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Sex Education: Do we need it?

posted in College Life | Apr 29, 2012 | 239 views

No matter when you went to middle or high school, we all had it. And oh, how awful was that class. Well, besides the fact that you didn't need to pay any attention.
I had my first "official birds and bees" talk in elementary school. As a class, we separated by gender to learn about sex and sex education. At the time, seeing as we couldn't possibly be anything but immature at that age, we all laughed and giggled at the mentions of vagina and penis. How many of you still giggled?
Thinking about that class now, it's such a mystery why we even had it... What could a non-creepy adult possibly need to teach an elementary school child about sex. Firstly, we didn't actually learn anything useful (I mean, what could possibly be useful to a sixth grader). Secondly, everybody already knew that babies came from women and not storks in the clouds. Finally, if a child were already sexually active at the age of...what like 11 or 12, then there's a whole different set of things that need to ...read more

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