Sex ed

[pne]

In an entry in mock_the_stupid, I found this comment:

I had a Catholic latin teacher and her attitude to sex was that you should wait until you're married. However, if you don't then this is what you need to know. It was the most sensible perspective I've ever heard.

I think I like the way that was phrased and it sounds like a viewpoint I could hold.

Comments

[pne.livejournal.com]

I support the right of parents to teach their own children about their sexual morality, which may include anti-homosexual and anti-premarital sex stuff.

*nods* That's really where I was coming from with that quote -- as a viewpoint I could hold or transmit to my children. The fact that the quote originated from a teacher was incidental to my point.

See, sometimes I'm still trying to figure out the position I should hold on this or that. I think that people shouldn't have sex outside marriage, but I can see how abstinence-only information is not likely to help since not everyone is a perfect little angel and thing will happen, but I haven't thought things through completely. And the attitude in the quote seemed like a reasonable approach that meshed with my values (which I'd like to transmit to my children) and with necessary information.

I'm sure there are people who try to tell their twelve-year-old sons not to masturbate, too, with varying levels of success.

*nods*

I feel that schools, if they choose to teach sexuality education, should present the bare facts of human reproduction, preventing reproduction, terminating pregnancy, carrying pregnancy to term, the transmission of veneral diseases, the use of prophylactics.

That sounds reasonable.

[leora.livejournal.com]

For a parent, I think it's a completely reasonable and sensible way to handle the matter if you feel premarital sex is wrong. :)

My objections, like jpallan's, are just with the borders between what schools should do and what parents should do. But it sounds like quite sensible parenting to me. Not my personal views, so I wouldn't raise my own children that way, but views and attitudes I can respect.

[pne.livejournal.com]

Thank you.