(September 9, 2015 at 10:59 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote:(September 9, 2015 at 10:26 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: I always find resistance to sex education puzzling. My Southern Baptist mother did not object to me specifically taking an optional sex ed class when I was young, nor did she object to the school-wide programs in sex education.
Teaching people about birth control and so forth is not the same as telling them to go have sex. It seems, though, that morons do not understand that.
It is amazing that people seem to have the idea that keeping people ignorant about sex will keep them from having sex. As if your dog needs a class in sex education in order to figure out how to have sex!
Honestly, it seems that one must be a total moron to be opposed to sex education. There really seems to be no other explanation.
My mother, a devout Southern Baptist fundamentalist, not only refused to sign my permission form in the 6th grade (I was eleven) for me to attend the SexEd class with the rest of my grade, she personally took the form in to the Principle of the school to ensure that I would be given other duties during the time (two hours every Wednesday) the rest of the kids were in the auditorium learning about SexEd.
Unfortunately for my mother, this backfired, as I was immediately teased for what I did not know by the other children, and thus requested (and got) permission to go next door to the Public Library during my two-hour session for a "study hall" time, during which I would look up books on human sexuality. While the other kids were watching "Fuzzy Bunny Gets Hair in New Places" videos (Simpsons joke), I was reading Dr.Ruth, books about Kinsey and Masters & Johnson, etc.
Do you have any idea what your mother's reasoning was?
My mother was a devout Southern Baptist fundamentalist, and she did not want me having sex before marriage, which she regarded as sinful (since your mother was a devout Southern Baptist fundamentalist, I will assume that you are aware of the existence of relevant passages in the Bible and not bother with any of that presently). But she did not want me to be an ignorant fool and know nothing about sex. And she understood that knowledge about something is not the same as doing that something. So she had absolutely no problems with me having sex education in school.
Why did your mother object to you having sex education?
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
