Petition to make consent part of sex ed in schools in US

[gremcint]

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pet...hools/40hYbWMj

Please sign this. It doesn't require you to be in the states

[Sarah Valentine]

It's very upsetting that we actually need a petition to teach something that should be common sense.

[Akasa]

Not all states have sex ed.

[PepperElf]

It's very upsetting that we actually need a petition to teach something that should be common sense.

Pretty much. I mean … i don't know about other schools, but in mine they taught that already. And that was back in the 80s.

And my teacher also included the nugget that a real man waits for his partner to be ready too.

[Gravekeeper]

Not all states have sex ed.

See thats the part that scares me.

[RedRoseSpiral]

They never went over consent in my school. Just what would happen to your dick if you went to a 3rd world country and contracted a STD.

[HYHYBT]

We learned all sorts of things in there that they're apparently not allowed to teach anymore.

[s_stabeler]

yeah, I'd agree- add consent to the syllabus. Though no doubt there'll be some religious wacko who protests.

[Greenday]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.1295680

The University of Tennessee was going to have "Sex Week". Basically, it was going to be a week containing workshops on having a safe sexual health life. Stuff like that is kind of important in that kind of environment. Naturally, all the uptight conservative congressmen running the state got their panties in a wad and decided to threaten to pull funding from the school if they did it.

[Geekus Rex]

Hmmm... when I was a much younger man and in school. I was taught that anything but an outright "yes" meant "no"... not that it shouldn't be taught today, just saying that this isn't exactly new education...

[Gravekeeper]

I will *never* understand the American conservative problem with sex. Take out sex and insert any other potentially life damaging item and its just pure insanity.

Hey, we know you have a loaded firearm with you at all times but we're not going to teach you anything about it, how to use it properly or how not to do irreperable damage to your life with it. We'll just pretend it doesn't exist and hope you won't use it till we decide you can. Oh and don't ask us about it or your family will shun you.

[wolfie]

Gravekeeper, you left out the part about "And even though we blocked all attempts to teach you how to handle it responsibly, if you have an accident with it that proper training would have allowed you to avoid, but that an untrained person wouldn't know how to prevent, it's 100% your fault."

[gremcint]

I will *never* understand the American conservative problem with sex. Take out sex and insert any other potentially life damaging item and its just pure insanity.

Hey, we know you have a loaded firearm with you at all times but we're not going to teach you anything about it, how to use it properly or how not to do irreperable damage to your life with it. We'll just pretend it doesn't exist and hope you won't use it till we decide you can. Oh and don't ask us about it or your family will shun you.

actually that sounds a lot like the american approach to gun control

[fireheart17]

This is why I'm so glad that sex ed down here runs on an "opt out" system. You can sign to say that you don't want your kid to do sex ed, but otherwise it's assumed that you do.

In Years 5-9 (some schools start a little later), kids will take part in sexual education. It is primarily an abstinence-plus approach, with a few things I can remember being thrown in:

Years 5/6 cover the "Where did I come from?" AGAIN, as well as the whole "this is what puberty looks like", details about the male/female reproductive system and all that.

Years 7-9 rehash the puberty part, but also go into detail about STI's and contraception. Usually at this year level (and sometimes in the lower classes), they'll do a "question box" where kids can put their really curly questions in anonymously, so that the only person who knows who wrote what is the teacher.

At least in my state, both groups are provided with information from the Sexual Health service. They also provide one of each of the contraceptive devices to the class, so they can show the kids what they look like. They do provide multiple condoms so the kids can practice using them too

And in both groups, they will make the students make a list of all the euphenisms for sex (all forms), penis, breasts, vagina etc. at the end, they'll make the kids tear up the list, burn it, whatever, and from them on out, they are to use the appropriate terms in class.

At least in Years 7-9, they do split the class up accordingly. There were a number of rumours flying around the week before we were about to start, including the one that the guys had to make plasticine models of the male reproductive system. My girlfriends and I were asking for weeks after that!

According to a guy I knew, at the high school I finished up at (not the high school I started at), they had the boys (at least) demonstrate they knew how to use a condom, with the result being a "condom licence."

In year 9 for sex ed (at an all-girls school) we were provided with these models of a banana that when you took the top off, it was a plastic penis. Apparently you could fill them with water and squirt them too.

In all of those courses though, we were taught that abstinence is the safest way to not get pregnant, but we were also taught that should we choose to go down that path, we were to do it safely.

[Ginger Tea]

Hmmm... when I was a much younger man and in school. I was taught that anything but an outright "yes" meant "no"... not that it shouldn't be taught today, just saying that this isn't exactly new education...

Nowadays it's no means yes and yes means anal.

My Junior school had basic sex ed, we were around 10 or 11 last year before hitting big school, nothing graphic and was mildly off putting tbh seeing a family of 4 playing tennis naked, looking back now, it's even more off putting showing nude children (even if they were playing tennis) to children around the same age.
I don't recall much else from that set of lessons although it was repeated in first or second form, but the teacher was a bit too shy to be handling teenage girls asking about willies, so you really should have someone with confidence, not saying you should go all monty python and shag your wife in the class room, but how are you expected to remember any of this when after class everyone is singing "teacher is a virgin?"