Is it just me?....?!


Question: ...Has anyone noticed how many teenagers are asking questions here about their bodily functions? Did the school systems stop teaching health, and sex ed? They were both mandatory when I was a kid. I'm still scarred by visions of that std movie we had to sit through....If I was bleeding or leaking out of my hoo-hoo, I'd be asking my parents or doctor, not strangers on Yanswers...What do you people think?


Answers: ...Has anyone noticed how many teenagers are asking questions here about their bodily functions? Did the school systems stop teaching health, and sex ed? They were both mandatory when I was a kid. I'm still scarred by visions of that std movie we had to sit through....If I was bleeding or leaking out of my hoo-hoo, I'd be asking my parents or doctor, not strangers on Yanswers...What do you people think?

I can't figure out if you went to school before me or after me! I graduated high school in 1972, and we didn't even HAVE sex ed. Was that earlier or later???

Anyway, I think things today are just so much more open all the way around. Like in the 40's, gay men just married women and had families! There were hardly any mixed-race or even mixed religious marriages!

People, especially kids, didn't throw the F-word around like now! And can you imagine if they heard some of today's musical lyrics?!!

So don't you agree, that that is why kids ask questions about ANYTHING openly and freely? In some ways, I think it's good. It doesn't bother me a bit. :)

Now sex ed is "don't have sex, or you'll die," they don't actually teach you anything because then you might want to go try it out, or whatever.

So true. It's pretty obvious that "abstinence education" and skipping the spiel about the nuts and bolts of things leads to this lack of information. Public health studies show that it's a direct cause and effect: uninformed= unprotected sex and other mistakes. So sad, our tax dollars at work in the NIH and such =(

It pretty much depends on a couple of factors.
Your teacher-whether he/she will discuss it or bring in professionals to discuss the topics to the fullest.
Your school system-so many parents are complaining about what was/is being taught.

Too many parents don't want their children exposed to the topic but what they fail to realise is that their children know a whole lot more than they think. And what they know is miss-information. So it would be wise to let a teacher or health care profession discuss these topics with their children because they don't

Some of these children have seen things or know about things that I didn't know about until I went to college.

I gratuated in 74 and I never will forget the movie my teacher showed us on childbirth, I mean it was the movie doctors must see. I was sick I had to sit near an open window. It kept me from doing anything.

I hear what you're saying. This is one of the reasons I come on to answer questions. What seems obvious to me, many teens do not know.
peace





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