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[Swordsalmon]

Well, I was reading the news and came upon this horrible and disheartening article. Which led me to make this topic...I hope this is considered serious enough for a debate.

Horrible things such as this, I think could be prevented with more education on breeding in schools. However, there's been a controversy on whether this should be a course in schools. I have to support teaching young teens about pregnancy and prevention. Though this might increase the amount of young intercourse (Which I, morally think isn't right, but whatever), allowing these teens to know prevention could prevent more tragedies. If more promiscuous teens is the after-effect of lowering infantcide and abortions, I think it's worth it.

Sorry if this topic isn't "Debate"-worthy, but it's something I would like to discuss, considering how important it might become in the future.

[Rzx282]

First of all, I apologize if anything I post has already been said before.

I believe that Sex Ed should be more focused on, as it teaches about important bodily functions, and that both parents and schools should teach it. You can't expect not teaching people about this to have them avoid it; if anything, it draws them in (opinionated, yes, but based on personal observations). It should be something explained by the parents, however I understand that for some it might be awkward to explain something as intimate as sex to a child; however, if the school teaches about it, the instructors should be able to take the responsibility to teach the students.

And the education should be thorough and cover everything involved. My school didn't teach Sex Ed until the second year of high school. It was a two-day course, about an hour and a half each day, which briefly explained the female monthly cycle, and that was basically it. They showed pictures of the female reproductive system, and told us what each part was for in enough words for maybe a sentence or two each. Not once was anything other than the monthly cycle discussed. Not once was the male side even mentioned. Not once did they explain the side effects of engaging in sex. In reality, even though it was called Sex Ed, it was simply a short lecture on the female's bodily functions, which by that time everyone already knew about (I was the youngest in the class, at age fifteen, and I already knew about my own body functions).

My parents didn't even attempt to take the time to cover what the lecture didn't. What they did was basically say, "Sex is bad, don't do it." What little I learned from someone else was explained to me by my grandmother over the phone, and that was also more of a talk about growing up and bodily functions.

Everything I learned regarding the subject, I learned on my own, mainly through sites like Wikipedia (and before anyone says anything about it, yes, Wikipedia is an online "encyclopedia" that anyone can edit; however, they have many moderators on the site that prevent false information from being posted, and quickly work to reverse any false edits or page vandalism so that the pages display only correct information (and the information not fully verified is labeled as such)).

If the parents don't take the responsibility of raising and teaching their children, then the school should at least take some responsibility for teaching them. I've moved around a lot, and the high school I went to from sophomore year to graduation was the only one that even remotely offered a Sex Ed course. School should be a learning environment, and Sex Ed is no different. I personally believe that Sex Ed should be a mandatory class as early as fifth grade, and should be a required course every year or every other year; the information changes all the time, and it would also help ensure that students actually learn about it. It would also help to ensure that people are ready for everything involved should they chose to have sex, both the positive and the negative, before they engage in the activity.

Not to mention that when younger children do ask about sex-related situations, the parents seem to typically treat it like it's a taboo subject, as Reyo said. The media is allowed to show violent scenes (such as mutilation, torture, ect) and it simply be brushed off as "just another show"; however, the moment something sexual comes up, it's immediately banned from the public. And when it's not banned, it's usually so unrealistically depicted that it becomes more of a grotesque horror scene than anything else. In the instances where it's not banned or unrealistically depicted, the book/show/movie/game is rated so high that only someone eighteen and older can see it.

Everyone says it's to "protect the children". But how is preventing Sex Education protecting them? Teach, and they'll learn and understand, and be more responsible in their decisions; prevent, and they'll be curious and experiment with it (opinionated, yes, but based on personal observations).


And I'm going to stop there, before I end up writing an essay.