(September 10, 2015 at 12:12 am)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote:(September 9, 2015 at 11:19 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: Do you have any idea what your mother's reasoning was?
Why did your mother object to you having sex education?
Our church heavily emphasized the concept of "the World versus Christians", and she felt that it wasn't the place of the school (secular government) to teach me about sex, but that it was something I needed to learn via the Church's teachings only.
Similarly, I grew up without any form of TV broadcast/cable, even though we had a television set and VCR, because an evangelist had told them, quote, "Television is Satan's way of sneaking into your home". The VCR setup let them control 100% of what we watched, usually via tapes checked out from our public library (she's a theatre professor, so lots of Broadway and classic movies) and from our church library (Christian videos). Today, I often joke that it's kind of amazing I turned out straight, given the sheer volume of Broadway musicals to which I was subjected as a child.
That still does not really explain it. I was taught the concept of "the World versus Christians" also. My mother did not tightly control the TV we watched, but she did control it some. Of course, TV was pretty tame the many years ago when I was young, but she still would not let us watch whatever we wanted.
As for the church's teachings, what church teaches sex education? They often tell you not to have sex before marriage, and not to have homosexual sex ever, but they do not usually teach about venereal diseases and so forth. Did yours? My mother had no objection to me learning about all of the diseases and how one could get them. And about the fact that sex can lead to pregnancy, and she did not want me to believe any of the nonsense that I was shocked to learn other people believed (e.g., "you can't get pregnant the first time you have sex" and other such ridiculous drivel; I was amazed to learn from my sex ed class in school that people actually believed that).
Did your mother want you to be unaware of the venereal diseases that you could get having sex? Did she want you to believe nonsense, like that you cannot get a girl pregnant the first time you have sex? Or did she teach you these things herself?
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
