I somehow stumbled today from reading Autostraddle's NSFW Sunday to reading an advice article for mums who are trying to have "the talk" with their daughters
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This was really quite interesting to read. I'm cozcat from Tumblr, and I've never really gotten any sort of proper sex ed. In primary school we got the standard anatomy-and-that-crap that's probably fine for year fives and sixes. However, we got to the end of year nine, which is when we decide our own subjects (as the next year is the year before VCE), and the only health ed we'd had was part of a program that we did for a term, which was nutrition. So the last sex ed my school offered was in year six. I'm now coming up to the end of year 11, and the only thing resembling sex ed I've had since then is biology (did 1/2 in year 10), in which we discussed the logistics of human intercourse for purposes of reproduction, which was applied to all species that reproduce sexually, and humans were just used as the application to what we already know.
I think I've technically been raised Christian, but as far as I'm concerned, I'm agnostic. This being said, I have never had the talk (I deflected it. These are the sorts of discussions I don't want to have with my mother, and I'm more the type to learn independently, anyway.) The places that we're supposed to get the talk - so that everyone gets them, such as school - didn't have heterosexual sex ed, let alone any homosexual sex ed. (I'm not sure if there are any better terms.)
In this day and age, a lot of people probably learn what they know from books, looking it up on the internet, or (as I did) smutty fanfiction. The people that need to learn it probably don't, though. All over, my school's sex ed is negligent at best. Even though people often find out what they need to independently, it really isn't enough.
(My apologies for any repetitiveness or incoherence. I'm tired.)
I think I've technically been raised Christian, but as far as I'm concerned, I'm agnostic. This being said, I have never had the talk (I deflected it. These are the sorts of discussions I don't want to have with my mother, and I'm more the type to learn independently, anyway.) The places that we're supposed to get the talk - so that everyone gets them, such as school - didn't have heterosexual sex ed, let alone any homosexual sex ed. (I'm not sure if there are any better terms.)
In this day and age, a lot of people probably learn what they know from books, looking it up on the internet, or (as I did) smutty fanfiction. The people that need to learn it probably don't, though. All over, my school's sex ed is negligent at best. Even though people often find out what they need to independently, it really isn't enough.
(My apologies for any repetitiveness or incoherence. I'm tired.)
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