07-15-2011, 05:33 PM
I started sex education in year five and frankly was bemused by it. I don't see it as a moral issue but an issue of common sense. What do primary school kids care about intercourse and love? In my opinion the ideal time for such lessons to be taught is around the start of high school, as puberty is setting in. I think it's reckless of schools not to teach about gay alongside heterosexual sex. I was terrified of my sexuality for a period in my adolescence because of my ignorance about it. All I knew was vague horror stories about AIDs and my father equating it with perversion. It would have been nice if someone had explained to me that gay sex doesn't always end in painful, humiliating death.
Also, I think the problem is not just with what age but how sex education should be taught. When I was in high school they gave us wordsearches with words like "penis" and "vagina" hidden in the puzzle. What that was supposed to accomplish I have no idea.
Also, I think the problem is not just with what age but how sex education should be taught. When I was in high school they gave us wordsearches with words like "penis" and "vagina" hidden in the puzzle. What that was supposed to accomplish I have no idea.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe