If we were to teach a child not to steal cars - would we first teach them all the safe ways to steal cars without getting caught? How to open a car door without the alarm going off, how to avade the police, how to start the engine without the key etc... Of course we don't. We just say 'don't do it' and we expect the child not too. So why is it different for sex [ed]?
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"So why is it different for sex [ed]? "
I agree with fuzon. Sex Ed should be seen as sort of the equivalent of Driver's Ed, in that the point is to teach them what's expected and how to be safe in doing it.
To allow for equal time, here's a metaphor for abstinence-only education:
"Welcome to abstinence-only driving school, kids! Now it's been proven that seatbelts are not completely effective all the time, so the only way to avoid getting into a car accident is not to drive ever....class dismissed!"
kids are going to have sex with or without advice. It's the primary driving force in nature. Sex happens even if death follows. Sex especially happens with boys and girls because there are all those hormones washing around that they don't know how to control. 14 year old boys can get a hard-on just by sitting down!
So you can try to teach them abstinence (only good to avoid emotional entanglements), but you also teach them the consequences of their actions, and how to mitigate them.
Few people would advocate young-teen sex because it has emotional and other consequences, but we live in the real world: they will do it, so we must protect them.
@anti-nonsense: I did't realise that this twit originated in the UK. I thought we had a slightly more adult view of sex-ed. I was wrong: obviously!
I was taught how to balance a checkbook years before I was old enough to have one. I was taught how to manage money long before I moved out on my own. I was taught to drive well before I had my own car. And when the time came to do all those things, I was ready. That's the idea of education-to prepare children for adult life. It's the same with sex, we may not want our children having it now, but they need to be ready when the time comes. We want them to eventually start having sex responsibly, we don't want them ever stealing cars. So your analogy is an epic fail.
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[Ed]d China: 'People =/= Cars. Also, Alarm/EMS-linked engine immobilisers.'
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[Ed]d China: 'A certain British One didn't know the difference between a person and a car. He was once caught having sex with a Princess. He burned his dick in the exhaust pipe. '
(*In-between scenes burst of "Balaclava" by The Wideboys *) [/"Wheeler Dealers "]
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