Don't Have Sex Because You Will Get Pregnant...And Die

by **Basseemia** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 6:18 pm

In the 2004 movie Mean Girls, one of the characters Coach Carr is a health teacher. He tells the students during the sex education unit "Don't have sex or you will get pregnant...and die". It has become a lot less common but it still happens, abstinence being taught in school. Does NSG think this should stop, continue, or even become more popular in the public schooling system.

Should abstinence be taught in sex education over ways of contraception in public schools? Should a sex education class be mandatory in schools? If so, at what age/grade?

Personally, I believe it should not be taught in schools at all. Safe sex needs to be taught in mandatory sex education classes in the 8th grade.

What does NSG think?

by **Napkiraly** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 6:21 pm

Teach safe sex and make it mandatory. As for the grade well we started sex ed at grade 5.. But I think that was more for understanding and getting used to everything first. Safe sex practices started in around grade 7 or 8. So 14-15.

by **Untaroicht** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 6:24 pm

Don't teach sex ed in schools at all, leave it to the parents to educate them the way their moral code teaches.

by **Silent Majority** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 6:24 pm

There is a lot of evidence which suggests that abstinence-only sex education doesn't work. Additionally, focus on abstinence is oftentimes done with the thinly veiled intent of reinforcing the idea that there is something morally degenerate about sexuality, which is quite frankly moronic and not something we should promote.

by **Geilinor** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 6:24 pm

Untaroicht wrote:Don't teach sex ed in schools at all, leave it to the parents to educate them the way their moral code teaches.

The government has an interest in preventing STDs. A big one.

by **Seaxeland** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 6:24 pm

Sexual education should be reserved for 13+ students, and sex between anyone under the age of 18, consensual or not, should be illegal.

by **Pandeeria** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 6:25 pm

Preaching abstinence doesn't work forever.

Teach the children how to have safe sex, however tell them that even then there is a tiny chance of getting pregnant, and still getting STD's. In addition, promote abstinence as the "best way to go" however if children want to make the choice of having sex, still teach them about safe sex and supply free contraceptives.

by **Silent Majority** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 6:25 pm

sex between anyone under the age of 18, consensual or not, should be illegal.

Dare I ask, why?

by **Pandeeria** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 6:26 pm

Untaroicht wrote:Don't teach sex ed in schools at all, leave it to the parents to educate them the way their moral code teaches.

In a serious topic like this, I don't usually use Smilies, but I had to.

That's absolutely an awful idea.

by **Untaroicht** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 6:26 pm

Geilinor wrote:
Untaroicht wrote:Don't teach sex ed in schools at all, leave it to the parents to educate them the way their moral code teaches.

The government has an interest in preventing STDs. A big one.

Leave that to the CDC, not the education system to shove it down our kid's throats.

by **New haven america** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 6:27 pm

Make sex ed mandatory in schools, teach students about safe sex and how things like condoms and birth control work.

by **Lolloh** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 6:27 pm

I'm always annoyed with people shouting "Abstinacne or u will die frm sex!!!" However, I think it's reasonable to warn people of the dangers and explain methods to prevent it. Either that, or castrate everyone.

Not a bad idea, actually.

by **Pandeeria** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 6:27 pm

Untaroicht wrote:
Geilinor wrote:The government has an interest in preventing STDs. A big one.

Leave that to the CDC, not the education system to shove it down our kid's throats.

Why the CDC?

Sex has other complications other then disease, like pregnancy.

by **The New World Oceania** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 6:27 pm

Seaxeland wrote:Sexual education should be reserved for 13+ students, and sex between anyone under the age of 18, consensual or not, should be illegal.

Says Sexland.

by **Geilinor** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 6:28 pm

Untaroicht wrote:
Geilinor wrote:The government has an interest in preventing STDs. A big one.

Leave that to the CDC, not the education system to shove it down our kid's throats.

Nobody is being forced to use contraception, they are simply being told about it.

by **New haven america** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 6:28 pm

Untaroicht wrote:
Geilinor wrote:The government has an interest in preventing STDs. A big one.

Leave that to the CDC, not the education system to shove it down our kid's throats.

Or we could just make sex ed mandatory and parents that don't agree... well, sucks to be them.

by **Untaroicht** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 6:28 pm

Pandeeria wrote:
Untaroicht wrote:
Leave that to the CDC, not the education system to shove it down our kid's throats.

Why the CDC?

Sex has other complications other then disease, like pregnancy.

Leave the lessons about pregnancy to the parents--schools are pitiful at teaching safe sex.

by **Gauthier** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 6:29 pm

"How come Mom didn't die?"

by **New haven america** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 6:29 pm

Seaxeland wrote:Sexual education should be reserved for 13+ students, and sex between anyone under the age of 18, consensual or not, should be illegal.

No.

by **The Serbian Empire** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 6:30 pm

Pandeeria wrote:Preaching abstinence doesn't work forever.

Teach the children how to have safe sex, however tell them that even then there is a tiny chance of getting pregnant, and still getting STD's. In addition, promote abstinence as the "best way to go" however if children want to make the choice of having sex, still teach them about safe sex and supply free contraceptives.

Tiny chance? It's more than tiny. If one has unprotected sex at 16 for a year assuming sex once a week, there's almost a guarantee of pregnancy.

by **Brissia** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 6:30 pm

Is there even a point of saying anything for everyone to already know my opinion?

by **New haven america** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 6:30 pm

Untaroicht wrote:
Pandeeria wrote:
Why the CDC?

Sex has other complications other then disease, like pregnancy.

Leave the lessons about pregnancy to the parents--schools are pitiful at teaching safe sex.

Really? Cause I remember that my middle school taught the subject very well.(And parent's suck at teaching things like that)

by **Pandeeria** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 6:30 pm

Untaroicht wrote:
Pandeeria wrote:
Why the CDC?

Sex has other complications other then disease, like pregnancy.

Leave the lessons about pregnancy to the parents--schools are pitiful at teaching safe sex.

Parents won't be any better. Especially if all they preach is abstinence, and if they fill child's mind with bullshit.

by **Silent Majority** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 6:31 pm

Untaroicht wrote:
Pandeeria wrote:
Why the CDC?

Sex has other complications other then disease, like pregnancy.

Leave the lessons about pregnancy to the parents--schools are pitiful at teaching safe sex.

Only in so far as that there are schools without comprehensive sexual education programs

by **Geilinor** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 6:31 pm

Untaroicht wrote:
Pandeeria wrote:
Why the CDC?

Sex has other complications other then disease, like pregnancy.

schools are pitiful at teaching safe sex.

What makes you think so? They can be good at if given the funding and teachers to do it.

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