Sex Ed Article

[paperdoll26.livejournal.com]

I don't know if anybody's seen this, but it was about a really interesting study being done where they keep track of student's sex lives, one group being taught by slightly older teenagers, and one being taught the regular way by adults.


http://cnn.aimtoday.cnn.com/news/package.jsp?name=fte/sexedtactic/sexedtactic

Comments

[barrette.livejournal.com]

That's pretty interesting. I recently had sex ed (I did health over the summer because it's a required class and I wanted to get it out of the way) and it was overall pretty good. We had a couple different speakers come in. One came in and talked about birth control and how it would probably be be best to wait until marriage to have sex, and another person came in to talk about birth control. Something I didn't like about it is that my teachers, and one of the speakers, told us that guys want sex more than girls do and that no girls in high school desire sex.

[thevargasgirl.livejournal.com]

what school do you go to, and can you find out who the speakers are? i would like to write these people a letter to let them know how ABSURD they are.

i fucking hate when people devalue a womans sexual desires. i can ASSURE you i want sex more than most guys do.

[barrette.livejournal.com]

I go to Thomas Worthington High School. I'm not sure how you can find out who the speakers were, to be honest. :\

[sadiemartha.livejournal.com]

Man, I wish the results had been more encouraging! It seems like a great idea to me, since (in my experience) kids just tend to sleep through sex ed and then try to figure things out on their own or from friends. I guess there will always be kids who won't listen to anyone standing at the front of the class. Well, I hope at least the marginal success is enough for them to keep trying, and I'm glad someone's trying a new approach.

My theory is that kids are never going to take responsibility for their own reproductive health until they're legitimately interested in it. That's the major downfall of abstinence-only education - they're basically told, "hey, those genitals of yours? You won't need 'em for another ten years. Just forget about them, why don't you?" Aside from (obviously) not being educated about contraception and responsible sex, there's just this attitude of ignorance, as if not knowing the first thing about how fertility works makes you exempt from its consequences. There's my rant :)