In this thread here
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.75485?page=1

I felt many foreigners (that's pronounced fuhrn-nerz) were unfairly portraying our educational system. Specifically sexual health.

The thing with the USA is not everything is uniform because it's the third most populous nation in the world (I think it's like 4.5% of the world population more than 300 million don't quote me on that though) the largest that allows individual areas to govern themselves to a degree. So you CANNOT make broad generalizing strokes about Americans in almost any sort of way.

That being said; let us satiate curiosities about the Sex Ed in your individual areas.

Example: Here's how we do it in ignorant, podunk, backwoods, evil red state
- Nebraska -

In my public school we had sex ed that was basically the mechanics and simplified biological explanation at 5th grade (ages 10-11) this was basically a 'here's where babies come from' thing.
Then in 7th grade (that's 12-13) they went over more specifics and began explaining the hygiene, STD's, habits, as well as some cultural and societal values and norms. We also watched a video of a child being born.
In 10th grade(about 15-16) They repeat everything above, add slide shows of STDs explain emotional and psychological readiness. The consequences of childbearing. A lot about contraceptives. On a kind of different note this class also talks about drug use pretty extensively and suicide things like that.

The tone of all our classes did stress abstinence as the best method to avoid pregnancy and STD's but did allow us to learn about other methods quite a lot.

Despite all this the urban areas of our state has some of the highest percentage of STDs in the country in young people.

This is in no way me defending the Botarded law we passed.
Here's about 50 articles on the Botarded law
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10458731

What you discribed is pretty much exactly how it is here in wyoming. Also, your title made me laugh. Awesome

gamebrain89:
What you discribed is pretty much exactly how it is here in wyoming. Also, your title made me laugh. Awesome

I don't believe you, Wyoming doesn't exist.

Gxas:

gamebrain89:
What you discribed is pretty much exactly how it is here in wyoming. Also, your title made me laugh. Awesome

I don't believe you, Wyoming doesn't exist.

No. It does...the legends are true.

EDIT: Sex ed in Philadelphia is basically, don't do it if you don't want to risk kids.

Gxas:

gamebrain89:
What you discribed is pretty much exactly how it is here in wyoming. Also, your title made me laugh. Awesome

I don't believe you, Wyoming doesn't exist.

Thats because you don't know the secret word to make it appear for you to get in BWAHAHAHAHAHA.

I don't particularly agre with the idea myself, but as far as avoiding pregnancy and STDs, abstinence really is the only really effective deterrent. After all, there's very little chance of getting anything without having sex, right?
Of course, few people actually want to take that route.

Title changed to be more reflective of the topic's content.

ace_of_something:
In this thread here
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.75485?page=1

I felt many foreigners (that's pronounced fuhrn-nerz) were unfairly portraying our educational system. Specifically sexual health.

The thing with the USA is not everything is uniform because it's the third most populous nation in the world (I think it's like 4.5% of the world population more than 300 million don't quote me on that though) the largest that allows individual areas to govern themselves to a degree. So you CANNOT make broad generalizing strokes about Americans in almost any sort of way.

That being said; let us satiate curiosities about the Sex Ed in your individual areas.

Example: Here's how we do it in ignorant, podunk, backwoods, evil red state
- Nebraska -

In my public school we had sex ed that was basically the mechanics and simplified biological explanation at 5th grade (ages 10-11) this was basically a 'here's where babies come from' thing.
Then in 7th grade (that's 12-13) they went over more specifics and began explaining the hygiene, STD's, habits, as well as some cultural and societal values and norms. We also watched a video of a child being born.
In 10th grade(about 15-16) They repeat everything above, add slide shows of STDs explain emotional and psychological readiness. The consequences of childbearing. A lot about contraceptives. On a kind of different note this class also talks about drug use pretty extensively and suicide things like that.

The tone of all our classes did stress abstinence as the best method to avoid pregnancy and STD's but did allow us to learn about other methods quite a lot.

Despite all this the urban areas of our state has some of the highest percentage of STDs in the country in young people.

This is in no way me defending the Botarded law we passed.
Here's about 50 articles on the Botarded law
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10458731

I'm in California, and my schools did it fairly similarly, except for the last part about abstinence. They still recommended it but they admitted to not being naive enough to think that everyone will be.

I don't remember what my teachers taught me for sex ed.

Needless to say, it was unclear and confusing.

quickpaw:
Until you have a teen pregnancy rate that is not one of theworst in the world then you have to right to complain about other people's portrayal of your sex education system.

Oh and did you realise how bigoted it made you sound when you blamed Foreigners in your 2nd line.

I don't think you caught my subtle ribbing there (I'm gonna call that a sexual pun) I mean no disrespect. I would explain it but if i had to explain the joke it wasn't a good one.

However, when i say fuhrners I mean anyone who is not from my neighborhood. Encompassing about 5,999,999,947 people. Don't feel left out.

I can't say much about sex ed, since I don't remember having heard much of it in school/high school, and having learned most of it either through biology classes or by talking with my parents (a surgeon and his assistant).

So well, I can't say much, but I heard teen pregnancies are a growing problem in France (more than before), but I'll blame it on the oversexed teen pop singers we imported from the US, then created in vats as well to sell pieces of overhyped merchandising shit and give teenage idiots a homegrown fap material... I'll also blame RealTV "games" such as Big Brother and that one on the island (I only know the name of the French version).

Cyclomega:
I can't say much about sex ed, since I don't remember having heard much of it in school/high school, and having learned most of it either through biology classes or by talking with my parents (a surgeon and his assistant).

So well, I can't say much, but I heard teen pregnancies are a growing problem in France (more than before), but I'll blame it on the oversexed teen pop singers we imported from the US, then created in vats as well to sell pieces of overhyped merchandising shit and give teenage idiots a homegrown fap material... I'll also blame RealTV "games" such as Big Brother and that one on the island (I only know the name of the French version).

I think the show you are thinking of is Survivor.

Europeans know as little about the US as Americans know about Europe.

I don't even know enough about my neighbour city to judge it, so wtf?

bigcountry78:
I went to Catholic School in Southern Illinois. It was almost as you described it but we started in 6th grade, and continued through 12th grade, though I couldn't not laugh about all that stuff until at least 9th grade (I usually had to go out into the hall because me and most of the boys were laughing to hard to take it serious).

Though we pronouce it FAR-ner.

I would expect a furhner like yourself to say it all crazy-like.

I had friends in middle school (who went to a different school) where the instructor when showing the a frontal view of female genital anatomy overlaid it with the ram's head logo of their mascot to help them remember the parts for the test.

After seeing said logo I can say that it is uncanny.

in England i wasn't even taught about abstinence i only learnt people encouraged it in school though that family guy episode where Meg becomes abstinence. i admit this is a stupid way to learn it and we should have been taught about it. it seems like a really stupid thing to do, depraving yourself of your strongest desire for little reason. also on a similar subject i hate the Jonas brothers.
also did anyone else do the putting condoms on a blue dildo thing?

Sirisaxman:

I think the show you are thinking of is Survivor.

Nope, the other one, where six couples are separated on two islands filled with whores and gigolos and they come here to "test their love" and all miserably fail in less than 24 hours, try to make up, but keep on failing because they are all idiots who think with their genitals...
In French it's called L'île de la tentation (which would be Temptation Island), but I don't know the English name...

Cyclomega:

Sirisaxman:

I think the show you are thinking of is Survivor.

Nope, the other one, where six couples are separated on two islands filled with whores and gigolos and they come here to "test their love" and all miserably fail in less than 24 hours, try to make up, but keep on failing because they are all idiots who think with their genitals...
In French it's called L'île de la tentation (which would be Temptation Island), but I don't know the English name...

yeah it called that temptation island in England, piece of shit isn't. i know as soon as that started the world had finally thrown of any last shackles of self respect or decency

They didn't say a thing about tampons.
Sorry, but I hate pads, and think that people have the right to choose...

Up in Canada we started the beginings of sexual education in gr1. And I went to a catholic school. Sure they didn't really get into the biological functions and pictures untill gr3. But alot of that teaching was done in a semi-religious context.

By semi-religious I mean that this is done because a man and a women are married to one another and they are doing this for the reason of having a child. Though there was none of this "you are going to burn in hell if you don't...." stuff going on.

By the time we hit around gr7 (as with op) they started teaching about STDs etc...

I think the main cause of the higher than average STD levels in urban areas is going to be more the demographic of the population or the social class although proper education is helping, and I would hate to see what would happen if doctors and schools would still be forbidden to talk about contraceptives and profilactics. The term, "you ain't seen nothin' yet" comes to mind.

Erana:
They didn't say a thing about tampons.
Sorry, but I hate pads, and think that people have the right to choose...

The fact you said "right to choose" juste made me laugh.

Let's get pro-choice about period-related paraphernalia !

Even though I attended Catholic school, they didn't take the abstinence only approach. The sex education just stuck to the facts, i.e. the consequences of unprotected sex, the use of contraceptives, abstinence as the only sure-fire way to keep anything from happening. Although marriage was emphasized as sacred, it was also portrayed as a safety net for starting a family.

I grew up in Vancouver, on the West coast of Canada. We got the puberty stuff in grades 4-7, which had the biology of babymaking worked into it. I think there might have been some stuff about STDs. In grade 8 we got the warnings. I don't think we talked about contraception in any great detail, but I remember that the teacher looked surprised when somebody suggested abstinence as a way to avoid pregnancy; I guess they just weren't dumb enough to think that any of us were going to take that route if we had a choice. Instead, they warned us of dire consequences and encouraged us to know preventative measures in detail. In grade 9 we got taught about human reproduction in science. And I think that was about it. Must have worked; there was only one pregnancy in my high school for the whole five years I was there.

quickpaw:
Until you have a teen pregnancy rate that is not one of the worst in the world then you have to right to complain about other people's portrayal of your sex education system.

Oh and did you realize how bigoted it made you sound when you blamed Foreigners in your 2nd line.

Seriously, he is soooooo right. Screw the sex education system in America, it is a complete joke. Abstinence only, as if that ever works. Give me a fucking break.

I remember in Middle School P.E. we had to label diagrams of male/female sexual organs and watch a bunch of hilariously awkward films. Then, in High School, we got the whole abstinance/safe sex seminar.

Feh, all unnecessary in my opinion. I had learned everything I needed to know about sex by age 12 from the Internet.

HSIAMetalKing:
I had learned everything I needed to know about sex by age 12 from the Internet.

...
That explains so much...

However they teach it, it will have no effect if no-one listens.

I have a suspicion that this is the real problem.

Sex Education is becoming a joke, don't get me wrong its an important subject and needs to be taught well, but in England and Wales they are going to start teaching it to 6 year olds to prevent teenage pregnancies. And I don't quite see how that works, at 6 they don't care about sex, they think the opposite gender is "ickie" and has "cooties".

In my school they didn't separate the two genders when teaching us and showing the video, so we were all there looking at the opposite gender's sexual organs at the same time. Does every school do this?

We had to watch hilarious sponsored videos that advertised certain brands of condoms and tampons. I can't believe they showed us infomercials in school.

quickpaw:
Until you have a teen pregnancy rate that is not one of theworst in the world then you have to right to complain about other people's portrayal of your sex education system.

Oh and did you realize(fixed how bigoted it made you sound when you blamed Foreigners in your 2nd line.

Well a lot of the cultures it is pretty much expected for women to have children at the age of 14 (I won't point fingers.) We have a lot of people from outside of our great country who come to make our country better (at least that's what I try to tell myself) When it it acceptable to get have children at 14 for girls then that would obviously skew the results.

On a personal note my parents didn't teach me about sex education and I never had any awkward talks. I just ended up learning it from Al Gore's Interweb and friends, but I expect my parents know I'm smart enough to 'wear glove' otherwise they would likely be worried.

It's high school...we've only watched one sex ed movie in our lives. It was a porno. Naw--just kidding. But seriously, we've only had one hour of one day devoted to sex education. It might as well have been a porno...it just said redundantly that the penis becomes erect when one is sexually stimulated. Any toddler knows that.

What they should do is break down the statistics of all contraceptive methods and have all the students Dungeons and Dragons that shit with some dice. No graphic narrative description of sex acts or anything perverse like that...

Just, Tommy chooses unprotected sex with pull out method... 60% chance and rolls the 100 sided dice... oh... 62, Susie is pregnant. Now lets roll for deformities.

For this reason I was an advocate of the Condom + Pull Out method... it's 85% roll with a 60% backup safety roll.. gotta hedge that shit.

i know the title says sex education in USA but hey i felt like posting the way its around in Holland.
My fhirst sex education was around the age of 12 at biology lessons its just one of the chapters of the book. and uhm i guesse i learned about Sexual transmitted disease stuff from TV commercials and biology lessons. :o it scared the shit out of me to see a picture of someone with herpes xD i guesse shocking is a good way to teach. and the rest was learned due conversations about sex and wikipedia.