, and aught us how to use condums. She was fired the next year for exactly that reason.

How can the supposedly most advanced country in the world have polices like that? Religion and state should be separate.

 

[Lurchibald]

They did show us a video of a woman giving birth though. It was.. disgusting.

My class saw that video and lol the teacher said "You think thats bad?, Watch this!" and then threw the tape into reverse! 0.o

 

[ShadowsofHope]

They did show us a video of a woman giving birth though. It was.. disgusting.

My class saw that video and lol the teacher said "You think thats bad?, Watch this!" and then threw the tape into reverse! 0.o

That is something not EVER unseen. *Shivers*

 

[JohnnySex]

I live in America on the east coast. Abstinence, abstinence, abstinence, bythewaythisisacondom, abstinence, abstinence. Pretty much have to learn everything yourself.

 

[Soluncreed]

Our school attempts to push sex education as far back as possible until there is little or no time to discuss it.

 

[harmypants]

My school showed us a childbirth video, but with a pregnant woman showering - full frontal naked with a pregnant belly.

Wasn't sure whether to be turned on or disgusted until they showed the childbirth itself, which shifted me towards the latter...

 

[Eliam_Dar]

I went to a public school, we had sex education sinde 4th grade. I don't see the problem with it, honestly, why would people hide this information from their kids?

 

[GodofDisaster]

I went to a public school and I started my sexual education in Year eight and we just learnt the basics. Such as the different reproductive organs and there functions. It wasn't until year four that we began to learn the more advance lessons. Such as safe sex, the diseases you could catch and other features of the act.

 

[ElTigreSantiago]

We did learn everything inside of man 'n lady parts, but the rest was about STDs and abstinence.

 

[annoyinglizardvoice]

We got some basic stuff, but I'd already been told most of it from relatives who agreed with my opinion that ignorance causes more problems than knowledge.
I don't understand how people can survive in places where only abstinence is taught. It's just plain daft to my way of thinking.

 

[Matsu]

Oh dear. My sex ed program in my British state schools was informative, but bad enough to not really be taken seriously. Years 5 & 7 were just technical stuff - label the diagrams, etc.

Then, in Year 9, we get to the serious stuff, if you could call it that, with some memorable moments like:
-a guy blowing up the condom he was putting on a courgette/zucchini and rattling it around inside;

-an R.E. teacher who I am sure was a lesbian (she looked very butch) telling us the only conteception that worked 100% of the time is 'No';

Dude, I thought my middle school's health teacher was the only moron who said that shit. When my sister took that class, her teacher said the exact same thing, and she responded with "Then why do girls get pregnant from rape?"

She got detention for sassing the teacher.

 

[-Orgasmatron-]

Not very well.

In year 7 we watched a video of some naked family walking around their house naked and then a video of some women giving birth and curry came out of her vajayjay, that's about it.

Sorry if anyone's going for a curry later.

 

[Matsu]

We got some basic stuff, but I'd already been told most of it from relatives who agreed with my opinion that ignorance causes more problems than knowledge.
I don't understand how people can survive in places where only abstinence is taught. It's just plain daft to my way of thinking.

It's freakin' true. The hardcore Catholic side of my family that thinks Harry Potter was written by Satan refused to even allow any of their kids to go to any kind of sex ed classes and wouldn't teach them about sex themselves in any form; just "say no to sex before marriage" without even explaining what intercourse entails. One of my younger cousins believed that angels put babies in women's stomachs-- not uteri, stomachs-- right up until she was sixteen, when she got pregnant and had no idea how it happened.

 

[Plinglebob]

I can't remember any of the sex-ed we had at our school. Only thing I really remember is that is was fairly uncomfortable as they had both the boys and girls in the same class. Only sex education I actually remember is from Monty Python's Meaning of Life.