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Contributor: SubmissiveFeminist SubmissiveFeminist
What is your history of sex education? What schools taught you about sex?
Answers (private voting - your screen name will NOT appear in the results):
No sexual education.
1
Abstinence -only sex education.
7
Elementary school-level sex education.
4
Middle school-level sex education.
23
High school-level sex education.
25
College course of sexual education or human sexuality.
14
Adult-level sex education workshop or presentation.
3
Total votes: 77 (47 voters)
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04/06/2012
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Contributor: Kitka Kitka
Just middle school and high school education for me. Beyond that it's all been experience.
04/06/2012
Contributor: MissCandyland MissCandyland
I took a human sexuality class in college. It was great!
04/06/2012
Contributor: Bex1331 Bex1331
I would love to take college level courses or go to adult education classes but my college doesn't offer them and I've never had the opportunity =(
04/06/2012
Contributor: WhoopieDoo WhoopieDoo
Living in Mississippi, anything besides abstinence only sex ed is VERY taboo .....it's really very sad. So many pregnant high-schoolers (and middle schoolers) here.
04/06/2012
Contributor: Beck Beck
We had classes in Jr high and High school, but all they really talked about was abstinence. They really tried to shove down our throats that sex was something that you should wait for and they only way to avoid becoming pregnant or getting an STD was abstinence. They did talk about condom usage, but briefly. I live in Ohio. And I am only 23, so that was not that long ago. What I learned about sex I taught myself. They surely did not teach us the right way.
04/06/2012
Contributor: romstomp romstomp
We had sex ed in grammar and high school. We got to learn how to put condoms on carrots and cucumbers.
04/06/2012
Contributor: ghalik ghalik
Never had sex ed until college, when I took Human Sexuality. Terribly boring class.
04/06/2012
Contributor: garylangworthy420 garylangworthy420
my high school skipped the class where we learned to properly use a condom to watch the movie "the secret"
04/06/2012
Contributor: DiamondKoala DiamondKoala
High school and personal research more than anything else.
04/07/2012
Contributor: vanilla&chocolate vanilla&chocolate
High school sex education, but my personal research has proved far more fruitful. It wasn't abstinence-only, as my teacher did inform us about condoms, although they could not be demonstrated or given out.
04/07/2012
Contributor: plaidvulva plaidvulva
Middle School/Junior High, three classes in all I think - they all preached abstinence. They also told me that condoms barely worked, didn't typically prevent STDs of any kind and said something somewhere that I'd probably go to hell. They also said something about birth control being dangerous to, not only the woman using it, but also dangerous to the health of the man they're with.

Needless to say, it was a very pointless and counter-productive experience (considered I pretty much became a slut after this).

But, yeah, I have plenty of sex knowledge through experience, because the classes clearly never helped.
04/07/2012
Contributor: Teaser Teaser
Seems to me it was pretty much "don't do that" from all my educators.
04/07/2012
Contributor: ToyTimeTim ToyTimeTim
Basic anatomy sex ed for me, I think my mom moved me from school to school just so I did not get all the info. She forgot I had an older brother I learned early.
04/07/2012
Contributor: SubmissiveFeminist SubmissiveFeminist
Quote:
Originally posted by Teaser
Seems to me it was pretty much "don't do that" from all my educators.
It's like that a lot. I'm studying to be an adult sex educator, and my focus is on "do this!" more than "don't do that!" because a lot of people aren't experienced on the pleasure aspect of sex. I feel like sex education is mostly about STDs and there is just so much more to sex than that!
04/07/2012
Contributor: Raigne Raigne
In addition to getting it every year from sixth grade on in school, my mother sat me down with a kit and a video designed for middle schoolers when I was 8 or 9. She was an early bloomer (hit puberty at 10) and lost her virginity at 13 (resulting in an STD), and she wanted to make sure I was properly prepared for it.
04/07/2012
Contributor: namelesschaos namelesschaos
I got abstinence only in elementary and high school but have sense taken several college level course in sexuality.
04/14/2012
Contributor: sexxxkitten sexxxkitten
High school. There wasn't a lot of information given though. I live in the South.
04/14/2012
Contributor: bayosgirl bayosgirl
Sex ed in high school as part of health class.
04/14/2012
Contributor: BlooJay BlooJay
I've had a college level class.
05/21/2012
Contributor: SkinFlute SkinFlute
I live in the Bible Belt, so the only sex ed was "Don't do that. Don't ask questions." Sadly, I learned everything from friends and on the internet.
05/28/2012
Contributor: kims89 kims89
just middle & high school here
08/27/2012
Contributor: mamaseatspoop mamaseatspoop
taught through middle and high school.
11/19/2012