Sex education in the USA

[landr 126]

And what does "don't have to be medically inaccurate" mean? Unbelievable.

Sorry, I meant "don't have to be medically accurate."

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Sex should be kept secret and shameful, it's much more fun that way

[mota bhai 2,675]

Hmm, my home state still provides sex ed according to the map. It seems from the media that sex ed has changed, but we got a lot of it: in 5th grade boys and girls separated to have different "talks" (about changing bodies - that was embarrassing!); in 7th grade everyone, including boys, had to make a menses chart; we saw a heat sensor camera of a man in profile getting an erection (that freaked me out at age 12!); in high school we had a semester of health class where we mainly watched after school specials, but we did talk about contraception and how it worked, and someone brought in examples of condoms, diaphragms, IUDs, and stuff like that.

It's weird and sad to think that the standards of the past are now too "liberal and progressive" and that the religious right has been successful in getting this stuff out of classrooms. Usually this way thinking is that what was good in the past is still good for now, It's weird to think that on sex ed in schools, I am of this "conservative" camp, because I think that things should be the same as they were 20 years ago. The religious right wants to change things to how they were 100 years ago?

I found my sex ed very informative. And I did not get pregnant as a teenager. Good job, home state.

"home state"

so cloak and dagger, this one.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

"home state"

so cloak and dagger, this one.

Yeah, sorry! Otherwise you could find me!

[mota bhai 2,675]

Yeah, must be a really tiny home state.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

Yeah, must be a really tiny home state.

Hush, you!