SEX? Please explain!?

Hello Tarah,

I actually agree with you. I do respond to a few teenagers asking about sex, but only if they are asking about the risks or worried questions. Depending on which state the child lives in will determine if they are taught sex ed. Even then, it will be structured on what can and can not be said. For example, Texas only teaches abstines but will hand out condoms like hot cakes. Utah will teach the dangers of sex to hopefully keep the kids away from it. In these cases I would say it leads to harm rather than knowledge. I was more curious after sex ed than before, and was left with questions for my science teacher. Poor guy...

Anyways. Are parents talking to their kids? Most likely not. The evidence is clear based on how many sexual questions asked by teens on here. The only thing beating it in number one question is "How do I ask out my crush?" What needs to be done is the same thing that is being told to parents about underage drinking/smoking. "Don't be a bobblehead parent." or "Make your statement clear." Friends and Social Media/**** is what is left for the kids to learn from. Last I check, **** sites don't exactly have commercials for underage protection and sexual awareness, Social Media thrives of kids making mistakes, and friends are all about per pressure. So yeah, parents kind of fail on the Birds and the Bees, and this really needs to change.

Yep I'm a teen and I never got sex Ed. Where I live we get 1 health class in 9th grade about drugs and alcohol and how bad they are but nothing about sex.Once we pass that class we never take another health class for the rest of high school.My parents never gave me the talk and my friends never got it either. It would have been nice to been taught this kind of stuff instead of street names for coke.