If you teach about condoms, you might go to jail!

Huh, my PE/Health teacher was accused of being a lesbian and hitting on students.

TheHedonist wrote:

Blooferlady wrote:

Did you have Mo, and did she teach you about
BATTLEFIELD: VAGINA.

Best Health class ever.

Can you explain the pocket to me?

UTILIZE THE POCKET.

It will forever remain a mystery to those not in my class.

You dropped your pocket.

Seule wrote:

THERE WERE TESTS

WITH DIAGRAMS


oh god what dark pocket of memory have i opened

Consider yourself lucky. When I started asking questions, my mom gave me a book, which we have since figured out is the exact same book she gave every single one of her kids when we started asking about sex (and my oldest sister is 18 years older than me, which gives you some idea as to the era it dated from).

Nowhere in that book did it say anything about how the egg and the sperm got together. It said nothing about intercourse. I ended up having to figure the whole thing out myself by sneaking peaks at the pornography our local drug store sold (yes, they had hardcore porno books right out on the rack where anyone could pick them up and read them). That is NOT a good way to learn about sex, especially when you're all of 12-years old. It leaves you with some screwed up ideas that it's taken me years to work my way through.

Which is probably why, when the boys started asking questions when my best friend was pregnant with her second baby, I sat them down and explained it to them in simple, easy to understand terms that didn't leave their tiny three-year-old brains totally boggled. From there, it was simply a matter of giving more detail as they got older.

I'd sooner have had someone explain sex to me honestly and rationally than go through what I went through, but my mother absolutely refused to discuss the subject, and all they ever taught us about in school was periods. No mention was ever made of sex where boys and girls were concerned till I was well into high school, and by then, the damage had already been done.

ZoZo wrote:

Maybe they'll realise they fucked up when they become the clap capital of the USA.

Hmmmm. "Clap Capital of the USA". That actually rolls off the tongue pretty nicely. It's got a good ring to it. That sounds like it would go pretty nicely on a state billboard.

There is only so many times can you get the clap, before it turns into applause.

Psy-4 wrote:

There is only so many times can you get the clap, before it turns into applause.

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I went to a Catholic elementary school, and we had sex ed in 6th grade. A local pediatrician came in and told us about where babies came from (not that most of us hadn't already figured it out), and he even told us about condoms and other contraceptives. He said that good Catholics wait until marriage to have sex, and then they should do it to have babies, but if we weren't going to be good Catholics, this was how we protected ourselves. We didn't learn anything about STDs, though I'm sure the doctor had encountered cases of them. It may have been because although AIDS was around in 1988, it wasn't as well-publicized as it is now, and when it was publicized, it was often considered a "gay problem" (actually, two years later, my eighth grade science class did blood type tests on ourselves, and no one said a word about blood-borne diseases or not touching anyone else's blood, or even about cleaning our fingers before sticking them with sharp objects, which tells you something about how long it took for the danger presented by HIV and other blood-borne illnesses to reach the general consciousness).