Sex Ed for Teenagers...

[wholuvsya.livejournal.com]

Hi lovely ladies! Today I found myself in the position of teaching my high schoolers about sex and all that good stuff. The girls and I discussed the "care and keeping" of their vagina, protected sex, std/sti's, all of those wonderful things. I also told them, and I hope I am correct in telling them this, that self breast exams *should* be done starting when they first menstrate (as in, doing them each month thereafter) Is this information still correct? I'm 26 and I remember this being the rule of thumb when I started menstrating. Thanks. Also, I thought this was worth mentioning. I always thought that this generation of children was much more body aware and educated about sex. I was apparently very wrong. Today one of my 15 year old boys said to me, "why do I need to use condoms? If she's on birth control, nothing can happen!" I asked him if he had thought about STD/STI's, and he said "no, the pill kills them" /headdesk/ needless to say, all of them got a little talk on what the pill can and cannot do and what condoms and can not do...

Comments

[racrichton.livejournal.com]

you rule.

'nuff said.

and seriously that "the pill kills them" comment? LOL-tastic, but sad at the same time. I hope you warned them that even with the pill and condoms you can still get STD/I's... I was never told that, and flat out shocked later in life when i found out about HPV, and my first thought was "but, CONDOMS! That's their JOB, it's what they DO!!!"

[whoa---uraslut.livejournal.com]

That's why HPV should be talked about more. I didn't even know what it was, until I had it. I only graduated 2 years ago to, you think when I was in high school someone would teach us about, nope.