Myrr - who is your comment in response to?
I'm confused as to if you are calling me a puritan or if you are saying I'd be trying to make someone feel dirty for being intimate.
Just to clarify again, what consenting adults or mature individuals do in their own time and space is their own business. Not the governments, and not the neighbors.
But with that said, parents have a vested interest in the well being of their children, and having children running around with the impression that oral sex isn't sex, and oral sex won't potentially lead to STDs can be dead wrong.
We owe our offspring a better education than that, so that they don't face these issues uninformed. With that said, I've seen clips from the curriculum that is being taught in Montgomery County Maryland, and in Northern Virginia. It could be descriped as soft core pornography in many cases, or child pornography in other areas. A perky young lady, who looks even younger, was picked to star in the video because she seemed to be someone that could relate easily to the teen target audience -- including 10 and 11 year old children. The matter of fact speech she gives in the narration covers about 20 seconds of discussion saying abstinence is the best policy, then gives about 4 minutes worth of information telling the audience that gay sex is a wonderful thing, and is completely normal. Somewhere in the middle of things is a long discussion about how to use a condom, including a demonstration involving a cucumber or a banana.
On the one hand, it's a great educational tool. The young lady that was choosen is most definitely someone that a teen boy could relate to (as well as just about any other male), but the normalization of all types of sexual activity, including providing complete and detailed instructions to the children is not necessarily something I'm comfortable with.
You know, in many ways I'm reminded of the old joke about letting kids learn from Playboy / Penthouse like the prior generation did. It seemed so much less objectionable (though it certainly objectified women, and left people under-informed).
I'd like to see good educational materials used that are less objectionable, and do a better job of informing while stressing abstinence and more of the potential dangers of having sex period. I'm not talking reefer madness style over-hyped materials, and I'm not talking about Ben Stein style droning clinical style either. We need a happy medium that doesn't send our children out too quickly in seek of becoming happy.
