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How's that sex ed working out for everyone?

posted 4 years ago by [deleted]
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When I was a kid, sex ed in school was still a controversial issue, and people like my parents were ridiculed as being "old fashioned" for opting me out of class.

But the morons who made fun of so-called "prudish, old-fashioned parents" didn't get it. The problem with "sex ed" is that anyone can teach it, including unstable people with emotional and mental hangups or confusion about their own sexuality. This problem is why, decades down the line in spite of all this "sex ed", there are gender-non conforming gay or bi kids (aka tomboys, sissies, butch, etc.) being gaslit into thinking they're transgender, and there are straight kids--who can only have sex with people they bond with--being told that they're "demisexuals on the asexuality spectrum" and therefore quite possibly on the autism spectrum.

[–] L1 (1316) 4 years ago

Gwyneth Paltrow is making a candle that smells like her lady parts.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

She is a quarter-wit.

[–] L1 (1316) 4 years ago

What do you think of people in Hollywood talking about female oprresion and on the other hand making candles that smell like their lady parts/

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

I've never taken Hollywood actors seriously in anything they've ever said or done, especially not Paltrow.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

My favorite part of sex ed was the depraved orgies that inevitably broke out whenever our health teacher explained how babies are made or how contraception worked.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

When I was younger, teen pregnancy and HIV/AIDs cases soared. Now some 30 years later, STD rates are at peak levels right now among teens, to the extent that the medical industry in some countries are actually pushing all young people to get HPV vaccines to prevent possible HPV-related cancers. But let's, in the spirit of sarcasm, make up a scenario that never happened to ignore the ones that are actually happening.

BTW, here's a Time Magazine on this entire issue:

Here's Why Teen STDs Are Hitting All-Time Highs
Another factor contributing to the rise in teen STDs is the fact that many classes focus almost exclusively on heterosexual sex. “Sex education has to be relevant to the kids you are seeing,” says Steever. “To drone on about condoms for pregnancy prevention can fall on deaf ears for LGBTQ communities. We need sex education that is appropriate for the audience it is trying to reach.” https://time.com/4558627/heres-why-teen-stds-are-hitting-all-time-highs/

To paraphrase, sex education--which is touted as this fail-safe maneuver to prevent teens from getting into trouble--is actually contributing to rising STDs because the idiots who are teaching it didn't have the presence of mind to consider sex among gay students.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

We were taught that many sex acts, not just intercourse, could spread STDs. I don't think we got too heavily into homosexuality or transgenderism or any of that. But what we were taught would apply to them, too. This was in a somewhat conservative city about thirty years ago, though.

I'd be kind of surprised if they didn't get more heavily into those subjects in a modern sex ed class, though.