Heh. Catholic school survivor here: I thought if I peed into a toilet and mixed it with a girl’s pee, a baby would be made in the sewer.
I was taught HIV was from gay people putting things in the wrong places. I always got scared about having to shower my butt and junk because it meant I was touching one after the other and I could carelessly give myself AIDS. They never taught me if it was the dick touching the poo or the poo touching the dick that would kill me,.so I never knew which to clean first.
What’s insane is so many adults still believe AIDS is from being gay. I mean it takes a seconds to reason that any man is more likely to spread AIDS because, you know, they’re shooting a bunch of bodily fluids into someone else. But no, the virus can sense the homosexuality.
Just imagining sewer babies makes me laugh
Also “sewer babies” sounds line a good band name
Ontarian here. The joke is that Catholic high schools here have daycares in them because their sex Ed is non-existent.
I’m going to go on a limb and guess that the Catholic school system in Ontario is run by mostly laypeople and a few secular priests instead of one of the orders renowned for their teaching ministry, like the Jesuits.
There are four separate school systems in Ontario not including private schools. English public, English Catholic, French public, and French catholic.
Can’t imagine how much waste there is in a system with four departments doing the same thing.
There should be one school system with a French and English. No catholic influences at all.
It’s so sad what parents and schools do to kids by withholding basic health info to keep them from being “promiscuous.” I knew an older woman who told me when she got her first period that she didn’t know what was happening and she was terrified. She didn’t want to tell her parents, because they just didn’t talk about body stuff, so she waded waist deep in a cold stream to try and stop the bleeding.
Fun fact, this is precisely why the first suicide hotline was implemented in the US.
A young girl killed herself because she got her first period and thought she had gotten an STD. She had no one to talk to and took her own life.
It’s story like this that make me viscerally angry at people who preach abstinence only sex education. You can’t just tell young people to ignore the changes happening to their bodies, it only leads to confusion, mistakes, and fear.
Actually, a small correction: the suicide hotline connected to the story is from the UK, not the USA.
It was actually one of the first crisis hotlines not just in the UK, but also in the world. It was founded in 1953 and the organization’s name is the Samaritans. It was also founded by a priest!
You can look this info up on Wikipedia.
I’ve met that kind of priest. Good folks, they understand that their job is mostly just to help people and that the religious part is window dressing to that.
Must’ve been heavy petting.
Believe it or not, but some of the religious edge cases either don’t have internet access, or don’t let their kids use it. One of my kid’s friends is insanely restricted in that regard, but that’s a public school, so I don’t doubt there’s some roughly factual information that gets to them anyway.
A private school though? I can see a person being a full adult and not even suspecting they were lied to until they run across something.
You might be surprised at how much supression of this information there is, how much fear and/or punishment tactics actually work.
Couple that with many people still having a family computer and not necessarily allowing children to have their own devices or monitoring/controlling everything they do on them, with religious homeschooling, book banning and abstenance only sex ed and you can have your answer about why some people still don’t know.
You mean why most people in general don’t know? Yeah I took it as such.
I apologise if I came off rudely though.
Mummy Laid an Egg - Babette Cole
published 1994. literally all the information a kid needs.
I read it in Year R (the UK equivalent to Kindergarten)
Unfortunately, no one at her school handed out the official “Books PrettyFlyForAFatGuy Read as a Child” list so she could catch up.
I didn’t say they did. I’m pointing out the assertion “Information was not as easily accessible in the 90s” is false.
It was, and it was in an easy to read and fun format for children.
The 90s wasn’t a dark age.
Someone made an active choice not to educate this child properly. don’t blame the 90s
Come on now, that info was widely available well before the 90’s.
This is some troll level bullshit.
