Yes, sex ed should be vague and unhelpful. That way, kids are forced to experiment with each other and make mistakes like getting pregnant or contracting STIs out of ignorance.

R.A.Danny: She must be a blast in the sack.

Christine O'Donnell apparently was a wild screamer but did the prude thing in public...

This article is useless without pics. How are we to judge for ourselves whether the materials are explicit?

All you need for a proper sex ed class are bird and bee handpuppets.

R.A.Danny: She must be a blast in the sack.



I'd hit it.

Hahahaha, the thing about mapping out a route to an abortion clinic is hilarious.

She needs to get laid.

Look, sex-ed is easy:

Teach the biology and mechanics of reproduction, list some consequences of sexual activity (VD, etc.), and leave it.

Don't teach kids *how* to have sex, but don't cram abstinence down their throats, either. They'll figure out the rest on their own, as they should.

Harsh? Yes. But so is reality, which they'll have to eventually confront with the tools you're supposed to be helping them develop - curiosity, logic, reason, critical thinking, etc. - instead of the usual public education practice of stunting and crippling young minds so that non-ideas and dogmatic bullshiat sticks better.

For those of you unfamiliar with NYC Satan Island is where we keep our garbage

Bonanza Jellybean: Hahahaha, the thing about mapping out a route to an abortion clinic is hilarious.

Wait, what? That can't be real. No way.

Satanic_Hamster: Bonanza Jellybean: Hahahaha, the thing about mapping out a route to an abortion clinic is hilarious.

Wait, what? That can't be real. No way.

Even if true, the prudes are probably using "abortion clinic" to be synonymous with "Planned Parenthood."

When did explicit and graphic education become an issue? "We want our education general and vague!"

To: grundle
I think we can all give a huge round of applause for Pres. Clinton for bringing oral sex into the public domain. Sure, it existed prior to him - but it became 'mainstream' thanks to his escapades.
7 posted on Monday, October 24, 2011 3:30:08 PM by Hodar ( Who needs laws; when this FEELS so right?)


Grundle?

FARTNOISE FARTNOISE JUNIOR: Satanic_Hamster: Bonanza Jellybean: Hahahaha, the thing about mapping out a route to an abortion clinic is hilarious.

Wait, what? That can't be real. No way.

Even if true, the prudes are probably using "abortion clinic" to be synonymous with "Planned Parenthood."

Now that makes more sense. Maybe the lesson was "these are ways to find a gynecologist; if you're poor or have no health insurance, this is where you can find a website that lists free woman's health clinics in your area. If you have a STD, regardless of gender, here is how you can find a clinic."

If you're Bill O'Reilly, you say "abortion mill run by Tiller the Killer".

Jake Havechek: Grundle?

Also known as "the taint." It's the region between your genitals and your asshole.

Satanic_Hamster: Jake Havechek: Grundle?

Also known as "the taint." It's the region between your genitals and your asshole.

Nice.

Jake Havechek: Satanic_Hamster: Jake Havechek: Grundle?

Also known as "the taint." It's the region between your genitals and your asshole.

Nice.

If you had sex ed in high school you would have known that.

Satanic_Hamster: Jake Havechek: Satanic_Hamster: Jake Havechek: Grundle?

Also known as "the taint." It's the region between your genitals and your asshole.

Nice.

If you had sex ed in high school you would have known that.

Pffft, Sex Ed. That's what Penthouse Forum is for.

I've been unable to find anything official that actually mandates these things.

The best I could find so far is this^ (PDF) which only recommends curriculum from certain providers. These providers, in turn, offer entire catalogs of lesson plans for educators to choose from.

That's nothing even remotely approaching "mandating children visit goaskalice.com" or whatever. Color me shocked.
=Smidge=

Satanic_Hamster: Jake Havechek: Satanic_Hamster: Jake Havechek: Grundle?

Also known as "the taint." It's the region between your genitals and your asshole.

Nice.

If you had sex ed in high school you would have known that.

ftfy.

/pffffft, virgins ;)

Satanic_Hamster: FARTNOISE FARTNOISE JUNIOR: Satanic_Hamster: Bonanza Jellybean: Hahahaha, the thing about mapping out a route to an abortion clinic is hilarious.

Wait, what? That can't be real. No way.

Even if true, the prudes are probably using "abortion clinic" to be synonymous with "Planned Parenthood."

Now that makes more sense. Maybe the lesson was "these are ways to find a gynecologist; if you're poor or have no health insurance, this is where you can find a website that lists free woman's health clinics in your area. If you have a STD, regardless of gender, here is how you can find a clinic."

Who needs a gyno when you can pray the polyp away?

How about if you ask a woman to pull your nut sac up over your dick so it looks like a bullfrog?

monoski: R.A.Danny: She must be a blast in the sack.

Christine O'Donnell apparently was a wild screamer but did the prude thing in public...

Citation, please

Alice? Who the fark is Alice?

palelizard: Alice? Who the fark is Alice?

When men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving slow
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know

FARTNOISE FARTNOISE JUNIOR: Who needs a gyno when you can pray the polyp away?

I instantly thought of GoW3 and threw up in my mouth a little bit.

This nut needs to get a life. Her personal hang-ups should not deprive kids of necessary (and perfectly normal) information.

There is no perv as pervy as an activist prude.

My Big Fat Greek Assembly Woman

/is a prude

She's pretty hot, I guess, but probably not worth the bother.

FARTNOISE FARTNOISE JUNIOR: Even if true, the prudes are probably using "abortion clinic" to be synonymous with "Planned Parenthood."

Pretty much. Link (new window)

I make the mistake of commenting on articles posted from our papers website because it's where I live. I tend to use logic and reason, and they get reported/deleted a lot.

This one article in particular I linked to the CDC study on how teens are having sex and it's almost a 50/50 chance they did use condoms. I didn't see anything wrong with my post - but it got deleted. I have no doubt our elected reps pay staff to troll those boards.

S.I. can be very Conservatard and Derptastic.

"in saying she wants the city to offer parents an alternative curriculum predicated on abstinence from sexual activity. "

That line: Once I read it, I knew exactly the sort moron the article was dealing with.

Wookie Milson: She's pretty hot, I guess, but probably not worth the bother.

She's a Republican. I'm sure she can suck the fun out of anything.

Bonanza Jellybean: Hahahaha, the thing about mapping out a route to an abortion clinic is hilarious.

Yeah, they're totally trolling with that one.

physt: Wookie Milson: She's pretty hot, I guess, but probably not worth the bother.

She's a Republican. I'm sure she can suck the fun out of anything.

Giggity.

Staten Island sucks.


That is all.

Lernaeus: Look, sex-ed is easy:

Teach the biology and mechanics of reproduction, list some consequences of sexual activity (VD, etc.), and leave it.

Don't teach kids *how* to have sex, but don't cram abstinence down their throats, either. They'll figure out the rest on their own, as they should.

Harsh? Yes. But so is reality, which they'll have to eventually confront with the tools you're supposed to be helping them develop - curiosity, logic, reason, critical thinking, etc. - instead of the usual public education practice of stunting and crippling young minds so that non-ideas and dogmatic bullshiat sticks better.

How is any sort of informative/reality-based sex-ed curriculum supposed to avoid talking about the "how" part? Why would we want to avoid it? It seems that the problem is mainly the tension that some parents feel over their children losing the "innocence" of ignorance. Believing that most kids don't already have a very good idea of what is involved in sex by middle or high school is a joke: I knew what it meant in 2nd grade (not from personal experience, of course). And entertainment and so on has only gotten more explicit about it since then, so it's even more of a joke now.

Sex-ed needs to confront the reality that virtually all kids already know all about sex by that age and that many have already had it themselves. I'd like to see a reality-based, science-based, curriculum that isn't colored by religious bias, parental wishful thinking, hypocrisy, or lies. And I think it should go much further than just explaining biology and diseases: it should also go into the emotional and social aspects of sex. Most teenagers know what sex means, physically. They don't know how to navigate the somewhat complicated emotions and social situations that can be associated with it, yet, and so I think that that is where education should be focused: we should be equipping people to have GOOD, healthy, non-exploitative sex, not just telling them not to do it (which is absurd, since virtually everyone will have sex eventually). But that would require a sex-positive curriculum that acknowledges reality, and apparently would be too much for the pearl clutchers to even contemplate.