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 Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:24 pm
my health class never discussed sex ed, except, "These are the safe contraceptions and how you use them"
I learned most of my "Sex ed" in biology, which as you can expect, was highly focused on the cells and DNA factors. We also watched the "Dumb lisa" episode of Simpsons.
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:30 pm
Goddess, the sexual education I got from public school was abstinence only, don't have sex until you're married, bullshit. There was so little talk of birth control (and no mention of abortion, ever) that someone in my 8th grade class dropped out to have a baby.
I think we learned the names of different birth controls in high school. Still no help in how to use them.
We did get some Christian group come to our school and put on an assembly implying that if you have sex (even with a condem) you will get AIDS.
Yeah, I'm lucky that I read enough to find great books (like Our Body's Ourselves) which actually told me how to have sex, use birth control, and think for myself.
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:17 pm
Well... my sex ed... I didn't really have any... We had the usual "how the organs work, and what happens in pregnancy and childbirt" in 6th grade, and in... 7th/8th grade, don't really remenber, we talked about the period (including how to make a chart to know the "risky days", some of my female classmates where VERY interested in it...), STDs and how we can get them (special focus on HIV/AIDS), and the teacher/book mentioned the various contraceptives around, and how effcient they are. We where also tough that if we got it on, it doesn't matter our position, if we don't use protection or other contraceptives, odds are the girl will be pregnant. Out teacher also emphatised how unefficient the "pull out" method was. We didn't cover abortion because our country (Portugal) forbids it unless there's a case of rape, or risk of the health either of the mom or the baby. Homosexualitty was unexistant, it was only mentioned in the list of things that may infect us HIV/AIDS (obviously male/male intercourse was the only one mentioned >_>).
All in all, it wasn't perfect, yet it was better than absistence only. Then again, the rest of the information can be obtained quite easly, even in our school, we where given pamflets with information such as how to wear a condom, the pill, and others, once. Plus, at local festivities there's always a booth offering information on the matter... I'm serious...
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:37 pm
I had a good one. I can safely say I know what sex and pregnancy is about.
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:56 pm
sybex Shark Oxymoronic Username sybex Shark -All girls are looking for Twu Lurv~! Does this mean I'm an it? I should've known something was up..
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 2:18 pm
1. What type of sex education did you have, if any?
Abstinance based, but it did go into contraceptives. It was called Family Life.
2. What were the most memorable (positive or negative) moments?
*When the teacher kept telling us urban legands about AIDS as if they were facts. One girl tried to correct him and ended up getting yelled out.
*When we watched a video that explained how to use condoms and the boy next to me couldn't stop blushing.
*This girl who giggled every time the teacher said the word 'p***s'.
3. How did you feel when you were finished with the class?
No more informed than I was when I started it (my mom taught me about most of that stuff at home)
4. Do you think it was worth it? Would you wish it on anybody else?
For me it wasn't worth it, but I think it's better than nothing for kids who have no other Sex Ed.
5. What state (or country) did you take it in and when?
Virginia Beach, Virginia, 2004.
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 4:16 pm
Aw that sounds like a great class! I would have enjoyed that I think. The teacher seems very informative and everything. When I was in sixth grade is I believe when I had a sex-ed type of class. The teacher taught us all sorts of different things with your body and it was pretty informative. I remember being kind of embarrassed though but that was how I was back then anyways.
Other then that I just learned stuff through your basic health class.
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 4:18 pm
I had sex ed in eighth grade. We labeled diagrams, watched a cartoon video about puberty, had teen mothers speak to the class, and learned how condoms fail so we need to PRACTICE ABSTINANCE OR GO TO HELL. Well, without the hell part. more like DIE SLOWLY AND PAINFULY FROM MULTIPLE STD'S.
Memorable moments: When our teacher wore skirts and sat with her legs up on her desk, spread apart. O.o Eyuggh, I did not want to see that.
Class taken in: Grand Haven, Michigan. 2003
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 4:19 pm
Katsuya Ishtar I don't remember! I mean, in sixth grade, we talked about the v****a with the school nurse and periods and all that crap and she told us not to have sex or whatever, so I asked "what about condoms?" and I just recieved a weird look form everyone, like I was already having sex (and I'm still a virgin). We had it in eighth grade, but I don't remember it much. And we had learned about STDs in health. But I learned a lot of it from a book my grandma got me that covered EVERYTHING. Speaking of books there is a GREAT book you guys might like I heard about on a radio program I listen to. It's from a doctor who I believe specializes in sex education and his book is for teens and young adults. From his interview it seems really good. I hope you all check it out: http://www.powells.com/biblio/1893910385?&PID=27644It's called: The Naked Truth about Sex it's a guideline book for teens and twenty-somethings.
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 4:22 pm
Muddles I remember that back in fourth and fifth grade it was called 'Family Life' and it was just basically a week of watching videos on how boys and girls are different and where babies come from and that was pretty much it. Sixth and seventh grade I don't remember too much about, but I know in eighth grade we did discuss the reproductive organs of both sexes (with much giggling in the classroom). At the end of it we got a sheet that had a bunch of different contraceptives listed on them and it included abstinence, so while our teacher was going over the basics of them, she was always saying, "Abstinence is the best!". No mention of abortion at all. I haven't taken health yet in high school, but I'm planning to, and I know that our school endorses an abstinence-only program, and I even got the booklet they pass out from it from one of my friends. It even details the evils of abortion and how condoms don't work etc. What I get for living in the middle of Ohio though, and I wouldn't really wish this program on anyone/ Could there perhaps be a way where you and your friends you know who are pro-choice could pass out information from reliable sources to debunk the "pro-life" stance?
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Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:35 pm
UK - Ages 11-15: We learned about all the parts and how they work. We learned about how pregnancy works. We had a "girls only" section where we learned about periods and got free pads.
US - Ages 15-18: We spent one week in Health class learning about all the diseases you could get from sex. No mention of contraceptives. The rest of the year was spent learning about nutrition and stuff like that.
Thank God for the internet.
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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 3:15 am
In about year 7 we learned about puberty and menstration. The boys went off to one room with the male teacher and the girls were in another room with the female teachers to learn the different things about puberty. The best bit was when one of the teachers put a tampon into a cup of blue water and made it swell up, and it was a super tampon so it was HUGE!
Then in year 8, when we did Health, we touched on sex-ed, but didn't go into too much detail (mixed class, male teacher, I think they thought it might get weird).
Years 9 and 10 were when we had the most "fun". Split into small groups of the same sex with a teacher of the same sex we went into detail. Contraceptives, STDs, pregnancy, what to do if you do get pregnant. It was pretty good.
They went even further in year 11. They made sure we were well educated.
This was all at a private school here in South Australia. It was a pretty good school.
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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:35 am
Well it was all quite a long while ago for me...
1. What type of sex education did you have, if any? p
My mother was pretty good with sex ed. I don't remember my own, but I do remember that I knew what sex was, who did it, what resulted etc. at a young age. Went to a state school, probably pretty average for the time. Sex ed was staggered, you learnt different things at different ages.
2. What were the most memorable (positive or negative) moments?
Probably little me at age 7 ranting about how unfair it all was that boys didn't have to worry about periods and mood swings or pregnancy, and likely that pregnancy is just wrong. What kind of world is it that allows such horrible things to happen as if it was all okay? Pregnancy should be band under the Geneva Convention of Human Rights... I was an odd child.
3. How did you feel when you were finished with the class?
Pissed off at the entire world and at the medical proffessions for not finding a way around pregnancy.
4. Do you think it was worth it? Would you wish it on anybody else? (I do, and I would!)
No, no and no. It was all rather pants. What I actually learnt?
Have sex, make babies. Use a condom, don't make babies.
5. What state (or country) did you take it in and when?
UK... ooh, well I'm 23 now and sex ed began at 7 years old.
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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 12:05 pm
My sex ed class was nothing but shoving abstinence down our throats. It even suggested not to kiss anyone before marriage. I had fun, though, because I sat next to a bunch of friends and we just joked and s**t all period.
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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:37 pm
1. What type of sex education did you have, if any?
Well, I live in a red state, so it was abstinence only. I can't remember it too well but I'm pretty sure our teacher told us that abortion was the devil, murder, evil, etc., and that contraception doesn't work unless you're married. You shouldn't have sex until you're married, blah blah blah. You're going to get AIDS if you ever have sex outside of marraige. One thing I specifically remember was her telling us that having sex with someone who isn't a virgin is like chewing gum that's already been chewed by several different people. I'm not sure why I remember that but it sticks out in my memory.
2. What were the most memorable (positive or negative) moments?
Err, the gum thing and her telling us how bad abortion is and that if we ever get pregnant we shouldn't get an abortion we should put the kid up for adoption. She also gave us a card and told us that when we graduated we could bring it back to her and she would give us a package of Oreos. Unfortunately I lost mine.
3. How did you feel when you were finished with the class?
I wanted to graduate so I could get my damn Oreos.
4. Do you think it was worth it? Would you wish it on anybody else? (I do, and I would!)
I think I lost some IQ points coming out of that class so no I wouldn't recommend or wish it on anyone.
5. What state (or country) did you take it in and when?
Iowa DURRRR. dramallama
I think I was in 7th grade sooo that would be 2001.
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