Crayon Shinchan said:
Unfortunately, the quality of education and what people get out of it varies immensely.
Fortunately, in your case, you've seemed to have figured on how to use a condom wrapper. Unfortunately, the quality of your education or your ability to learn from it, has failed you when it comes to empathy. The ability to understand the plight of others, without having to be in their shoes.
I mean... you even say it yourself; most can read the directions. But some... i.e. A LOT cannot.
Besides. What's there to object to in regards to sex education? Why object to it, if the facts, the numbers, and the figures, show it works?
I really didn't want to get into this, but having actually gone through sex ed here in Jersey (any Jersey natives want to chime in?), I know it's about a lot more than just genitalia and condoms.
A few key things that were taught in the class were, as mentioned by reilo or spec, that abstinence is the only 100% foolproof way of preventing unwanted pregnancies and STDs. I mean, this is pretty much the first thing my teacher said on the first day of the class and she put emphasis on the fact that this was the only method which is 100% effective (because it's fact). But the assumption is that not all of us are going to have only one partner and not all of us are going to wait till marriage to have sex and that some of us were
already having sex (and that's fact, too). Sex: it's hard wired into the genetics of all living organisms.
The class also covered a lot of the myths about AIDS and went into detail about STDs, how they're transmitted, how some STDs cannot be cured, the (scary) percentage of the population which carries some form of STD, and the class even covered the formation of a human embryo from fertilization to birth (very comprehensive).
Just birth control alone, we covered way more than just condoms. We also covered spermicides, different types of female birth control and their mechanisms (physical birth control and hormonal as well), and even effective family planning by understanding the female menstrual cycle and ovulation.
This is what comprehensive sex-ed is about. More than anything, it's a biology class focusing on the reproductive system which we are all born with, but given no or little practical instruction on how to use it and how to use it safely.
The whole sex ed discussion is retarded in my opinion because it's about more than just "Don't do it"; it's much more than that. It's about the biology of your body and the science of how reproduction works. It's not some lewd class where you go in and they show porn or something (seriously, have some of you guys even been in a sex-ed class?). I really don't understand the objection to comprehensive sex ed which is essentially like the only formal education that most people will ever have on one of the most important aspects of their life.
