Should schools have sex-ed? Yes or No ? Give me your opinions :] (BTW this should probably be in Debate but yea..)

I never really thought about it.
I guess it's better to have it then not to have it.



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I'm a junior, and i've never had any types of sex ed. So I dont know.

I think there should be some type of sex ed, to teach students saftey and what not.

...its like learning to crash the car before you know how to drive it.

at least thats how it was for me.

....or how not to crash the car?

Haha, the first time I had sex-ed was in 4th grade or 5th grade, and I had NO IDEA what they were talking about. Then in middle school I had a muchhhh better idea, but to the point: yes, it's a good idea. I'm an advocate for abstinence, but I know that most other people believe in pre-marital sex, which is fine for them, so I'm glad that before they do anything, they at least know what's safe.

yes but at the appropriate age. i dunno about 6th grade - when i had it - but i think it should be like 8th grade or 9th cause i guess your hormones tend to kick in more.

I was supposed to have Health in 8th grade, but I had band the whole time so there was no time in my schedule.

To pass high school in NYC, you have to at least earn one credit for health, meaning that you have to pass at least one term of health class.

It should be required because people have to know. They can't just go out there having unprotected sex.

You know... I had a year of sex ed in sixth grade... We had to make models of the penis and the vagina... AND make a game on them. Someone made a ring toss out of breasts. It was retarded. They also told us to use plastic wrap if condoms weren't available >.<

And this was in sixth grade, mind you.

^ Oh my God. Thats weird. And in 6th grade??

I had very basic health classes in 5th and 6th grade in public school. I've been in private school ever since, and I've had NO classes on it since. I'm a Junior by the way. Everything I know, I know from when I was like 10. I dont want to even begin to imagine what I dont know.

And thats why I think students should be educated on it in middle/high school. Not to actually learn "how" to do it, but how to stay safe.

when i used to take it as a part of health class in high/middle school, I used to find it boring.... Many kids already know a lot about sex, but then again, many are ignorant with the consequences. So to answer to the question about having Sex-ed in schools, well I believe that it is good--- only if they teach abstinence along with it.

Whether or not Sex Ed is taught in school, teens are going to have sex. I think we should just face the reality and at least teach teens how to put on a condom, how to get birth control, the risks of getting STDs or pregnant, etc. Plus, it'll be good for teens to know that stuff for the future when they are ready to have sex.

And while I laughed through Sex Ed with everyone else, I'll be quite honest that I'm happy I'm educated with it. Keep Sex Ed!

Oh, and btw, as to the age it should be taught: teens are losing their virginity at younger ages these days (sad, but true). Seventh or eighth grade sounds good to me.

I think it's defintiely a good thing to have sex ed. but im not sure about having it in 6th grade! thats kinda odd. i didnt have it until highschool

we started at 6th grade briefly going into sex ed from 5th and part of 6th they covered puberty and then the basic information about sex, and i think that it is good because they should be informed.. esp look at the upcoming generation they are already starting.. so might as well teach them about it and the consequences. its better that they know.

think about sexual assault, kids as young as 3 months old are getting assaulted both men and women, they should know what sex really is and what is right and wrong, and what they can do to help themselves if they get sexually abused constantly or just even once. or not at all knowing is better than being innocent. kids these days are not that innocent as the way they were before back in the day when MTV or even television existed. you kno?

Oh. You were there back in the old days?

HAHAHAHAHA! I'm starting Sex-Ed next week! I think it's perfectly fine when you're at a reasonable age. I'm in 8th grade, so I think it's okay.

You gotta learn about it sometime.



holy crap. that's really funky!

Lol that is funny ....... I had to take it last year........ But i think they should have it because you don't know what kids do these days.......lol

I just read an article on BBC news on this.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6062670.stm

I agree with the article, kids should be taught sooner. If they're taught too late.. well, nothing good is going to come out of that.
And the article also mentions that kids are starting puberty sooner.

First time I had sex ed was in 5th grade, but the separated girls and guys. Girls talked about periods and tampons/pads, guys talked about erections? I don't know. I guess that was semi-helpful so girls don't think we're bleeding to death? Haha!

Second time was in 7th grade, which was co-ed & we cover the general aspects of sex like the consequences and stuff like that, but it was superficial. We mostly just watched videos. I remember this one video of two, neon colored stick figures that danced around the screen and got into suggestive positions. LOL! And we watched the sperm traveling up the vaginal passage (wonder how they got that shot?), and at the end, we watched this birth video. This birth video was very graphic, mind you. You see the women all grunting and panting and in pain, then all of a sudden, it just suddenly zooms down into her va-jay-jay and we're like, "omfg! this is porn at its worse!" i am so scarred for life.

Third time was in 10th grade, obviously co-ed. It's part of the health unit at my school, which is a required class to graduate. There's only one unit on sex/stds/pregnancy and it's obviously more in depth. Plus, the health teachers at my school are really cool. They're fine with immaturity sometimes & they teach in a way that is informative, not bias. I think that's really important in sex ed. Kids should be taught about sex, not taught to be against it. The more you tell a teenager, "don't do this", the more they'll want to try it. You know what I mean? And plus, I just absolutely hate it when people shove their opinions in my face. Thanks, but I have a brain of my own & I'll decide my stance.

Sex ed should not be allowed in schools. Yeah, it gives kids an idea about sex, but trust me... I never had sex ed and I know what sex is. You don't need a school to tell you about things. It's really your parents responsibilities to tell you these types of things.

Morals tend to drop when people are taught that certain things are less than they actually are. Sex, I'm sure is fun. I can't say. I feel that it's a maturity issue. I really don't feel like people, especially teens, know the consequences of sex. Sex outside of marriage is something that shouldn't be taken lightly because it really can ruin people's relationships with others.

Everybody I know that has had sex before marriage has either regretted it or has had messed up situations because of it.

According to that person that said that they had to make models of a penis and vagina, it sounded like the teachers were making a mockery of sex. It's ridiculous. People, in my opinion, just aren't mature enough to have sex before marriage and I think sex ed ruins it.

Yeah, but not all parents are like that. My parents never talked to me about it & I know parents that purposely shun their kids from sex education. This one parent wanted her kid out of sex ed, thinking it was a way to protect her child by not exposing her to "sex". What are you really doing by shielding kids from sex? They need to know what it is and the consequences behind their actions. STDs, like HIV, that leads to AIDS are the causes of thousands of deaths each year. Not to mention, there are certain types of cancer linked to STDs. These STDs can be prevented. But do all teenagers know that? Do all teenagers know the signs of STDs and the consequences they have to live with by acquiring STDs? No, they don't. If there is a way to prevent life-threatening diseases, personally, I would like to know.

You said that you feel teens don't really know the consequences of sex, and I totally agree with you. So shouldn't they be educated in school? Parents are not always willing to have "the talk" with kids. Should the kids pay for the parent's mistake in not telling him/her about the consequences of sex? No.

It seems like a solution for schools to offer sex ed. There are some schools that just teach abstinence. I think that is wrong. The more teens are told "not to do something", the more curious they are. I think that we should be educated from a non-bias viewpoint so we are allowed to make a decision independently, but know the consequences of our actions.

yeah at the appropriate age and if they don't just teatch absidence. i hate it when they only teach that its so stupid because kids are going to do it anyways so why not make sure they are safe when they do it?

Sex ed was actually more helpful than it seemed. I think we should have sex education. Who gives a shit if it encourages sex, people are going to do it anyways, especially in high school, so why not give them a little warning?

AHH, I SAW THAT VIDEO IN 5TH GRADE TOO!
i kindof forgot what the video said about guys. it just said something about growning hair and growning longer penises. LOL

we had to watch both, boy and girl, videos even though we were split up. i guess it was pretty helpful. i mean, if you didn't have sex-ed, and blood was coming out as you were peeing, you'd freak you out, right?

i think there should be sex ed. i started sex ed when i was in 6th grade, didn't work for some people in my grade.. because they ended up getting pregnant and dropping out of school. but i think that kids should know, plus kids now a days are having sex at much younger ages. they should have knowlege of the consequences of sex such as pregnancy and STDS. my parents didn't have sex ed when they went to school and so they had to learn on their own but they do support sex ed in school so that we, the upcoming generation, have knowlege of such an issue. knowing what you can do about it, if you do get pregnant or how to prevent stds, etc.

sex ed is good because alot of parents dont like talking to their kids about that stuff, but it does plant sex into some kids' minds that werent even thinking about it before, and then they want to expeirement, then they wind up pregnant.

Yes.

Me, myself I had took health ed and it had helped me a lot and teached me how my body functions.

Like some of you guys said if a girl never learn about period then she would think shes bleeding to death.

We have sex ed as a part of Health class, and I think that all schools should have it. Abstinence-only programs are very prude and just don't work. You can't tell someone not to do something without explaining why. It's better to educate them first and let them make the decision of whether or not to do it by themselves.

1 think they should because there are so many promiscuous girls out there and the number is getting younger and younger. They need to know all the consequences other than use a condom.

i agree with what ateh said. 5th grade and up should all have sex ed classes but then again, i think that 5th graders are too immature to probably handle talking about their privates which i dont get why they laugh over, since they have them. -shrug-

I had sex-ed in 5th grade, and it made absolutely no sense to me at all.
Had it again 7th grade, coherent message this time. Again in 8th, a little more sense being made.
Haven't had it since, sophomore now.

Now:

As has been stated, teens will have sex with or without sex-ed. What sex-ed changes is that the teens will be less likely to do stupid things like unprotected sex.

And honestly, if I were a parent, I would choose for my kids to have protected premarital sex before recreational drug use any day...

I think's it's extremely necessary. Obviously, kids are going to have sex no matter how much adults preach that they shouldn't. Because there's really no stopping it, they should atleast know how everything works and what body parts they have and what results could happen.

It's frightening how little people know about this stuff... I recently moved, and at my old school, sex ed started in 4th grade, and I had it every year until my junior year when I transferred. At the school I'm at now, they don't teach sex ed, and they took the material out of the biology classes where they used to learn it. I took an anatomy course this past semester, and that is the only way they will get education in that subject in school, since no other class will teach it. PATHETIC.

i think that thee should be sex-ed. however i dont agree with them teaching about sex being a no-no before marriage. just like you cant preach about religion in school you shouldent be able to preach about abstinence. beacause abstinence is a choice just like abortion is not something you have to do.

besides you can save it for marrige but it still wont protect you from STDs if your lover isnt honest
nor will it prevent you from getting less pregnant beacuse a condom can always break or the guy can slip.
there are plenty of married women who have unplanned births so they either keep it,terminate it,or give it up for adoption.
now i bet the little abstinence nazis didnt tell you that

sex-ed needs to teach the emotions that go along with it as sex is not about baby making and penis in vagina.they need to talk about how not everyone will have sex with a person jsut beacuse they love you. sometimes there are bad people who will want you just for the pleasure.now thats not something you should really get into with 5th and 6th graders but it should be brought up when you get older.
the onlytime someone ever talked to me about that was in my freshman year and guess what he was fired!

gah i could rant about this all day.

Personally, i think sex ed just encourages it.
Like when you tell kids not to touch this or something, they'll want to touch it. Same idea.

But yeah. It is a choice. So nobody should force us.
And why bother to teach it in elementary school? Everyone just gets grossed out. all we cared about back then was what team we were on for kickball, seriously

I think everyone should take it. Its better than having thembe oblivious to it.

Sex Education isn't a bad idea, however the problem seems to reside in lacking a unified criterium as for what should it teach to kids and how.

Personally, I do think sex education should focus on the physical aspects of sexual life, including anatomical knowldege, prevention tips, etc... . I understand a sex ed class as a more technical oriented teaching than anything else; hence why I would leave moral/ethical teachings about sexual life outside of it. Or at least as separate it as it is subjectively possible, anyways.

I took Sex-Ed in 7th grade. I think we should know about sex because it prepares us for the future. But I think they shouldn't teach it so soon, like in Elementary School.

I've never actually taken a Sex Education class because it's not offered at my school nor is it offered in my district. And I think that it should be offered because I think everyone needs to be informed about sex. There's alot to know. And even if we had it in high school, people wouldn't take it seriously. Every time they heard the word vagina or penis they'd like freak out or snicker and giggle.

That depends on your sex education program... For instance, in Texas the Abstinence Only program is favored... hence very high teen pregnancy rates.
Basically, if anyone asked a question, the response would be, "Just say no!"
I think sex education is very important. Maybe it'll make people more curious, but it's human nature to be curious. If people are fully informed, they should hopefully be able to make a fully informed decision. By not having sex education, you're throwing kids into this sex-obsessed world without any real knowledge of contraceptions or potential risks.

yes. now that these kids are having sex in their late pre teen/early teen ages..they need to know eactly what theyre doing.

Why not, knowledge is power.

I honestly think that sex-ed is good. At least kids would know about having protected sex. I had it in 5th grade, and it educated me alot. No, it didn't encourage me to have sex, really, but I also think that it should be educated at an appropriate age where people can not laugh about it, and to think it's funny. [Example: I was actually laughing when I was being taught this.] An appropriate age would be... maybe... 7th-8th grade. I'm pretty sure that some people lost their virginity earlier than that, but it's around that age where I think that people are mature enough to handle sex-ed.

If you have the opportunity to get educated about sex, I think you should take it. It would give you ALOT of information, and answer all your questions about sex. So, I think that sex-ed should be taught in every school and be allowed in every district. Everyone deserves to learn about it, because one day, they might actually have sex. :) Remember, use a condom if you dont want a baby!
^ I also agree with Kevin. :)

Sex ed is alot like health ed when it comes to discussing the types of STD's and infections that can happen to unsafe sex. I think Sex ed should be an option to learn more about your body and the body of the females as well as to learn more about the risks that can happen. I took sex ed in 5th grade and health ed in 11th grade I think both courses are necessary because of the different amounts of knowledge you can learn from. Sex ed is more about your body, while Health ed discusses issues about sex that help you make better decisions on what you should and shouldn't do.

it should be stressed upon in middle school

well kids are hitting puberty younger, so they'll want to have sex younger. When I was in school, parents had the option to take their kids out of the sex ed class, but I think it's good to have the class there becuase a lot of parents want to teach their kids about dangers, safety, and whatnot, but don't have the knowledge or are embarassed to bring it up.

In university, they pretty much endorse having sex. But they do it in a way that makes you want to have 'safe sex' they pretty much throw condoms at you, and during frosh there's a seminar on it. IT's kind of funny how there's a condom in the frosh kit.

I do think sex ed is necessary but to a certain age group. If they are too young to understand then no...but if it's like middle school or even grade school then yes, it should be taught.

i think its good because some kids need to get answers on why their bodies are changing aka puberty. Even tho i didnt really understand it in like 5th grade i was to busy reading harry potter...lol

No. I feel it's up to the parents to tell their children about sex, not schools. Seriously. It's not like kids don't know what it is. I knew since I was five. I didn't need any help from my parents or a school. It's not that hard to understand it. It's unnecessary to have it in schools.



If parents don't like talking about it, then screw them. It's their responsibility. They should grow some balls and tell their kids about it. Who cares if there is an awkward moment. Seriously. It pisses me off when parents neglect to take care of their children by not giving them advice where it's needed.

My church had a whole month of talking about sex. Seriously. Like anyone in the room didn't know what he was talking about. It's ridiculous. I left after that cause I'm not having a church tell me about sex.

I agree. Parents do need to talk to there children. If they don't want to then they shouldn't be having kids in the first place...you need to take responsibility.