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jesselt
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http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/17/1883121/west-virginia-abstinence-assembly/
Did/does your school teach sex education? Abstinence only?
I went to high school in Idaho and my school (and as far as I know all schools in Idaho) teach abstinence only. We were explicitly told that any form of sex WILL lead to a sexually transmitted disease and likely pregnancy. It was hard to discern facts from fantasy. We were told condoms do not protect against most STDs and were told that condoms were like a form of mesh material where sperm has a hard time getting through but HIV is smaller so it goes right in between the fibers of the condom.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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| My teachers wrote: | | Sex Education? Ha, good luck with that. |
It worked wonders too. I'm pretty sure some of us made stupid mistakes, but damn did we learn a lot.
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Jimbob the Weedlord
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| Being from a first world country, we of course had full and comprehensive sex education. Including getting a flamboyantly gay man to come in and tell us what flavours of condoms tasted best, which to be perfectly honest felt a bit like I'd fallen into the Daily Mail's nightmare parody of Britain. On the balance of things, I'll take it. |
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What jimbob said
though we had a gay man come in who had AIDS from unprotected sex. He brought a bag full of condoms, which everyone took. But we would always spend a week or two on sex education in health class.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Dice wrote: | Fact: Abstinence training doesn't work
Eugh, I can't get into this, so I'll just leave this here:
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Don't have sex in the missionary position, don't have sex standing up. Just don't do it, promise?
Catholic school, abstinence
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My senior health class was pretty thorough in this area. It covered most types of birth control as well as bacterial/viral stds and what could be done to prevent/cure them. Abstinence was mentioned as the only 100% way to avoid STDs and pregnancy, but I remember some of the other methods having something like 90%+ success rate.
We also watched a bunch of corny Lifetime movies.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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The middle school I went to in California pretty much relied on abstinence-only in its sex education. I don't remember learning ANYTHING about condoms or birth control in all three years of classes. They were mentioned a few times but that was pretty much it. The rest of the class was pretty much just what happens to puberty, a super basic overview of how stuff works, babies, etc.
The first high school I went to didn't have sex ed classes but the second one I went to after I moved north had a few. I didn't have to attend them so I'm not sure what they taught.
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We were taught sex education. Although you had to get permission from your parents in order to participate.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 11:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Roadie wrote: | | The middle school I went to in California pretty much relied on abstinence-only in its sex education. I don't remember learning ANYTHING about condoms or birth control in all three years of classes. They were mentioned a few times but that was pretty much it. The rest of the class was pretty much just what happens to puberty, a super basic overview of how stuff works, babies, etc. |
That's pretty much how my middle school was.
And in high school they went over the same stuff. Can't say I was complaining because it ate up a semester of gym. 
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| Pretty sure I had at least one class on it. Not that I remember anything from it. |
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Catholic high school, part of Junior Morality class
None of us took it seriously because it was pretty much stuff we already knew (STDs, protection, periods, birth control, ovulation cycles, etc). Plus it was more of a Biology lecture than Sex Ed. Most of time was spent joking around.
Highlight: Jacking off once in a while is technically healthy
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| Zacewing wrote: | | We were taught sex education. Although you had to get permission from your parents in order to participate. |
They really should not ask the parents for permission. Sure if the parents are retarded enough that they want to sabotage their kid's education by opting them out of science classes in favor of whatever else they want to indoctrinate into them, that's their prerogative even though I'd still be knocking at their door against it. But depriving your kids of a proper sexual education in any manner is literally dangerous.
Yeah we had a pretty normal sex ed. They started in grade 5 and it was really confusing because the teacher was too embarrassed to do anything but play videos from the 80s. By Grade 8 we had another sex ed class and it was much better, but by that time most of the class was spent "lolol vagina" and it really wasn't very productive. But yeah normal stuff.
| Quote: | | It was hard to discern facts from fantasy. We were told condoms do not protect against most STDs and were told that condoms were like a form of mesh material where sperm has a hard time getting through but HIV is smaller so it goes right in between the fibers of the condom. |
teach your kids critical thinking skills everybody
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Our sex ed classes started in grade 4, and we had them every year up until grade 8 as part of our health unit.
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My high school is rather atypical from most Catholic high schools, as they taught us comprehensive sex stuff, from how birth control works (in terms of hormones), condoms, etc., as well as a gross slideshow about STDs. There was always the underscoring of the (perfectly accurate, really) idea that having one partner who has only had one partner is the only way to really guarantee that you never get anything, but they didn't treat it like every horny teenager was NOT going to experiment.
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