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Sex Education teachings?

ok so I've had sex education from 4th grade to freshman year in highschool... Now their big thing is to try and scare people from having sex. I understand that. But the teachings at my school at least, I feel were too.... Focused on the bad.... I used to think my body was weird and wrong [not to mention celebrities don't help] and am now just comming to terms and realizing my body isn't abnormal... Even though my mom was fairly open I felt too ashamed to ask her anything. So here is my question, was this just at my school or is it in the general public.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    Sex education in all schools is terrible.

    Thus why we have myths like; the first time hurts, you can get pregnant any time of your cycle, safe sex means using condoms, etc. and they do scare kids out of sex this way - if they educated people properly they wouldn't need to scare people out of sex! Even modern sex education seems to get it way off sometimes, and they don't put enough focus onto things like body-image, self-esteem and pleasure during sex. We still have problems with STD's, unwanted pregnancy and girls being willing to please men even if it means pain or denying themselves pleasure.

    No one taught me that only 30% of women orgasm from sex, I thought I was a freak, so did my partner, and as a result of this the relationship developed into an abusive relationship - I didn't want sex, he told me I was a freak for not wanting sex or reaching orgasm, using this emotional abuse to force me to have sex with him until I bled. If I had good sex education that wouldn't have happened to me, that's what brought me to work in sexual health.

    It is a general problem, unfortunatetly whenever anyone tries to improve sex education some prudes try to stop it - thus why I try to teach people to educate themselves, and continue doing so, rather than relying on the poor sex education they got in school.

  • 1 decade ago

    General schools focus on the bad of 'sex' (evil!) but reasure that bodies are normal and good. They even pretend that 'wet dreams' don't have anything to do with sexual dreams in their zeal for pretending sexual organs are perfectly normal and non sexual.

    The general public doesn't buy the bull.

    I also hate how they can't talk about three important topics: abortion, masturbation and homosexuality. WTF!?

  • 1 decade ago

    I never had it that long. Just one semester. That's all.

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