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Originally Posted by ratbastid
I know you're plenty sex-positive. You think abstinence-only education is a GOOD idea?
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I don't know that abstinence-only is an accurate way to describe it. One of our son's teachers (sex ed is covered in physical education here) called his abstinence-based. There was discussion of contraceptives, STDs and such, but he also instructed that the only sure way to avoid pregnancy and STDs was abstinence. Talking with him at parent teacher conferences I didn't come away with the feeling that he was teaching that sex makes baby Jesus cry. Of course I don't think he was teaching anything "sex positive".
Anything most people on this forum consider to be sex positive being discussed in sex ed would likely lead to angry parents showing up at school board meetings. A curriculum that discusses homosexuality, multiple partners, premarital sex, fetishes or anything beyond sex for a lawfully wedded man and woman can't happen easily in our society until college it seems. Of course this does no good for the freshman and sophomore high school students (or younger) who are sexually active.