A sex-ed speaker shouldn't be shoving "no sex before marriage" down people's throats, amirite?

Sex ed classes should cover a variety of topic, and abstinence should be one of them. However, while abstinence is a choice that people should respect, a sex education lesson should discuss sex - including methods of birth control, issues of consent, etc.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The person I'm talking about basically said there's no place for sex outside of marriage and wouldn't even discuss methods of birth control and only mentioned STD's.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yes, that type of speaker I would be against. It's highly unrealistic, and anyone who is teaching sex education, particularly to teens, is a fool if they don't discuss keeping safe while being sexually active. As I said before, abstinence should certainly be mentioned, but it should be presented with a variety of other choices.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah that's what my school taught (it was Christian).

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Preaching abstinence only leads to pregnancy.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

...which leads to death.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Don't have sex, because you will get pregnant and die! Mean Girls :)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I love the family guy one "Sex turns straights gay and gays into mexicans. Everyone goes down a level!"

by Anonymous 12 years ago

now take some rubbers.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Plz explain your logic?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Numerous studies have shown that abstinence only education increases teen pregnancy because students are not given adequate or truthful information regarding forms of birth control.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

When a student body is left without knowing about birth control they have to rely on sex myths. They end up believing a girl can't get pregnant her first time or that the pull out method really works. Even if a school teaches abstinence kids will still have sex.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Or they'll just end up believing that condoms and birth control don't work so they won't bother using them.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't know. I think they should give all the facts about sex, but stress the importance of having enough self respect to only commit your body to someone who's willing to commit to you, married or not.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Having self respect and having sex are not related in any way. You can have lots of both.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't think people who sleep with guys they just met have a lot of self-respect.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I've never noticed a correlation.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yes. Just yes. I couldn't have put in any better.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

My school taught diseases and birth control and stuff like that, then there was a little topic on abstinence. I go to a catholic school, so don't think that we're all Jesus freaks, because the system isn't as stereotypical as many think.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

all of my schools have been public schools and in elementary school they taught us about sex (sorta, just how a baby is made) and how to shave and stuff, then i moved in middle school and sex ed there wasnt about sex at all. the word condom wasnt used once. just abstinese. it was weird the teacher was 28 years old and not married and she says she was a virgin. even then i was like ....thats old.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Public school? Wow, I've always been in the Catholic school system even since grade school (in Canada that's normal, it isn't private school), and I always thought that the public system would be more...explicit.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I always dislike those type of sex-ed teachers... Especially if they say specifically "no sex before /marriage/." What if the kid is not heterosexual? There's no marriage... That's something that always irritated me.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I know, I have a teacher who's all about that and I keep thinking to myself "...But, What if you're gay?" Teachers like that get on my nerves.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah.. When I first had sex-ed, I was/didn't realize my orientation so I was just like "okay!" And then when I had it again, because my school repeated it, it was just like "...what do I do then!? D: " Except I didn't say that. <_<;

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah, my class was really awkward... Everyone at my school is undoubtedly straight and Catholic and I've always been questioning and not really religious...I don't fit in...like, at ALL.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I feel like that isnt that bad, if they aren't pushing morals as much as the advised circumstances for raising a child in the instance of pregnancy. Morals are a part of education in most areas, but just stressing "marriage" isn't the point of sex-ed.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

See the above comment to Simon about what kind of sex-ed speaker I was talking about in the post.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No I understand what was implied, but I was just pointing out that it could be construed another way, which wouldn't be as terrible as forcing morals. Of course even if stability of a family is stressed, the teacher still has to teach more than abstinence.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I hate when people tell me to wait for marriage to have sex because I don't ever want to get married.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

what do they usually say when you tell them that?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

A lot of people try to sell me on the idea of marriage and tell me why I should get married, but no one has ever told me something that would make me want to get married.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I agree with you. I never say the point of it either.

by Anonymous 12 years ago