Federal Grants for Teaching No Sex til Marriage
The approach Canada takes is harm reduction. People are going to have sex it’s what were biologically driven to do. Just like eating and sleeping.
The point of sex ed is to 1) teach them the basics of their biology and 2) lower any possible harm to the person and thus the society.
Harm being, pregnancy, disease and just making bad decisions and their psychological repercussions.
I also do not think it should be taught by the parents. As I would want someone to knows what their talking about teaching the topic, like maybe an expert. I believe you’ll see far more misconceptions taught by parents and a lot more bias in general
Federal Grants for Teaching No Sex til Marriage
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Originally Posted by HinduKush83
Sex is something that should be taught in the home and NOT in a public school, although it doesn't work that way. The extent of sexual education should be about the physical sexual organs and how they operate, but there should certainly be no teaching of morality when it comes to sex and whether people should or should not have sex before marriage. It should be taught in the home or a private school. Canada is pretty lax about that and other people's lifestyles.
I definitely agree that anything regarding the morality of sex be taught in the home. It is a parent's right and nobody else's, to teach their children what is right and wrong. At least about something like sex and/or religion. Although I do think that, along with teaching "about the physical sexual organs and how they operate" they should also teach about STD's and their prevention, along with birth control.
The problem that many people, especially the right wing Bible thumpers, have is that by not teaching the morality aspect, there is the implication that it isn't an issue. "If you don't teach that sex before marriage is bad, you're teaching that it is good and telling kids they should go have sex." It is an absolutely stupid way of looking at things. But, it it becomes a choice of teaching abstinence before marraige along with the science vs teaching nothing at all, it is an important enough issue that I'll take the morality too. I'll just teach my daughter what I think is right or wrong at home.
The funny thing, I went to a Catholic high school (at least for two years before I was kicked out) and, as would be expected, they taught that sex before marraige will result in an eternity of burning in hell. Ironically, or maybe not so, Catholic girls were easy. I had sex with three different girls those first two years, 5 if, unlike Clinton, you count blow jobs. Once I got into public school, however, forget it. Getting into those girls pants was like trying to get into Fort Knox. Although there was that time someone forgot to lock the door ;) Anyhow, I really can't believe that by making it more forbidden, it just made it more tempting.
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Originally Posted by Jake Martinez
Sometime during the early 1900's, Democrats began leaning more leftist and Republicans further to the right.
Ok, you know more about history than I gave you credit for. My bad. I assumed you meant something recent. It is interesting when you think that, despite all their modern day equal rights/ ACLU flag waving, it was the Southern Democrats who supported slavery.
