Do you think sex education at school has helped you?

[jakeandrew15]

Yes and no for me. Regarding puberty, I had no idea what happens (apart from rumours at school when young and older brother). Contraception, it helped alot teaching you how to properly wear a condom and what to do if you have un-protected sex. I personally in the near future don't want to have sex, so would of appreciated better puberty information. Or do you see that this is your parents job to educate their children?. Discuss.

[Giles]

I'm thinking Rotw, not sure though.

It didn't really help me at all. I knew most of it all anyway.

[Nelson]

Not really.. we didnt learn much

[strata8]

Our school only really taught us about puberty... I learnt most of the other stuff myself :P

[gone]

Sorta kinda, I learnt most from the net, and of course good old vt ;)

[Botchy]

Not much it did a bit but i got most from web and older friends

[Severus Snape]

Not at all. By freshman year I was already two years into puberty, we didn't learn about contraception at all, and I was forced to turn t the internet for answers long before I receievd any formal sex education.

[TheFame]

No, not really. The church S.E. was completely useless and i had to disagree in public when they said its wrong to be gay -_-

If i was ever to need advice, this site is the first place i would go

[BlackBetty]

We just learned about abstinence. Abstinence has nothing to do with puberty. I would say it didn't help me.

It was a abstinece based ciriculm made by the state.

[Antares]

Not one bit, probably the most useless program in schools today.
I learned more from friends than from sex ed. And I have had it taught to me twice. Its ridiculous.

[BlackBetty]

Not one bit, probably the most useless program in schools today.
I learned more from friends than from sex ed. And I have had it taught to me twice. Its ridiculous.

That is how i feel about it. Friends are better than school.:eek:

[Juan Valdez]

It has never helped me. Sincerely, this blog is more usefull.

[NMon]

sex ed =/= boys puberty

[Kev Kev]

we dont even have it really ha

[jay123]

yeah but they could do more

[Art_dude]

The private school I went to for 6th grade gave a general puberty class which I felt clarified things greatly. The teacher mostly discussed the biological reasons why puberty happens and what is involved.

The rest of middle school I was required to take 'health classes' each year. 7th grade and 8th grade were mostly concerned about explaining drugs and the negative effects on health, etc. Wasn't anything groundbreaking but it was good to have reinforcement. Towards 8th grade however they did briefly discuss masturbation and sex. I wouldn't say it 'helped me' but it definitely gave me a better understanding of things, and I'm glad I learned all I needed to know about STD's etc.

I don't see why people feel they are useless programs. I would much rather live in a world where there was education about safe sex, drugs, puberty etc, than a world that didn't have those programs. They are meant to help.

[Iron Man]

my school didnt really get a sex ed. it was apart of health for like 1 or 2 classes

[benjabubble]

Yes and no. I didn't really learn anything new in class, however it did get me to start looking things up online more (which is how I found VT, yay!).

[woody92]

Well If I am honest... no I dont think it helped, maybe because I have always talked to my parents about it, my family are very very close so I know that I can tell them anything, anything at all and I know they will help me through what ever problems etc I have. The same with sex and stuff like that, We have talked about sex in my family since the age of about 8 or 9, this isnt because my parents are "weird" or anything like that. It is because we are very open family and very close as I said above. And I think that it has worked better talking to my parents about it from a young age, than talking it (well not even talking about it lol) with school at the age of about 11, 12 or 13.

So no I dont think that it helped much, but that is just my opinion.:D

[jawohl]

I didn't learn anything from it at all.

[Pioneer92]

Not really, I learned most of it from friends

[octomania]

no. not at all.

[venom832]

Not really. They just talk about studs during an assembly

[Alex17]

All I have to say is that the school really didn't teach me much at all. It's amazing what you can learn on the Internet nowadays. Like this website. Lol.

[CestDan]

Naaa... It doesn't. We didn't mean it so much

[Silent]

Not really...

[Hollywood]

it really didnt help me, i just kind of did it b/c it got me out of math for a week :D
i pretty much learned everything here

[Hollister17]

I'm thinking Rotw, not sure though.

It didn't really help me at all. I knew most of it all anyway.

haha who doesnt :)

[liverpoolfc]

its just revising eveythin i know

[swj90]

parents got me a book prior to even getting any sex education classes they never talked to me about it, but i never really asked questions... always felt kinda weird about asking. so sex class never taught me anything i didn't already know

[YourFriend]

Nah, it didn't really help me. I knew most of it before anyway. And in our school there isn't really something you could call sex education.

[Scarface]

Not In the slightest. Life was a better teacher then any class.

[josh93]

i got from my school and my older bro which my parents told him to talk to me about it he is 10 years older than me. I even got extra stuff from school and the web and even some from VT. so it help a little.

[Patchy]

Moved to ROTW, it ain't a puberty question, more general sexual education.

It opened my mind to giving people sexual education however from VT P101 I have learnt much more.

[2D]

Never had it and what do you know. I'm fine.

[ShatteredWings]

hahahahahahahaha....

No.

Sex ed in 10th grade is way too late


I also agree with the statement "I learned more from p101 on here"

[lovebug]

No. I already knew most of it. I think it was a waste of time, and it was awkward.

[Whisper]

They do it WAY to late
and for WAY to brief a time
and its WAY to restricted

[Aves]

P101 taught me more. so no

[Quick_Sylver]

I learned the puberty basics when I was 8 from school, then got the talk that summer due to the fact that I discovered something of my mother's. v_v

So, yes and no. In a way it prepared me, in another, it seems pointless.

[Sugaree]

Well, it helped me but I learned more on everything from a book my father gave me. The classes were very informative, but I was given all that Christian perspective from it like the "Don't masturbate!" lecture. Like that ever stopped us. As I said, they helped but I learned a lot more on my own from that book. I don't think the sex ed I received while still in public school could improve that much, it was very informative and told us pretty much everything we ever needed/wanted to know. I just think that they could have taken out the Christian perspective part of it. That sort of ruined it for me.

[Perseus]

Lol, no. In middle school it was just "if you have sex before marriage, you will get an STD and get the woman who you had sex with will get pregnant". Now, I'm in ninth grade in health and we haven't gotten to that part yet, so I shall see how goofy it is when we get there, in like a couple of weeks or something. XD

[Patchy]

The more I think of it now, it was a way of talking about sex with the other gender. It went from the boys at aged 8 talking about girls boobies to actually sitting in front of them and watch a video about puberty and realise this isn't a immature thing that we have to keep between our own gender.

After sex ed at my primary school girls and guys were more open with each other about sex and stuff though it was still very immature obviously, we were 8 after all lol.

[Strength]

Didn't really help with the actual sex part...porn has been my teacher :D

[drew.]

no i found out everything from friends

[Hatsune Miku]

Not really... The teacher was kind of an idiot though...

"USE CONDOMS!!! SEX IS BAD!!! SPERM!!!!!!!!!"

She didn't even talk about masturbation, which is a big part in sex ed ( I think? )

[magikarpy]

No. My parents gave me the whole sex talk at 10 years old. So rehearing it from a teacher was just awkward.

[Camazotz]

Yes, the program at my school taught us useful information, even if I knew most of it going into it. Regardless, it was definitely worth learning again so I could retain the information better. I'm sure it helped my classmates as well.

[Amnesiac]

We had a veteran police officer from Beaumont come to our (middle) school last year, and all he talked about was how if we "did it", we would get (awkwardly) caught by the authorities and fined/arrested/put on the sex offender list. It's ridiculous. And it didn't make any impact, because people did it anyway. Abstinence teaching obviously hasn't done much good down here in Texas (aren't we the state with the highest teen pregnancy rate??)

The elementary school puberty course, however, was actually full of good information and worked well.

[lipstick_kisses23]

our school never taught us how to put condoms on guys (and never taught guys how to put them on themselves) and there are about 6 pregnacies a year for each grade (9th through 12th). Kids do't really ask their parents either for fear of getting their anuses snatched out of their mouths, so they either put it on wrong, dont wear one at all, or stay abstinent.

[Apparitions]

No. I knew all of it anyway from my parents, the internet and generally figuring stuff.

Didn't really help with the actual sex part...porn has been my teacher :D
Same with me. I learnt a LOT from porn.

[cuarta_internacional]

Uh, the only really helpful lecture we got was in 5th grade when we got a heads-up on what puberty was going to bring.

Other than that the discussions avoided any mention of sexuality only to condemn it until marriage, which I think is what most kids are uncertain about.

I learned more useful information from my parents and from the 'net (NOT porn.)

[sCa45]

We didn't even have it at my school.

[Setzer]

no, I did it last year, and being mine a classroom with only two males against 22 girls, it was very embarassing to me -.- especially the masturbation part -.- the "how to put a condom" part was the worst one, everybody looking at me putting a condom to a highlighter -.- most embarassing ever -.-

[Insanity Fair]

I never got sex education at school. I learned everything from the internet and personal experience.

[Continuum]

We don't take it seriously, it makes us look that we know more than the one who's teaching. It's the part that they partly censor it to a point that they look like idiots >_>