Should teenagers be educated on safe sex practices? (1 Viewer)

[Gibberish]

I think teenagers in America (13+) should be educated on all forms of safe sex and all consequences related with having sex.

They should be given the proper oppurtunites to recieve the tools to have safe sex. I know my kids will have sex as teenagers as majority of all do and as I did. I am not ignorant of this fact and I do not want my teenagers to be ignorant about safe sex.

 

[Purple]

Definitely!

Teenagers have sex and no one can deny or stop it so they should be educated as much as possible. Though I think most of the education about sex should start in the home I know many parents don't want to talk about it.
I believe that schools should arrange classes to be taught by health care professionals that can give the best possible information.

 

[RightOfCenter]

Of course teenagers should be educated about safe sex, but it should also be reinforced time and time again that abstinance is the only 100% way to be safe.

 

[Gibberish]

Of course teenagers should be educated about safe sex, but it should also be reinforced time and time again that abstinance is the only 100% way to be safe.

Of course. It should not be educated as "here is how you have sex". It should be "This is what sex is, this is how it will affect your life in a negative manner, and here are the ways to avoid these negativities (with abstinence being number one)".

 

[Purple]

I have to say that I can't imagine anyone voting no. Even those who didn't have sex as teenagers can't really believe that abstinence is the only way to go. When I was in high school we had this women from the County Health Department come and show us how to use condoms and she showed some extremely nasty medical pictures of people with STD's.
In a perfect world people wouldn't have sex before they were mature enough to deal with it but since it isn't a perfect world we should work to educate.
Not talking about it doesn't make it go away.

 

[talloulou]

I think most everyone will answer this question yes. The problem isn't so much that there are many people who don't believe in educating our youth. The problem is how you define "education" and how much and in what manner you "educate." Some think handing out condoms and having kids practice putting them on bananas is too much. Others think free condoms should be available on school campus. Some think girls should only have access to birth control through their parents while others think the MAP should be sold at 7/11. Some think an underage girl has a right to an abortion without her parents knowledge and others think parental consent is necessary. Some think students should be told there is nothing wrong with being homosexual and others think there is something wrong with being homosexual.

You won't get many to admit they're against education but you will get many who claim the lines between "education" and "promotion" are blurred.

So I voted yes...but I think almost everyone will as the question doesn't touch on the real problems regarding defining healthy sex, promotion, handing out free gifts, and availability of birth control and abortion, ect...

 

[Captain America]

I wouldn't mind educating a few teenagers about safe sex as long as the were over 18. :mrgreen:

 

[Gibberish]

I wouldn't mind educating a few teenagers about safe sex as long as the were over 18. :mrgreen:

I guess I should have put 13+ in the question and not just in my first post?

 

[aps]

I think as part of that class, they should be given a doll and pretend that doll is a baby and document how they take care of that doll (feed, clean, put to sleep) over a 7-day period. Kids need to realize what will happen should they get pregnant (yes, some will abort, but some will not). They did that in my health class when I was in middle school, and it scared me!

 

[talloulou]

I guess I should have put 13+ in the question and not just in my first post?

aaah another point of dispute...At what age is sex ed appropriate? Some think 13 is too old and you waited too long. Some say 11 is too young!

Should abstinence be taught as part of sex ed or is that a waste of time? Should kids be encouraged to sign contracts saying they will save themselves for marriage or is that pointless?

What about morals and ethics? Should they be taught to save themselves for love, marriage or should they be taught the ways of the ethical slut?

Should the class be clinical or should it dive into philosophical, emotional, and spiritual conversatoins?

Are visual aids okay? Pictures of sexual positions, pics of STDS, pics of abortions????

Ask those questions and you'll get a variety of answers.

 

[Gibberish]

I think most everyone will answer this question yes. The problem isn't so much that there are many people who don't believe in educating our youth. The problem is how you define "education" and how much and in what manner you "educate." Some think handing out condoms and having kids practice putting them on bananas is too much. Others think free condoms should be available on school campus. Some think girls should only have access to birth control through their parents while others think the MAP should be sold at 7/11. Some think an underage girl has a right to an abortion without her parents knowledge and others think parental consent is necessary. Some think students should be told there is nothing wrong with being homosexual and others think there is something wrong with being homosexual.

You won't get many to admit they're against education but you will get many who claim the lines between "education" and "promotion" are blurred.

So I voted yes...but I think almost everyone will as the question doesn't touch on the real problems regarding defining healthy sex, promotion, handing out free gifts, and availability of birth control and abortion, ect...

Should the questions be something like this?

1. Yes, open and detailed discussion of sex education
- Explanation of diseases and how to prevent getting them, explanation of pregnancy and how to avoid, how to properly use safe sex tools including abstinence and number one.

2. Yes, conservative textbook education only
- Sex leads to pregnancy and disease so don't do it.

3. No, I don't want school teaching sex education
- If you either don't wish your children to know or want to teach your children yourself without any other perspectives.

 

[Gibberish]

aaah another point of dispute...At what age is sex ed appropriate? Some think 13 is too old and you waited too long. Some say 11 is too young!

Should abstinence be taught as part of sex ed or is that a waste of time? Should kids be encouraged to sign contracts saying they will save themselves for marriage or is that pointless?

What about morals and ethics? Should they be taught to save themselves for love, marriage or should they be taught the ways of the ethical slut?

Should the class be clinical or should it dive into philosophical, emotional, and spiritual conversatoins?

Are visual aids okay? Pictures of sexual positions, pics of STDS, pics of abortions????

Ask those questions and you'll get a variety of answers.

I have no problem with my experience with sex ed.

4-5th grade education:
Learning the basics of "where babies come from" and what to except in the coming future (hormones, woman’s menstrual cycle, hair growth, etc.). This class required a parents permission slip and all kids who didn’t get permission went to a classroom to read silently.

4-5th grade students:
During this time just kissing a girl was a big thing.

Junior high education:
Learning the anatomy of the human body in science. Boys and girls locker rooms.

Junior high students:
Boyfriends and girlfriends were more frequent. "making-out" and touching in sexual places were common. In my particular junior high I remember a girl got suspended for performing oral sex on a boy in the bathroom.

High school education:
One semester class specific to sexual education

High school students:
Sexual situations are abundant and is talked about daily. Some people are having sex and some aren't. By senior year a majority of students have had sex at least once and a little less of that number is having sex continuously.

 

[talloulou]

Should the questions be something like this?

1. Yes, open and detailed discussion of sex education
- Explanation of diseases and how to prevent getting them, explanation of pregnancy and how to avoid, how to properly use safe sex tools including abstinence and number one.

2. Yes, conservative textbook education only
- Sex leads to pregnancy and disease so don't do it.

3. No, I don't want school teaching sex education
- If you either don't wish your children to know or want to teach your children yourself without any other perspectives.

I understand what you are trying to learn from the poll but I'm not sure how to best ask the question. That's the problem with polls. You can ask literally the same question with just changes in wording and receive different answers from the same people. I'm just pointing out that the problem isn't that there is a large group of people who believe in not educating our youth when it comes to sex. The problem is there are large groups of people who think their way of education is the best way and other ways are faulty.

I think the computer has become such a widely used tool though that it's almost impossible to have kids who are too ignorant on sex and how to keep from getting pregnant.

 

[Captain America]

I think as part of that class, they should be given a doll and pretend that doll is a baby and document how they take care of that doll (feed, clean, put to sleep) over a 7-day period. Kids need to realize what will happen should they get pregnant (yes, some will abort, but some will not). They did that in my health class when I was in middle school, and it scared me!

Some sex toys too! Hot wax. And maybe some tasty body lotions...... huhhh..huhh..huh..uhh..uhhh.........:rofl








Just kidding....of course.:3oops:

 

[tryreading]

...the ethical slut?

Is there any other kind?

 

[FallingPianos]

I think teenagers in America (13+) should be educated on all forms of safe sex and all consequences related with having sex.

They should be given the proper oppurtunites to recieve the tools to have safe sex. I know my kids will have sex as teenagers as majority of all do and as I did. I am not ignorant of this fact and I do not want my teenagers to be ignorant about safe sex.

I think the pole should clarify whether you mean in school or by the parents. In both cases though, I would say yes. its information that everyone will need to know later if not now.

 

[Stinger]

I think teenagers in America (13+) should be educated on all forms of safe sex and all consequences related with having sex.

They should be given the proper oppurtunites to recieve the tools to have safe sex. I know my kids will have sex as teenagers as majority of all do and as I did. I am not ignorant of this fact and I do not want my teenagers to be ignorant about safe sex.

Sure, when they get to high school take the boys into thier gym and the girls into thiers. In the boys show them a film showing penis's with syphlis ulcers and gonerrea and warts, show them interviewing young men who impregenated a girl while they were in school and how it effected thier lives. In the girls do the same shoing vagina's infected with various VD's, make them sit through hours of watching interviews of young girls who had babies when they were teens, how hard thier life is, how the boy who would always be there is no where to be seen. Show them both what and AID's suffer goes through during the last months of life. And they them the only way to be sure is abstinence.

And bring the shame back.

IOW scare the you know what out of them. That's what they did to us, worked better than what they do now.

 

[Sir_Alec]

Is there any other kind?

Well there is a book my female friend once read called The Ethical Slut. It is available here

 

[talloulou]

Is there any other kind?

The lying dog?

 

[Dogger807]

I think it's obvious kids are gonna find out about sex. Internet, friends, etc etc..... It's not a question of whether they should be educated or not. It's a question of how much information is held back for fear that they will have sex. A losing proposition if I ever saw one.

I personally don't think there's any "too much information" for children here.

I'd rather they learn it from a responsible adult than learning on their own..... and they will learn on their own one way or another.

 

[CaptainCourtesy]

As with everyone else, I voted 'yes'. Information is power. I have taught sex education, and I have been amazed at the complete misinformation that teenagers have around sex. I have actually heard questions like: 'I can't get pregnant the first time I have sex, can I?', 'Can you get an STD from oral sex?', 'The withdrawl method is really safe, right?' Abstinance needs to be a part of a complete sex education program, but it is important that all aspects be discussed. Abstinance-only programs have been shown have no impact on teenager's sexual activity, anyway.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6448213/did/6894568

 

[FallingPianos]

I think it's obvious kids are gonna find out about sex. Internet, friends, etc etc..... It's not a question of whether they should be educated or not. It's a question of how much information is held back for fear that they will have sex. A losing proposition if I ever saw one.

thats a really good point. If we dont give teens information about safe sex, they will get misinformation about safe sex, which can be even more dangerous than no information at all.

 

[Stinger]

thats a really good point. If we dont give teens information about safe sex, they will get misinformation about safe sex, which can be even more dangerous than no information at all.

Why don't we concentrate on the dangers of sex for unmarried teenagers instead of concentrating on how to make it safe?

 

[CoffeeSaint]

Why don't we concentrate on the dangers of sex for unmarried teenagers instead of concentrating on how to make it safe?

What's the difference? Danger reduced, danger reduced; problem solved -- or at least ameliorated.

 

[Dogger807]

Why don't we concentrate on the dangers of sex for unmarried teenagers instead of concentrating on how to make it safe?

Because teenagers simply don't care.