. . . can also be used for peeingFollow

Is it 15 or 16? Regardless... its part of the curriculum so No to pulling the child out. I would though, like to know @ what age they will be teaching it.

I said "No" on the basis that it's human biology and there's little difference in my mind between teaching how the uterus works and teaching how the liver works. For that matter, I see no issue with presenting factual statistical information on the success rate of contraceptives. It's entirely possible that a program may include facets I think should be optional but, as a whole, I don't see where it should differ from teaching that squirrels are related to mice or that the earth's crust is up to 25 miles thick.

Yeah but you're biased since the 6-year old Joph Jr came home from school and asked you "Daddy, why do some people prefer rimming to fisting?"

Relationships and Respect @ 5 sounds great to me, puberty @ 7 seems a little early. Contraceptive and STDs @ 11 seems close enough, I was thinking ~12 or 13.

I love my parents dearly, and they taught me a lot, but when I started my period I was horrified, and we never, ever discussed sex. I went to planned parenthood for my first gynecological exam and birth control prescription alone, and really had no understanding of stds before I began having sex. Maybe that's why I ended up with a degree in human sexuality and work with various comprehensive sex ed organizations, haha: I'm making up for lost time.

While I took the initiative and researched these things for myself when I needed to as a teenager, most don't...they rely on the misinformation passed along through the telephone game and I would vastly prefer they get SOME sort of comprehensive sex education even if it's the sterilized and overly morally upright version the schools offer.

Nexa

And the clap.

See - THIS is why I love the assylum.

On a related note. . .

Q: How can you tell when your sister has started menstruating?
A: Your dad's diCk tastes of blood

But yes to telling them how to do so, amirite?

everyone knows that pulling out is an ineffective method whether it is trying to prevent kids from learning about sex or trying to prevent them from existing.

Teens are never "innocent" in regards to sex, they can only be ignorant.

Wouldn't the dirty ragheads "Mohammedists" prefer that these 15-18 year olds learn about sex the old fashioned way, namely having been married for five or six years already? (Well, at least the girls.)

It's better to know about things coming up, than learn about them in the middle of it. My breasts started growing when I was 8. I had breasts for a couple of years in Primary school, probably what you call "Grade school". I can't remember if I had them in Grade 4, but I definitely had them in Grade 5 and 6. They were very pointy, and in hindsight it would have been a lot better for how I "fit in" socially if someone had clued me in to one of the roles of bras with respect to breasts, to round off their profile.

The youngest parents I know of were 8 and 9. They had fun experimenting in a bath, and definitely could have done with some better sex ed.

After reading the sex ed texts on my parent's shelves, and adult books from the age of 9, and the sex ed classes through public school, I knew ALL about the whole vanilla thing. Except for the smell. When I finally lost my virginity I was completely unprepared for the smell of *****. I know people say that the male eating different foods makes it taste/smell differently. But to me, all my partner's ***** has smelt of arsnic and chlorine, which funnily enough, is also exactly the same smell as chestnut flowers.

Boy that was a funny few months, walking past that chestnut tree in bloom.