Monday, April 9, 2012

A Perfect World Sex-Ed: Things I've Learned From the Interwebz, Reading, and Friend, Not Teachers and Parents.

Having a proper sexual education in school won’t cause more sex.
There’s a show about pregnant teenagers, what damage do you really think is still left to be done?


MAYBE, if your own bodies and anatomy weren’t shamed and taboo to talk about, teenagers wouldn’t have sex or to impulsive things just to explore.  Not that I don’t slut-shame sometimes, because people will judge you on how you look, and that’s a fact of life.  But if you want your tits hanging out and your legs barely covered, that’s your choice to make.  But if boobies weren’t so taboo, it wouldn’t be a big deal.  If own own anatomy wasn’t somehow subconsciously wrong to discuss, kids wouldn’t giggle at the worlds vagina and penis.
MAYBE if you actually taught about contraception - INCLUDING the possibility of staying abstinent, but not limiting birth control education to that, kids would AT LEAST be having protected sex.  I am planning to stay a virgin probably until I’m out of high school. or nearly.  But I fully support selling condoms on campus.  Sex is unpreventable.  Unprotected sex is preventable.

MAYBE getting pregnant shouldn’t be used as the biggest freaking scare. Yes, diapers cost more than condoms, etc. A baby is forever, a significant other might not be.
But there’s more sex can result in than getting pregnant or getting herpes. There’s emotions to it, too. There is a vulnerability in being completely exposed, an innocence you can’t ever take back. The One becomes not The One, a few times, and you begin to build up regrets. When someone truly is special, they aren’t your first, no matter how much you wish you could turn things around. Maybe even mention that, you know. Sex should only be with love and consent. Not impulsion, drugs, and pressure.  (Wishful thinking now:)  They’d even go over porn/masturbation and how it’s a perfectly normal, acceptable, and useful tool to relieve sexual tension without having sex FOR BOTH GENDERS.

Also, it should be thrown in there somewhere that raping is not okay, and can happen with any gender on any gender. Girls can rape girls.  girls can rape boys.  Boys can rape boys.  Boys can rape girls.  It’s caused by misanthropy, not misogyny.  Pressuring goes both ways. Nothing is consensual but a yes. Right now, in society, we are taught “don’t get raped.” instead of “don’t rape.”  If a girl is wearing a low-cut shirt, you have no right to touch her.  If a person is drunk, you have no right to force yourself upon him/her.  if a person is hesitant to say no, you don’t take that as a yes.  If you’re giving a girl head, you are not magically allowed to take your pants off and force your dick in her.  People make this mistake, that one sexual activity allows for the others, and it’s so wrong.  Sometimes passion happens and you go farther than intended, but if someone says NO, I’m not ready to go farther, you freaking stop.  It doesn’t matter how aroused you are.  It doesn’t matter how much you want it.  You back off.  You respect.

And in the real world of honest, truthful, and open sex ed, they’d cover the fact that genders don’t have to fit binaries, and something about homosexuality, how homosexual love is okay, too.  They’d talk about the different forms of gender fluidity, how being trans is fine, being cis is fine, but there’s also mixes of the two.  They’d (God, I wish.) discuss chest binding, sex changes, and hormone therapy.  And to cover same-sex relationships, they’d discuss curiosity and real feelings, how it’s fine to experiment, and also fine to actually be gay, bi, or pan.  (and now it’s just wishful thinking.) But they’d briefly skitter around the details of gay and straight sex.

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