cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22978365
The worst thing I ever read about the issues about destroying sexual education is that it also leaves children unable to actually describe any abuse, because they don’t know what’s going on, what anything is called, and what is and isn’t a “good” touch.
I’m not saying Florida Republicans are in any way wanting that outcome, but you have to at least wonder why they’re so concerned about this.
I imagine that Florida is to Americans, what America is to the rest of the world.
Did yall used to think we were generally pretty cool though off? I think that’s the sad thing here, Florida is like the cousin you kinda liked before they got hardcore into meth. Like you aren’t surprised they tried meth, they seemed the type, but they didn’t seem the type to mug grandma at a family reunion before stealing your mom’s Ritalin, but well here we are and now mom won’t be able to focus for the rest of the month, grandma can’t stop crying, and they just shot the cigarette pinata
I don’t think Florida has been cool at any point in my lifetime. They started meth before I was born, and by the time I was old enough to form memories they were most well known for “Florida Man.” You’d have to go back to the 80s to find a time when Florida was cool.
Florida has only ever been a punchline for as long as I’ve been around.
There are many amazing things that came from Florida and are still in Florida right now. But as a package deal, I certainly haven’t heard of a time where they’ve been above par.
Or would that technically be “below par”? Isn’t being under par the objective? I don’t know, I don’t play golf. Florida’s got acres of fucking golf courses, surely someone there could tell me the answer.
What remains is a discussion of the benefits of abstinence and a cursory review of various sexually transmitted diseases.
Oh hey, that’s the sex ed we got in my school. Along with at least 4 pregnant girls I knew of under 17 in a very small rural school. The youngest was 13.
If the people “teaching” us ever connected those facts, it wasn’t apparent to me.
They want more teen pregnancies. Teen pregnancies tend to keep the mother poor, and subsequently the child. That keeps them desperate and more likely to be desperate enough to take shitty, low paying jobs, or potentially even doing slave labor in a for profit prison.
It also puts strain on the rest of the family.
I used to think, ‘oh, people against sex ed just don’t understand the good things it does! Later first pregnancies, protection from abuse, std prevention…if they understood, of course they’d be on board!’ Haha, oh younger me.
I still do think there are lots of people who come around, if some source they trust reaches them, but I was mistaken to think certain other people were actually against child abuse and teenage pregnancy.
30 … shit 40 years ago when I was a kid … sex education came from kids who were one or two years older than you … hustler magazine and porn videos.
I think I was about 20 before I properly understood what sex was and I had to learn it all on my own.
Freshman year of college, my friends group had to explain how stuff works to a member. She’d just gotten her first boyfriend and really needed The Talk.
My mom handled things by just leaving out a copy of “What’s Happening to My Body?”, but then again, I was a very bookish child.
I vaguely remember the “sex ed” video our Catholic elementary school showed as an optional parent/kid evening event. The most direct it got about sex was a line drawing of a cow and a bull, then a dotted line arrow appeared from the bull’s crotch area to the cow’s, as the narrator said, “The male inserts his penis into the vagina of the female…” then stuff about the sperm fertilizing the egg. We were left completely clueless until we figured out the details by trial and error in high school.
The look on your faces when you found out that you didn’t even need cattle for it!
I grew up rural too, but in a less conservative area, and… Honestly, it made for some hilarious moments in sex ed.
I think the crowning moment was in high school health class - at the start of the sex ed unit, they split us up by gender, and had both groups try to draw both reproductive systems as a baseline for what we knew. Both groups did pretry well with the male stuff, but there was a stark (and unexpected) difference in the diagrams of the female reproductive system:
The girls group did an excellent job of drawing and labeling a vagina, but almost none of the internal bits.
The boys group, though… One dude had noticed something about the general shape of female reproductive system in an earlier class, and came up with a his own mnemonic for it: turns out, you can sketch oit the general layout of the ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, and birth canal pretty neatly over the dodge ram logo.
Man my catholic school made us label the vas deferens in 6th grade. Mind you they also told us condoms don’t prevent the spread of hiv.
my catholic school made us label the vas deferens in 6th grade
Hopefully not on yourself with marker lol
