The worst thing I ever read about the issues about destroying sexual education is that it also leaves children unable to actually describe any abuse, because they don’t know what’s going on, what anything is called, and what is and isn’t a “good” touch.
I’m not saying Florida Republicans are in any way wanting that outcome, but you have to at least wonder why they’re so concerned about this.
That’s by design. Republicans are child molestation pros
What remains is a discussion of the benefits of abstinence and a cursory review of various sexually transmitted diseases.
Oh hey, that’s the sex ed we got in my school. Along with at least 4 pregnant girls I knew of under 17 in a very small rural school. The youngest was 13.
If the people “teaching” us ever connected those facts, it wasn’t apparent to me.
They want more teen pregnancies. Teen pregnancies tend to keep the mother poor, and subsequently the child. That keeps them desperate and more likely to be desperate enough to take shitty, low paying jobs, or potentially even doing slave labor in a for profit prison.
It also puts strain on the rest of the family.
Wasn’t AI supposed to make everyone unemployed by now? Something doesn’t add up.
I used to think, ‘oh, people against sex ed just don’t understand the good things it does! Later first pregnancies, protection from abuse, std prevention…if they understood, of course they’d be on board!’ Haha, oh younger me.
I still do think there are lots of people who come around, if some source they trust reaches them, but I was mistaken to think certain other people were actually against child abuse and teenage pregnancy.
30 … shit 40 years ago when I was a kid … sex education came from kids who were one or two years older than you … hustler magazine and porn videos.
I think I was about 20 before I properly understood what sex was and I had to learn it all on my own.
I vaguely remember the “sex ed” video our Catholic elementary school showed as an optional parent/kid evening event. The most direct it got about sex was a line drawing of a cow and a bull, then a dotted line arrow appeared from the bull’s crotch area to the cow’s, as the narrator said, “The male inserts his penis into the vagina of the female…” then stuff about the sperm fertilizing the egg. We were left completely clueless until we figured out the details by trial and error in high school.
The look on your faces when you found out that you didn’t even need cattle for it!
Rural school
Hayward, Calif - small suburban city next to Oakland
If you don’t teach your kids, life will, and experience isn’t nearly so patient nor kind.
Also if we could please stop obsessing with children and sex in these regressive states.
Florida
sexeducationHow long until they replace driving lessons with a page that says “not driving a car is the only 100% effective method to prevent car crashes”?
“Never touch your penis or angels will kill you.” - Stan Smith
TBF, if there ever was a state that belongs in the “Doesn’t know what sex is / Fucks” category…
I’ve hear about New Hampshire before, but where is this New Florida supposed to be?
The ocean, sooner or later…
