Sex Education

I was homeschooled, so no. Everything about sex I learned from the internet.

 

In High School they talked about STDs and AIDS especially. We had a health class. We watched a video and had discussions.

 

Having criticised UK sex education, I have to say that UK sex education doesn't obsess over abstinence. I try to avoid anti-Americanism which my parents' prejudices may incline me towards but I have always found the predominantly American trend of focusing on abstinence as a sexual educational policy very odd (and I'm a 28 year old virgin ( ! ) ) and I wondered what American posters feel about this policy?

 

That's better than what I got. I went to a Catholic school, so our "sex education" was just them telling us not to do it.

Oh, I forgot to mention the part when they told us that having sex with someone will ruin you for all future partners and no one will ever want you.

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It's the dumbest thing in the world.

 

We watched a short video of a baby being born. I swore off sex fir life :lol: (then still got pregnant at 17!)

 

- condoms
- Get tested
- What is a "douche"? What is it actually?
- Maybe sex positions..? I don't remember if those cards were for that.
- Playing the Vagina game (it's a dance. Stop. No. That's not what we did.)
- How a sperm gets to an egg, and the process from ejaculation to that.
- STDs
- Lust vs Love (and why not to act solely on lust)

I'll say that my High School sex education was one of the better pieces of education, even if I did despise traveling the entire school to get there. One part does stick in my mind: They used cards that had both homosexual and heterosexual couples in them, on a bed. I don't remember if the many jocks in the class were put off by it, but it still reminded me that this WAS one of the better schools when it came to stuff like this. It was very open, and simply said "Try your absolute best not to get STDs" It didn't sugarcoat anything, and it didn't say "NEVER HAVE SEX" because it recognized that.. sex is kinda necessary, if we want our species to continue.

 

Heavily gendered language and heterosexist content. Absolutely brilliant. So inclusive.
The gist of it was information on reproductive organs, formation of a fetus, childbirth, STDs, condoms/contraception, and sexual health tests. Fortunately, there were no mentions of "slut shaming" or directly being told not to do it, but just to be cautious. I wish sex ed. elaborated more on relationships and teaching kids that it's a right to decline and say "no" when needed.

Unfortunately, there's not much information on sexual health for trans people either, even on the internet. I've had to refer to lesbian sexual health articles just to check up on possible transmitted diseases, which was a huge smack in the face of my biological sex. Though, if not the internet.. I definitely wouldn't have learned anything at all on the matter from school.

 

My cousin in Florida said they showed the class a video of a late-term abortion to scare the girls out of ever having an abortion.

 

The only things I remember from sex ed is learning about the body and learning about STIs and types of protections.

 

I recall the school nurse visiting 2 or 3 times throughout high school to talk about sex ed. There was a brief mention of homosexuality, but not in a bad way.

I think I recall the nurse saying either that 1 in 10 men were gay, or that at least 1 in 10 men would have a same-sex experience of some sort in their life. That was about it.

 

We was taught how to use a condom.. thank goodness I wasn't present.. one class had to watch a porn video.. LOL.. I think a guy said he masturbated too haha

 

I had about 3 or 4 years of it from age 12 to 14-15.

It started off as puberty stuff - things like periods and erections and hair growth and voice changes and all those mundane facts. There might've been some cursory mention of sex but it was limited to 'egg + sperm = baby'.

The next year there was more focus on sex. Most of it was a rehash of the puberty stuff but there were some sessions about sex and relationships, but I don't think it went any further than "use a condom."

The final year it was a lot more intensive. There was some borderline scare-tactics with pictures of STD symptoms and so on, although they never advocated abstinence and it was more to encourage safe sex. There were a few sessions about good relationships and consent in sex, and also things like the influence of alcohol and drugs in these situations. They also handed around a dildo that we could put a condom on if we wanted to try it (it was more of a featureless hard plastic rod on a base than a proper dildo though ).

It was all entirely focused on heterosexual relationships unfortunately, although I think there may have been one mention of how MSM still need to use a condom in the final year.

 

Haha, we had real dildos... But I was lucky to be sent to deliver a letter to the office.. and when I was back I didn't need to take part. Everyone looked so awkward and the girls were giggling.. I'd probably would have went red.

 

Teach you how a woman gets pregnant, abstinence, S.T.D.'s, Rape, Sexting.

 

Since year 4 (I think that's ages 8-9 but I can't remember) we have been taught about puberty and how the body changes etc.
In year 8 we were taught about contraception and relationships.
I've never felt it was completely necessary but it was better than maths I suppose. My year 8 teacher was very good at covering information for both gay and straight people even if I felt the whole class staring at me and my, at the time, girlfriend.

 

I had it back in middle school.....but...I kinda fell asleep so not sure what happened.

 

We did where I live and it was a joke.

 

The last time I remember having sex ed in school was in 7th or 8th grade, and it was mostly about teen pregnancy and STDs/STIs. My mom gave me a(n) (age appropriate) book on sex when I was about 12-13, but she knew it didn't totally apply to me. The book did mention LGBTs and didn't demonize in any way so that was nice.

Was supposed to have it in freshman year in my health class, but our teacher got moved to a different position and we didn't really have a class that marking period.

So basically anything related to sex I've either learned from books, biology class, or the internet.

 

i always thought i had quiet good sex education at three different schools in the uk it was just too late , aged 10 we watched videos on puperty which considering some girls start puberty at lke 9 is just silly, than senior school at 14/15 we learned about all the forms of protection and what was sex was which i hope 14 years already knew but the stuff about learning about implants and female comdoms and other forms of protection i have forgotten about was quiet interesting cause at that age i only knew about comdoms. Than at 17 (another school) we did spotting certain types of sti and getting rid of them , putting on a condom while drunk and spotting breast cancer.

 

I had sex ed in both primary school and high school. I have the to say, the sex ed in primary was much more in depth and knowledgeable.