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Post by ponygirl's vapor on Feb 26, 2004 18:14:34 GMT -5
like someone said earlier, i would be seriously embarressed if my parents taught me about sex. i had just the basics or whatever in 5th grade. and this year, 7th, we watch a "extremely graphic" video- according to the teacher. she said it embarresses the boys, but not the girls.  |
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Post by StellaFantasia on Feb 26, 2004 22:08:19 GMT -5
I think 13 is a fine age to be teaching sex ed. It should probably be younger. I remember when I was in 3rd grade, I had a friend over my house who had already had the "sex talk" from her parents, and I literally had NO IDEA that that's what happened. I was blown away. My parents never gave me a sex talk, although I do remember once my mom said "Nice girls wait til they're married". It was completely out of context, and I was about 18. I think I said "Nice girls wait to what, Mom?" just to make her squirm. Anyway, my point is, I'd rather have learned in a better, less traumatic way, but I don't think we had sex ed in school until I was about 15. (Side note, though: in 6th grade, the school nurse took aside all the girls in class and showed us a filmstrip on menstruation. It had those weird old pads with A BELT on them. I don't think it mentioned tampons at all. This would have been in about 1990...didn't they stop making those pads with belts in like, the 50s?? I am still baffled over how the school board couldn't find $30 in its budget to buy an UP TO DATE filmstrip.)
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Post by MambaduMal on Feb 26, 2004 23:22:09 GMT -5
O.o That's horrible, why freak you out with one of those belts if you'll never in your lifetime have to wear one? I remember that the menstruation lesson in fifth grade was just the three (female) fifth grade teachers coming into the class, showing a movie, then talking about their first times having a period. It was weeeeird... Then my mom bought me a book. There were some pages I simply refused to look at (i.e. the illustrations of naked men) so I had no idea what went on with guys until I had to learn it in science and health class. My parents wouldn't talk about it... they said if I had any questions I could always ask. So I decided to test that out... one day I asked my mom, "what's a virgin?" and she was like "well... um... it's a woman who has never slept with a man..." I, having only read the factual book, did not know the term "slept with" and assumed it meant sleeping in the same room/bed. It freaked me out. And her definition wasn't even correct, as men can be virgins. I know none of you really wanted to hear all this But it does show you how sheltered some kids are... I think sex ed is a great thing, because some parents really can't give their kids the "talk". I (as many of you know) usually blush at the very mention of sex, and I wish that I was in an environment where it was treated as a biological process instead of something people kept putting off telling me about. |
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Post by embah on Feb 27, 2004 2:35:09 GMT -5
I learned all about it in primary school in year 7, and now in high school we're doing it all again! What really annoys me is the boys though, they're all so immature about it, especially when the teachers start talking about *girl things* so to speak.
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Post by negativenine on Feb 27, 2004 23:09:02 GMT -5
BELTS? Oh my lord... that's scarring. We need to start a support group for you or something. Ugh. Scary. Wasn't there a Saturday Night Live sketch where they made fun of those terrible things? It was funny... I think I asked my parents about sex when I was about 6... I'd seen a movie where a kid stalled her dad while her brothers escaped from the cellar with puppies by asking him where babies came from. So naturally I was curious... I wonder how many sex talks that movie initiated that way...  |
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Post by lucklemony on Feb 29, 2004 11:02:08 GMT -5
we had to watch those movies too. omg. it was horrible. all us boys were like wanting to throw up. but the girls were just laughing.
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Post by Brian on Feb 29, 2004 13:23:42 GMT -5
I think it's important to teach sex ed in schools. I don't know why a school wouldn't. Because sex is evil? Puh-leez! Sure, there are some corallaries of it that, well, shouldn't be highlighted in society, but the earlier you know, the better. Not too early, of course. ("Eeeeew!")
My school starts it at the end of fifth grade.
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Post by Shaffuru! on Feb 29, 2004 14:42:11 GMT -5
I haven't had a sex ed class yet... my class watched a little video about puberty in grade 5, and we were supposed to watch one about sex in the seventh grade, but we never did..
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Post by Brian on Feb 29, 2004 14:42:52 GMT -5
How old are you that you haven't?
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Post by Shaffuru! on Feb 29, 2004 14:46:39 GMT -5
I'll be 14 tomorrow. ^_^
... it's not like I don't know about it. It's just we haven't had any classes and one of my friends is just.. terribly uninformed. She knows next to nothing.
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Post by Brian on Feb 29, 2004 14:52:26 GMT -5
Yeah. Some of my friends know too much, if you know what I mean. Most likely from the media.
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Post by Madamluna on Feb 29, 2004 14:54:08 GMT -5
It involves a lot of poking and squishing.
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Post by lucklemony on Feb 29, 2004 15:02:25 GMT -5
arent any of you embarrased to talk this way?
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Post by Brian on Feb 29, 2004 15:44:20 GMT -5
Why would we be? Unlike most Americans, we are only partially drawn in by the evils of society.
;D
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Post by Madamluna on Feb 29, 2004 15:54:48 GMT -5
You wouldn't believe the stuff I say on Instant Messenger. Misspelling "rapping" as "raping" sparked the most hilarious conversation I've had all day.
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