RE: Christianity and Masturbation
April 22, 2015 at 7:57 am
(This post was last modified: April 22, 2015 at 8:03 am by Pyrrho.)
(April 22, 2015 at 5:01 am)Judi Lynn Wrote: ...
And apparently, from what she's told me, the kids in school regularly discuss sex among their groups of friends. ...
I remember in grade school that jokes about sex were very popular. I have not heard so many dirty jokes since growing up.
What was striking to me was learning in a sex education class in high school all of the misinformation people believed. Such as, the nonsense that one could not get pregnant the first time one had sex. I don't know why anyone would believe such a fool story, given that pregnancy has to do with a sperm cell merging with an egg cell and becoming attached to the woman (uterus, except in problem cases), but, apparently, it was a common myth that people believed.
(April 22, 2015 at 5:04 am)robvalue Wrote: I'm all for proper sex education. In England we are super prudish, sex ed doesn't start until 13 and is pretty awkward. My parents taught me absolutely nothing at all about this. I was frigging hopeless and just picked up stuff very slowly from those around me, not the best way to learn. I imagine kids these days picking up their "education" from the internet. They're gonna most likely be looking at all kinds of sexual stuff online, probably from a fairly young age, so I think education at home and at school is important so they understand what they are seeing.
Our prudish nature doesn't work, we have one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in Europe I think.
In the U.S., some states have adopted an "abstinence only" sex education system, and those states generally (if not all) have the highest rates of teen pregnancies.
This is one of the really stupid things about some religionist conservative nut jobs. If they don't want unwed mothers and teen pregnancy and abortions, they should favor a good sex education program, because such things are reduced by a good sex education program. It isn't the sex education that motivates people to have sex; people have hormones for that. One must be really stupid to not realize that sex education isn't the cause of sexual desire.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
