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Sex Ed...How much to teach?

• Pretty early

  I think sex ed should be taught fully in schools. Starting in 6th grade at the latest. In that grade I would go over body parts, how everything works, how a baby is formed, and how a birth works, what all the STD's are and their symptoms, as part of a general health class. Later on 8th grade at the latest, I would teach more in depth about the sexual reproductive organs, pregnancy (include videos), STD's, sex (the way the act works from an anatomical perspective, no positions or the like)hetero as well as homo, contraceptives, including pill, condoms etc, the fact that abstinence is the only sure-fire way to protect, drugs and alcohol and their affect on the body and on ability to control sex acts, rape, date rape, oral sex as being sex with similar risks, and anything the kids may have questions on.
  
  That's what I think should be taught and when. That's how I had it, and it helped. The first class was right before puberty and so made the actual process of getting my period and such less confusing. By the time I had the second class, I knew a lot of what they taught, but it was a nice reinforcement, and a lot of the kids didn't.
  
  I am now a sexually active teen in college, and the only reason I feel safe and comfortable is I know all the options and risks.
  
  My parents never really talked to me about a lot of these things, but I was encouraged to read a lot, and had the internet as a kid. The reason we need these classes is even if parents don't talk kids will have an idea, and it's better it's the right one.
  
  I would actually teach it much younger than I specified. The first one around 3rd or 4th and the second by 6th or 7th, but as I said the years I put are at the latest. That's how I see it? What do you think?

  70%  Voted for by IvoryRose, Oral Fixation, pnktrky, Weydon, Nathan Explosion. (12 total)

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    Kazrith
    January 3, 2007
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    this sounds like the canadian programme. we have the same idea but we also have refresher courses in grades 10 and 11
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    Oral Fixation
    January 3, 2007
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    well said.

    The internet was and still is the basis of all my sexual wisdom, my parents never really lending a hand in this case. I must say, in school, they don't cover anything as well as the should have, and starting at a young age will encourage healthy relationships and healthier kids in general (those who use protection have a much, MUCH lower risk of contracting an STD or HIV.
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    pnktrky
    January 3, 2007
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    some things kids must know before the have to worry about it.
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    Nathan Explosion
    January 4, 2007
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    it should be taught young

    aslthough so many people believe that western society is overly sexual i beleive that it is half and half. one half overly sexual the other stuck up.
    
    simply although their is so much sex and people are realizing that children even very young children have these erges and exspirment with them and any educated person recognizes this is nothing new and children have always been sexual. peopel still refuse to address the matter and pretend that if we pretend that childen arn't just as much sexual beings as adults can be.
    
    Children are,have, and will always be sexual and people must relise that the only protection is knowledge and the danger to children is their ignorance.
    
    i think it is ackward for parents to think that their children are learning about sex from a stranger. i can understand that. but that leaves only on other option PARENTS NEED TO GROW UP THEMSELVES, BE PARENTS AND TEACH THEIR KIDS THEMSELVE. parents need also to realize that most of them didn't have sex-ed themselves and don't really no that much themselves so if they want to be responsible they have to educate themselfs as well.
  • Red Death
    March 19, 2007
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    I think that if you grow up with a knowledge appropriate to your age you become well informed and are able to make good decisions. Of course, just like you wouldn't want to teach a five year old Algebra, only teach them what they can handle.
    
    What my parents did in my case is they told me a lot of things, knowing that I wouldn't understand everything or remember that much. But at least I had heard it and remembered and understood everything I was able to at the time.
    
    Also look at it this way: As a parent would you rather your child learn about sex from a class in school, or from their friends?
    
    
  • Blaze1616
    April 10, 2007
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    You have a very good opinion, and I must agree with you. Sex is natural in life. In nature, creatures are bron to live and reproduce. that's just a fact of life, whether you believe it or not. The sad fact is that parents are either embarassed or afraid to talk to their kids about sex themselves, so sexual education classes are a great idea.
    
    The thing is, the way schools are doing it, a student only needs a semester (half a year) of a health, or sex ed class in their whole high school career. Half a school year, and that's still not fully dedicated to Sexual Education. That means what, three, four weeks of Sexual Education in their school careers? That's just not enough when their parents are too shy to talk about it!
    
    The only thing I do not agree with you on is what you said at the end, about starting the classes in third or fourth grade. In my opinion, students are still too immature at those ages. Not too immature to learn about sex and safety, but too young to go into the sexual organs, and the acts of it all. If students were to start their Sexual Education at such a young age, keep it simple. Use easily understood words, but don't make things too complicated, with everything such as the uterus and fylopian tubes, and whatnot.
    
    I personally believe it would be best to just gradually introduce sex to children, so that by eight grade, as you said, they are fully aware of just about everything.
    
    What's worse is that the parents who do teach their kids about sex, usually give the impression that sexual intercoarse is a bad thing. That's the worst thing you can tell a kid! Sex is not bad, it's just not appropriate until you're older. Telling a five year old kid sex is bad, is like telling them that all bunnies eat little kids! Its a lie! This is another reason Sex Ed is needed, the parents who do take the liberties of teaching their kids, usually teach it wrongly.
    
    You have some great ideas, and I back you up. I may only be a freshman in high school, but I'm with you on this one.
  • Misty Goddess
    June 13, 2007
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    early

    teaching kids early about sex is good
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    sca
    November 11, 2007
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    There are some places in Australia where the truly addicted can go with a guarrantee of not being booked. Clean needles, etcetera - even though it's illegal.
    
    Kind of an anonymous yet official no mans land.

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