Should 'sex education' be taught in school or at home?

Sex education in schools can be a controversial subject. Is it encouraging irresponsible sexual behavior or is it reducing the risks of unplanned pregnancies and STD's?

What's your view? Do you think "sex ed" should be taught in school or left to the parents' discretion?

 

I don't see how SexEd encourages people to irresponisble sexual behavior. If you've ever taken that class all they do is show you how everything works and after that, all they do is say is DON'T FUCK OR YOUR BALLS WILL FALL OFF. They show you pictures of STI's that are gross beyond belief. The problem with teens is that a lot don't give a fuck and just want to look cool and have as much sex as possible.

 

Sex should be taught in both homes and in schools. I hate the part of America that belives sex is dirty and shouldn't be talked about or seen. If people where more open regarding the subject of sex there wouldn't be so many people un-informed.

 

I think sex education increases safety as pertains to sex. People who know what condoms are, what they're good for and how to put them on are far more likely to use them.

And I thin it should be taught both at home and in school. I'll admit that our school system's education system isn't the grandest, but it wasnt' terrible either (I'm in Canada remember). The bulk of what I know came from books my mom gave me (ie Sex: A User's Guide... some old version, published in like '88 or something) and told me to ask any questions it didn't answer. Aside from titillating 30+ pages of positions (with an average 5 positions per page), there was lots of info on contraception, STD's, anatomy, a little on kinks, and a history of a lot of the stuff (ie history of birth control). But the classes did teach me on top of what my mom did, so, s'all good.

 

Unfortunately, sex education in most schools is taught simply as a reproductive issue. This causes a huge problem because they don't deal with the other facets of sex, simply out of curiosity of enjoyment. ...which is the reason most children are enjoying themselves sexually anyways, not to have children.

I think it should be taught in schools, but under the current curriculum.

Parents are unreliable to teach their children much. ..both parents work 40 hours a week, their children are placed in front of a television as a make-shift babysitter.

 

um a lot of parents i know....in fact most of them do not set very good examples for their children when it comes to sex & are quite irresponsible in that department. i think it should be taught in school otherwise a lot of kids would just learn the hard way.

 

i think it should be taught in school, though some parent's have every right to be notified beforehand and choose whether or not their child should participate. it's their right as parents. most parents i've ever known are perfectly willing to have someone else teach the particulars of the act and protection, while the nuances, politics and morality is taught at home. people have the right to teach morality to their children, no matter the consequences.

 

it should be taught, hands on, in coeducational gymnasiums.
should is of course a slippery word.
but really; no one should ever be denied factual knowledge of real options and risks.
and not just some of them, nor from a biased perspective.

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that's a tougher oneer there me friend, i gotta to says i don't thinks tht they ...it's a tough situation , they taught sex ed to us in fifth grade and to me that's just too young, it's no wonder all the babies are havin babies, i don't know though, i can't relaly blame it on one thing, maybe i shouldn't blame it on anything, all i know is that i don't know.

 

I think it should be taught both at home and at school. Just to be sure that kids are getting the right info... besides, there are some parents that are weird about talking to their kids about that sort of thing.

 

i'm ok with the book teaching in schools but i a lil leary of the hands on applications and tests if we don't get to choose our partners

 

Ideally, sexual education should start in the home, definitely, then schools should do their part to encourage abstinence and safe sex practices. However, unfortunately, in today's world, many kids are brought up in bad homes with crappy parents, and the kids are probably better off learning about sex from their friends than their families.

So, do I believe factual sexual education should be brought back into schools? Absolutely. Should it replace the values and morals your family can teach you about sex? Of course not. Too many people see this subject as a black and white situation, when in either case, parents should take the responsibility to explain their take on sex. After all, they help to instill and influence the values you have about everything else, sex should be another of those values.

 

"You don't go rushing for the clitoris like a bull out of the gate" - John Cleese in Monty Python and the meaning of life.

 

Hahahaha, everytime I hear "sex ed," I think about that scene, Mike.

 

Maybe it shouldnt be taught at all. I know i learned more about sex from my peirs than i ever did in the few sex education seminars our school hosted.

But one things for sure: i definetly never wanted to talk about sex with my parents.

 

Home.

 

Public schooling only serves one purpose, and it isn't to teach or instill any sort of values. Kids leave middle school knowing everything about sex and how to put a condom on a banana, but they can't discern "their" from "there."

 

I totally agree, pressed rat.

 

it's interesting to look at the statistics of teen pregnancy in states which have abstinence only sex education versus the states that have more informative, factual sex ed. states which have abstinence only sex ed (think bible belt, etc.) have MUCH higher incidences of teen pregnancy. kids need to know the facts, IMO.

 

whoa, old thread....

what are we defining as "sex ed"?

i think people should learn the biological and physiological processes of the body when you have sex and the after effects of sex, and possible consequences of having sex.