"students don't know much more about sex than their parents did"

[cynatnite]

"If we taught driver's ed the way we teach sex education," says the professor, his voice assuming a deep, mocking tone, "we'd be saying things like, 'Stay away from the car. Don't stand next to the car.' Yeah, right."

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A young man asks Sawyer about timing intercourse around a woman's menstrual cycle, the so-called rhythm method of birth control. Sawyer resists the urge to ask what decade the young man is living in.

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But students don't know much more about sex than their parents did, he says. They're somewhat better at preventing pregnancy but continue to acquire life-threatening infections at an alarming rate. He blames this on lousy sex education in the lower grades.

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Sexuality is a complex psycho-social behavior, he says in an interview, and it takes more than six weeks of lectures by a football coach to understand. Current efforts by political conservatives restricting sex education in the public schools to abstinence-only programs is making a bad situation worse. "There is no scientific evidence showing that dogma works," he says.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/09/AR2006100901272.html

This is a great article to read.

[mongo]

1. K & R

For the appaling lack of real sex ed in America today.

[VelmaD]

2. FINALLY

One thing that you and I agree on.

[Marnieworld]

3. awww isn'that nice?

:grouphug:

[mcscajun]

4. Thirty years after the "sexual revolution" and we still need to

storm the barricades.

Kids are having sex earlier and earlier, and the level of ignorance remains a constant. :banghead:

[tkmorris]

5. They can be idiots

We have a daughter that is dead certain we CANNOT know anything about sex because we are over 30. She makes me want to brain myself with a frying pan.

[mcscajun]

7. I was going to say "You're kidding, right?" but I know you're not.

That's so sad.

Leave the frying pan alone. :)

You'll want to leave it to your daughter...she'll want to brain herself with it some years down the road.

[SoCalDem]

6. Sex as a method of procreation, usually "works"

BUT as a "social issue" , we have failed miserably..

Part of it is because our lives are totally out of control..

Before cars were available to young people, their "personal lives' were very carefully controlled by their parents.. Small businesses & farms pretty much ensured that "kids" would be at work right alongside their parents, and since the whole family was together 24-7, there was little time or opportunity for "experimentation"


In little over a generation we have gone from a society that was with their young 'uns all the time, to a society where young people are rarely with their parents or adult family members..

And not all that long ago, girls were married off at 16 or 17, to young men at or near their own ages..

The extended adolescence of young people today and the limited parental involvement makes it a very dangerous time for most kids ..

sex ed is fine, but with all the right wing wackos who have infiltrated school boards, can we trust them to properly educate??

I think, not..