Re: Contraception? Who knew? Apparently not women
Erm...I'm from suburban southern Illinois, and i had sex ed starting in the 5th grade, in the very early 90s, all the up thru highschool...in public school. Not that it mattered, my mom was a nurse and I started getting the sex talk in 1st grade. Learned to use a condom in 5th grade, when my mom had an 11 yo patient with a tubal. Went to my first OB visit at 14, which was the soonest she took patients.
Phee knows what sex is. She knows where babies come from. She knows what boy and girl parts are (inside and out). She knows about menstruation and that there are ways to prevent the sperm from reaching the egg. She knows about fetal development. She vaguely knows the mechanics of sex, in the general sense of penis goes into the vagina and puts sperm in there. She vagely knows what mastrubation is because kids start touvhing themselves in the womb and we've never made it a big deal (except to tell them that is something that is done in the privacy of the bedroom or bathroom.
With that being said, i think there should never be a sex talk. Never. I think there should hundreds of the damn things...kids are curious. They want to know where they came from...heck, where people came from...why and how. They get more than we often give them credit for. The more we normalize sex as parents, the less intrieguing it is, the less tempting it is because its taboo. Not saying its not tempting anymore, but hopefully its tempting for the right reasons and not the wrong ones.
Erm...I'm from suburban southern Illinois, and i had sex ed starting in the 5th grade, in the very early 90s, all the up thru highschool...in public school. Not that it mattered, my mom was a nurse and I started getting the sex talk in 1st grade. Learned to use a condom in 5th grade, when my mom had an 11 yo patient with a tubal. Went to my first OB visit at 14, which was the soonest she took patients.
Phee knows what sex is. She knows where babies come from. She knows what boy and girl parts are (inside and out). She knows about menstruation and that there are ways to prevent the sperm from reaching the egg. She knows about fetal development. She vaguely knows the mechanics of sex, in the general sense of penis goes into the vagina and puts sperm in there. She vagely knows what mastrubation is because kids start touvhing themselves in the womb and we've never made it a big deal (except to tell them that is something that is done in the privacy of the bedroom or bathroom.
With that being said, i think there should never be a sex talk. Never. I think there should hundreds of the damn things...kids are curious. They want to know where they came from...heck, where people came from...why and how. They get more than we often give them credit for. The more we normalize sex as parents, the less intrieguing it is, the less tempting it is because its taboo. Not saying its not tempting anymore, but hopefully its tempting for the right reasons and not the wrong ones.
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