So at my school we just got done with our sex unit in health class. The thing that I hate about it is that our curriculum is focused on abstinence. We didn’t discuss contraception at all, and to sum up what they “taught us” for a month in three words would be something like “don’t do it.” Now I’m all for telling kids not to have sex because they won’t get an STD or pregnant, but I am totally opposed our teacher just teaching about abstinence.
We didn’t get taught about the benefits of not choking, but what to do if someone is choking.
We didn’t just get taught how to avoid injury, but what to do if someone is injured.
Oh yeah. On the last day of health a “doctor” came in and told us that at best, condoms only protect against STD’s 25% of the time. He also added that HIV could get through a condom, so condoms didn’t help at all with HIV.
He was also giving statistics that only 10% of teens know how to put a condom on (as a pro-abstinence argument), yet he also said he is against teaching teens how to use condoms
And another thing is that my health teacher makes it sound like it is extremely easy to get an STD (Like 100% of the time), even though somewhere else I read that the chances of getting an STD from unprotected sex with someone who has an STD is something like 1 in 500.
I’m with you. Teens are going to have sex, period. I think they should give out condoms in the schools, it is not really going to increase the number of peopel having sex.
I think that 1 and 500 satistic is wrong, I don’t know though. I think if those were the chanses they would have not made such a big deal about it. Maybe 1 and 50?
I agree with you that there should be more taught than just abstinence, but these arguments don’t work. Choking and injuries happen by accident. Have you ever heard of someone accidentally having sex?
My high school sex ed class was more like a human anatomy class than a “health” class.
Just be thankful you apparently have the brains to realise when you’re being lied to, it’s probably going to happen quite alot in school in the coming years.
I don’t think there needs to be an analogy to justify teaching more than just abstinence. You just need to pull your head out of the sand and see what teenagers are actually doing. The idea that we can prevent teens from having sex by not teaching them about it is ridiculous, at least in this age of mass media and the Internet.
Personally, preaching the whole abstinence thing to me has worked. Well, that and the fact that I’m clueless with girls. But I can understand why that would be a stupid thing to promote to teenagers who, by and large, act upon their impulses.
And I thought we Brits were screwed up about sex! I recall the the boys and girls were separated to make it easier to ask questions without embarrassment or something. I theorised that the girls were being introduced to the mysteries of the Dutch cap…
Don’t these moralising morons realise that kids these days are all Internet savvy? I recall that buying the damn things in person without my ears burning was the really tricky part
It seems a great tragedy (and also counter-productive) to me that sex is treated so stupidly at school. It is your parents’ business to instil in you whatever attitudes they regard as appropriate, and no doubt they have done so. IMO the school should just be making sure you’ve got your facts straight.
The acting is top notch, especially during the Q&A about halfway through haha!
