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ohclizlE · Elzilcho

They took a slightly different angle at my school...

First they had videos of 'typical' teenagers meeting up, having sex, etc.

Then the next lesson, things were turned slightly on their head when we were tasked with making a Powerpoint presentation of, you guessed it, STDs, pictures compulsory.

I guess shock tactics work too.

Geno · The Axolotl Sympathist

Frozenwinters · ~A color is just a color~

My sex ed. only spent one day on abstinence. I found the information about protection, where to go, stds, and all that other shit a lot more educational. :U

Dragus · Dark Lord Eternal

Sam · Larry Koopa

I agree, however, nowadays 5 year olds know about all that. So it's not really a necessity.

Aggrieved · Simsmagic

In my health class, we had a guy come in for about five days to talk to us about sex.
It was all pretty much "LOL CONDOMS DO NOT WORK THE ONLY WAY TO BE HEALTHY IS TO ABSTAIN NOW HERE'S SOME PICTURES OF DISEASED PINGAS' AND VAGAGI'S TO PROVE MY POINT."
Or something to that effect, I didn't exactly like him too much.

Anyways, while Abstinence is the safest option, teenagers hardly practice it anymore. While you can go ahead and teach it, don't make it your main point, as no one will really listen.

The Chaos Heart · Master of Puppets...

Count Blumiere · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 1:36 am

I haven't been taught sex ed for 3 years. I am a catholic (only found that out months ago) and want to know more about religous rules against sex and stuff

Screamy · Something to deliver

You guys do know that there was a study done. One group of kids was taught abstinence only, the other was taught condom use. Guess which group was more likely to use condoms while having sex? The group that was taught abstinence only. It makes sense when you think about it. People are going to know what a condom is whether they are taught in school or not. From their parents, from other kids, from the internet, T.V. commercials, whatever. Once a kid is old enough to have a chance to have sex, they know what a condom is, regardless of what he was taught. Now if the kid was taught abstinence he is more likely to use condom, because he is more aware of what he is doing because he was taught NOT to do it his whole life. This may not be the nicest way to go about doing it, but its the safest. Yes they may lie to you when saying its wrong to have sex, but its not any worse than your parents lying to you about Santa Claus or the Easter bunny in the long run, it helps you out.

BAMFing ARCHER · Bartz Klauser

Screamy · Something to deliver

Studies are almost always done with a wide variety of people, with different backgrounds, and in this case probably morals, or morals of their parents. It's a possibility what you said could be the case, but you can't really say for sure, it's probably more unlikely though.

BAMFing ARCHER · Bartz Klauser

No, as a matter of fact, the odds that it's likely is 50%, as is the odds that it's unlikely.

Human error can still occur, and unless you can present accurate information on this study, we will not know what the general error was. Studies are usually done randomly, as well. They could have rigged the odds in their favor by placing the more responsible students in the abstinence-only classes, and the more irresponsible ones in the other class to prove their points. The possibilities for this study to be quite flawed are actually near-endless, highly because of the randomized subjects used for it.

Screamy · Something to deliver

I wish I could provide more information to you, but unfortunately the study was mentioned to me by my photography teacher. He's a die-hard liberal so I assume he wouldn't make something like this up. I'm not sure but the study was most likely done by a university, with the purpose of finding information, not with the purpose to falsely influence the country to change their opinions to more Christian values.

Para · Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 1:28 pm

I dunno if my opinion has been posted in this thread, and I don't wanna skim to find out. I'm sure there's enough smart people on these forums to the point where I'll just be reiterating here.
But anyway.

I think it's more sensible to teach safe sex rather than abstinence.
Let's face it: Teens are going to do what they want, despite what you tell them. There isn't anything school boards can do to keep them from having sex, so they might as well make sure that they are least being responsible.

Super Silverchain · AKA Señor AWESOME

My sex education has reached an all time low. Today, they said to be careful FRENCH KSSING SOMEONE, AS THEY MAY HAVE GIVEN A BLOWJOB TO SOMEONE WITH AN STD! Come ON, people!