Sex education- are you for or against it and why?
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Huge debate there... not sure where to start.\n\nPros:\n-Educates the masses about STDs.\n-Educates the masses on reproduction and general knowledge of health issues and care for ones reproductive system.\n-Takes the stress off of the parents who may feel too embarrased to discuss with thier children.\n-Offers relief to those who wonder if the changes they are experiencing are "normal".\n-Helps remove the shame western cultures have towards sexuality.\n-Demystifies controversial topics like homosexuality.\n-Give a third party the opportunity to observe behaviors in the student that may suggest sexual abuse.\n-Educates student on safety issues.\n\ncons:\n-Does not (and should not) explain moral issues.  This is the sole responsibility of the parent, not the government.\n-Does not give the parent the decision of what time is best for thier child to be exposed to sexual topics.\n-Does not (and should not) cover religious issues. Also the sole responsibility of the parent.\n-Invites curiosity in the students which might lead to experimentation.\n-Introduces students to topics that parents may not approve of, like homosexuality.\n-Depending on the maturity and psychological state of the student, could create fear or anxiety.\n\nMy personal opinion, I am pro-education on all topics.  My only request is that the schools let me know the curriculum and agenda so that I can cover the topics with my child first.  She should understand our families moral and religious views before she is introduced the topic by a stranger or government employee.
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I think it's very important, and a good idea.  Not just "how to do it" but it's important for young people to learn the biology of the human body.  A lot of kids don't learn about this stuff at home.  They need to know what to expect when their bodies change so it's not a shock.  Puberty can be awkward, embarrassing and emotional- why not give them a heads up?\n\nI also think it's important to teach safe sex.  I'm not condoning teenage sex, but it happens.  What makes people think that once teens become adults they will automatically know how to use a condom, or how important it is if they never heard about it?  Of course parents want their kids to wait to have sex, but the surge of hormones that a teen goes through is powerful.  They need to learn how to control themselves, and what the consequences are if they have unsafe sex.  Keeping it all a big secret is dangerous. \n\nMy 16 yr old half-brother is home schooled and has never been told the facts of life.  I think it's sad.  \n\nKnowledge is power.
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sexual education, aids and STD's, sexuality, eating habits and hygiene issues
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abstinence and education
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ok...what was the question?\n\nI disagree with children having sex...it's too large of a responsibility at that age. Well, whatever...good for you and all that crap...
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Bad, people should be able to decide for themselves whether or not what they see, read and hear is art or smut.  We shouldn't target the object but instead the audience. Educate people more but don't deprive them of the choice of what they want to learn.
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Yes!  Sex is a natural occurance for humans and I think the better educated the person then they can hopefully make better educated decisions.  \n\nI do believe though that parents should be aware that the class is going to be taught that way they can add their own information if wanted or keep their kids from the class for religious or personal reasons.
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I know many kids who get pregnant and they have unprotected sex because their parents are too scared to talk about that touchy subject with their child.\n\nMost schools teach about the science of sexual intercourse. How its done, how STDs and HIV are transmitted, and they teach about the cycles of pregnancy.\n\nIt is the parents' "job" to teach their young ones about teenage pregnancy and about the emotional effects of sex. If your kids do not know about what sex is, then how will they know if what they are doing is right or wrong? Schools will not teach our kids about the emotions that come with sex. \n\n"What happens if my partner leaves me after sex and after I get pregnant?"\n\n"What happens if I get pregnant, what are my options? What if my parents will kill me?"\n\n"Does sex hurt? What are the reprecussions of having unprotected sex?"\n\n"If my partner wants to have sex, does that mean I should just do it?"\n\nThese are questions that only a parent can answer. Schools do not have the authority or the "legal rights" to answer them since they can only teach students the science of it.
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I don't think you'll find any "pro abstinence" sex ed videos other than from religious sources, so one would expect them to have religious slants.  The powers that be simply refuse to allow abstinence only videos to grace the educational field...
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I'm not aware that children at age 6 are receiving any official/formal training in sex education.\n\nMy concern at this point is that the child is learning this from another student or worse yet, an adult who is not authorized to do this sort of teaching.\n\nI might want to sit down with the parents of this child in a comfortable non aggressive/threatening environment and find out what the child meant when he said this and where he gained this information.\n\nThis can range from the simple act of bringing the matter to teachers and administration at the school to the leveling of charges against an adult who had less than pleasant intentions with the child.\n\nGood luck with this.\n\nLove as always,\n\nSebastian
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Depends what kind of hogwash the schools are corrupting your kids brain with.  Apparently everything seems to be abstenince, abstenince, abstenince these days. Does that actually work?  A TX based study says not at all, and other studies say that atleast half of all teens have engaged in oral.  Anyone know what the actual intercourse percentage is? I cant find it. Besides, whats a teens first response to something thats 'forbidden'?\n Want to teach your kids about sex, actually TEACH them about it.  About the dangers of unprotected sex, how the consequences of such can potentialy screw lives. Teach them sex isnt just sex or 'f*ing around'. Its sacred, its to be cherished.  The more they actually know, the more likely, I think, theyll wait.
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The Sexual Revolution of the 1960s is coming to an abrupt halt and virginity is making a comeback on high school campuses. That's the report from the Princeton Religion Research Center, which recently announced that an increasing proportion of Americans consider premarital sex wrong. The statistics they discovered demonstrate the reversal of an 18-year trend: two years ago, 39 percent said premarital sex was wrong; today 46 percent say it is wrong. \n\n"A key factor in this trend reversal may be growing concern over the risk of disease," such as herpes and AIDS, the Center said in its report, although most respondents (83 percent) cited moral and religious reasons for their opinions. Among those from age 18 to 29, the proportion considering premarital sex wrong had climbed from 18 percent to 27 percent.\n\nThe war cry against the establishment in the 1960s was for sexual freedom, but the definition of this rallying cry has now been rewritten after two decades of suffering the disastrous consequences of increasing venereal diseases and the recent AIDS epidemic. Health professionals and educators are proclaiming a new solution: responsible "safe sex" with its virtues of contraceptive usage and sex education.\n\nSafe sex adherents are diligent about carrying their contraceptives and checking their partners' sexual history. Contraceptive manufacturers have painted routine usage as a virtue, like taking your vitamins. In all their advertising, however, they fail to share the startling statistics of increasing teen pregnancies that have resulted from the use of their products.\n\nAlthough using contraceptives and policing your partner's sexual activity is a laudable attempt at stopping the spread of a disease, one very important element missing from the safe sex solution is values. The real issue is not the clinical advantages of having a clean partner, or whether or not you are using contraceptives. At the bottom of the safe sex promotion is the idea that self-gratification is still OK, as long as it is performed within the confines of medical safety. And that idea, more and more social commentators are saying, is dangerous.\n\nSociologist George Gilder, in his book Men and Marraige, said that men who respond to short term sexual desires are apt to have significantly higher rates of suicide, drug and alcohol addiction, mental disease, accidental death, and arrest. There is a vital difference between"responding to a short term sexual desire" even with the endorsement of health professionals, and being willing to wait until marriage to gratify that desire in its proper context.\n\nThe danger of "safe sex theology" is that it is a fearful knee-jerk reaction to the terror of AIDS and other diseases, but not a warning about the dangers of sexual permissiveness. Safe sex, in essence, is the same permissive sex of the '60s with the 1980s' Good Housekeeping seal of medical approval.\n\nA Revolt Against Permissiveness\n\nThousands of high-school students in Northern California have discovered a solution which goes a step ahead of safe sex and effectively solves the problem: virginity. "Clean Teens," based in Modesto, California, and directed by 18-year-old Kirk McCall, is the nation's only teen-led group that seeks to advocate sexual abstinence before marriage. \n\nClean Teens organized a rally which drew 1,000 people last October. "There is a real desire for abstinence among youth," said McCall. "When they hear positive reasons for abstinence, they say, 'Now I know why to say no.'\n\n"Chastity is important because of the physical repercussions of promiscuity: AIDs, other sexually transmitted diseases, and the rising rate of teen pregnancies. Those who go along with sex before marriage for emotional reasons find emotional problems later in life - guilt, frustration, jealousy," McCall explained.\n\nVirginity, once considered a stigma fo
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I agree with all, but caution that #7 should be noted to only included adults and that children are not involved. It is good to explain sex to children but not to openly show it to them. \n\nBlessed Be )O(
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hello farida, and everybody!\n\n\nsex education is important in school, and i think it is so very very important, because, it is important in the life to know the bases of life sexualities.\n\nand for to découver what are the differences it is in girls, and in boys;\n\nit is important to know this for best to protect in the dangers what giving the maladies transmissible, for example. virus of S.I.D.A  he can give the dead.\n\nit is very important to protect the life because she  is very precious, : to protect it is to protect hoters individus.\nnot Anytinks can be substituted in the precious life.\n\ngo in school, and accept to learn this matière about sex education.\n\nyou will be to have very goods surprises!\n\ni kiss you tendrely!!!!!
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lol I can't believe you would ask such a stupid question.\nChurch is against sex if it is outside of marriage, otherwise it is fine.\nYour not helping, because trying to get someone to try sex outside of marriage is stupid. \nThat person could get sexual diseases. That can't be fun.\n\nP.S. I tell you this tracdaddy5 that email was not nasty that email was just simply me standing firm on what I believe. \nSure I was getting mad and upset but it was not a nasty email.
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A combination of Abstinence and Safe sex. We can't  simply rely on schools to teach our kids  about sex...my parents avoided the issue and just assumed I would learn from school...I actually found out what really went on from accidently turning on a porn that was left in my VCR...so I think i woulda rather had my parents talk to me about it.
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Absolutely!  \n\nMy kids are still in elementary school, but I know that high school is just around the corner.  I think it is appalling that kids can learn those types of things here, or anywhere.  \n\nI am disgusted at the questions kids are asking on here about sex and the like.  I pray that I can steer my kids clear of this kind of filth.  They're great, innocent kids so far.  \n\nKids are even having others do their homework on this site!  Unbelievable!