BS: Sexual Literacy Test

Subject: BS: Sexual Literacy Test
From: GUEST,Saulgoldie
Date: 03 Apr 05 - 08:49 AM

How much do you REALLY know? Think so, eh?

http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/sexed/index.html

Subject: RE: BS: Sexual Literacy Test
From: Sooz
Date: 03 Apr 05 - 09:36 AM

Nice one! There are some in the UK who would want us to go down this road.

Subject: RE: BS: Sexual Literacy Test
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Apr 05 - 11:15 AM

And why exazctly are parents relying on schools to provide sex education and guidelines for their teenagers?

Subject: RE: BS: Sexual Literacy Test
From: saulgoldie
Date: 03 Apr 05 - 11:27 AM

Many parents choose to cheat their children out of sex ed, but are not satisfied to leave it at that. They feel the need (and the right!) to deprive OTHERS of such education in the schools by making the curriculum a course of disinformation when taught at all. I consider this child abuse of not only their own children, but of others as well.

Furthermore, their espoused motivations are to reduce pregnancy and STD transmission. But a closer look shows that they really seek to make everyone as sexually dysfuntional as they are. If they really wanted to reduce pregnancy and STDs, then they wouldn't oppose accurate information and condom distribution.

Subject: RE: BS: Sexual Literacy Test
From: alanabit
Date: 03 Apr 05 - 12:00 PM

Anybody doubting the wisdom of the previous comments ought to know that the country with the lowest rate of teenage pregnancy in Europe is Holland. It also has one of the lowest rates of drug abuse among young people as it happens. It is a good example of what can happen in a country which stresses proper education rather than trying to impose one's own moral choices on young people.

Subject: RE: BS: Sexual Literacy Test
From: saulgoldie
Date: 03 Apr 05 - 03:37 PM

C'mon, people. It's about S-E-X, fer crine out loud!

Subject: RE: BS: Sexual Literacy Test
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 03 Apr 05 - 07:57 PM

Not content with spreading misery and stone age conditions around the world, and financial misery in his own country as well as thoroughout the worls, the maniac has to spread sexual misery too?

If the right to bear arms in the USA really has meaning why does this moron live?

Subject: RE: BS: Sexual Literacy Test
From: Peace
Date: 03 Apr 05 - 08:11 PM

Richard,

Bush thought it was this:

The right to bare arms: no one forced to get tattoos.

Subject: RE: BS: Sexual Literacy Test
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 03 Apr 05 - 08:38 PM

god help the world if it had to rely on my parents for sex education - or me for that matter

sex education is a good idea

I wish I'd had one

Subject: RE: BS: Sexual Literacy Test
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 03 Apr 05 - 08:45 PM

ALL education is a good idea

Subject: RE: BS: Sexual Literacy Test
From: dianavan
Date: 03 Apr 05 - 08:58 PM

I agree with sex education but I'm not sure if teachers are prepared for the daunting task. Maybe a public health nurse, in the classroom, would be more appropriate. Remember, all teachers have different views and so do administrators. It would also be very difficult to teach sex ed to a group of co-ed students.

When I was in school they called it Health and I took the class in summer school. The kids were from all over the city, boys in one class and girls in another. I was given a topic that had to be discussed with the boys and the outcome presented to the girls.

I started by asking what they thought about about, "Necking, Petting and Making Out." A boy in the back raised his hand and said, "Its O.K. with me, baby, if its O.K. with you." Everyone laughed except me. I was near tears.

I also watched "Reefer Madness" in that class. The teacher never mentioned condoms or birth control. Nor did she breathe a word about female orgasm. I also remember a teacher insisting that shaving your legs was part of good physical hygiene. What????????????????

Why should teachers have to tackle this daunting task? Seems to me that an awful lot of responsibility is off-loaded onto the school system. This is clearly a public health issue and nurses should be delivering the message in the schools.

Subject: RE: BS: Sexual Literacy Test
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Apr 05 - 09:03 PM

If I thought Bush could read, I'd recommend a couple of good books 'Hair in funny places' and 'Mummy laid an egg' both by Babette Cole.

They're both very clear, very funny and very VERY informative. Parents need to do their part in educating children too!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Sexual Literacy Test
From: Peace
Date: 03 Apr 05 - 10:21 PM

"The gun's loaded now; keep it zipped" is often the only sex ed kids get at home. Schools began to teach sex ed in Canada after it was determined that parents weren't. Been going on for decades.

Subject: RE: BS: Sexual Literacy Test
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Apr 05 - 05:24 AM

I got most of my "education" via my sister... it's a wonder I grew up as normal as I did!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Sexual Literacy Test
From: Terry K
Date: 04 Apr 05 - 08:04 AM

Can someone educate me how to get more......

Subject: RE: BS: Sexual Literacy Test
From: saulgoldie
Date: 04 Apr 05 - 08:30 AM

Sex education has been an abdicated responsibility by many parents, many of them sexually illiterate and dysfunctional themselves. It is a public health issue in many ways. That is why it has to be taken up in a public arena. Some parents may choose to keep their kids out of it, and they are the kids that probly need it the most.

But what can you do when society favors parents' complete control over their offspring above the greater good of the needs of those children. That is why child abuse has been tolerated so much for so long. Perhaps we will evolve to the point where denying a child the knowledge of their bodies so that they can live healthy lives is also considered abuse as are (finally) obvious physical, emotional, and sexual abuse today.

Subject: RE: BS: Sexual Literacy Test
From: GUEST,Galadriel
Date: 04 Apr 05 - 08:30 AM

Subject: RE: BS: Sexual Literacy Test
From: saulgoldie
Date: 04 Apr 05 - 08:31 AM

Terry, you can increase your odds of getting more by asking for it. Studies show that those who ask for sex have vastly improved odds of actually getting it. Go figure.

Subject: RE: BS: Sexual Literacy Test
From: Terry K
Date: 04 Apr 05 - 10:18 AM

now Goldie sounds like a girl, but Saul ..........nah, too risky, I'm not going to ask.

Subject: RE: BS: Sexual Literacy Test
From: saulgoldie
Date: 04 Apr 05 - 10:50 AM

No prob, Terry. Goldie is a family online name for Goldberg.

But I have no problem, also with people questioning my gender identity. I am secure enough with who I am so that such things do not bother me. Those who truly need to know, know. For anyone else, it is not their concern, TTYTT.

Subject: RE: BS: Sexual Literacy Test
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 04 Apr 05 - 11:34 AM

Most beings called Goldie are Labrador Retrievers, here in the UK. Terry, this could prove a problem for you.

Subject: RE: BS: Sexual Literacy Test
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Apr 05 - 02:50 PM

Or not as the case may be......


Baaaa

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Sexual Literacy Test
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 04 Apr 05 - 02:52 PM

"I got most of my "education" via my sister..."

So just like the rest of your hometown

:-P

Heh

Subject: RE: BS: Sexual Literacy Test
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Apr 05 - 02:55 PM

Normally Clinton, I'd take umbrage at that but I know my sister..... : ]

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Sexual Literacy Test
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 04 Apr 05 - 02:59 PM

LOL

(And well, you KNOW how SERIOUS I was...)

heh

Subject: RE: BS: Sexual Literacy Test
From: GUEST,Paul Burke
Date: 05 Apr 05 - 04:05 AM

Look, in a good Catholic grammar school in the 60s, all the sex education we got was 'don't play with yourself' put so tangentially we didn't know what they were on about. The Brothers didn't know any more anyway. I remember a long and serious conversation about someones' sister who got pregnant: didn't God KNOW she wasn't married? As for the womb, it was something spotty that held fruit. Reasoning? A hymn: "..the one spotless womb wherein Jesus was laid..", so they must normally be spotty. "Blessed is tyhe fruit of thy womb, Jesus.."- so they were filled with fruit.

My kids know a lot better that that, and it shows.

Subject: RE: BS: Sexual Literacy Test
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Apr 05 - 07:12 AM

MY SISTER WAS UGLY

Subject: RE: BS: Sexual Literacy Test
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 05 Apr 05 - 01:54 PM

I didn't have any sisters and thankfully my brothers didn't try to educate me. I could think of nothing I would have liked less than talking to my mother about sex so sex education at school would always be my favourite. I went to an all girls school and we had some very good informative speakers in as well as the biological details in science but the main problem was it was left until the sixth form by which time many of us knew more than they did!

Subject: RE: BS: Sexual Literacy Test
From: GUEST,Saulgoldie
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 02:58 PM

OTOH, I would also be thrilled to have mine own thread reach 100!

Subject: RE: BS: Sexual Literacy Test
From: Grab
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 05:47 PM

"I got most of my "education" via my sister..."

If you weren't female Liz, I'd say this is just like Norfolk...

Graham.

PS. For the benefit of USians, Norfolk is like Louisiana, only colder.

Subject: RE: BS: Sexual Literacy Test
From: Peace
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 07:43 PM

Well, saul, I wouldn't want you sayin' "The thrill is gone." Here's a post to help you along.