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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Indiana judge strikes down law allowing the arrest of suspected illegal immigrants
Jim Carrey Trashes Fox News: Network ‘Nothing More Than A Giant Culture Fart’
edited 29th Mar '13 6:16:26 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016When the guy known for literally talking out of his own ass is calling you a giant culture fart, that's... that's not a good sign.
Wizard Needs Food Badlyso in ridiculous political news time, Science teacher decides to conduct a sex ed day in class because the health teacher wont. makes attendance of class optional for that day for people who object. Gets parents angry at him anyway for daring to even bring up the subject of birth control or saying the word vagina to 10th graders.
There has to be more to it than that. Anybody who seriously thinks the existence of vagina's would shock a bunch of 10th graders is an idiot. I'm sure a decent amount of kids in that class were already very familiar with them.
Where the hell are you supposed to teach it?
I learned it in health class, though it was heavily focused on abstinence and "do not make babies before you are happily married" with very little discussion of birth control.
@Kostya: Yes, but they're likely to have figured it out with a mix of secondhand guesses and outright superstition, which is not necessarily conducive to either healthy sexual behavior or not getting assailed by overzealous prosecutors for sexting.
My health class consisted of both the scientific basics behind sex. followed by being forced to watch a video of every possible sexual disease out there to convince us all how if we ever sexed a woman outside a christian marriage our peenies would burn off.
Course, they also didnt give us this talk until high school. when most of us were either already sexing or had discovered the then infant-ish Internet of the 1990's where porn was already easy to find free.
edited 30th Mar '13 3:45:17 PM by Midgetsnowman
I never got any sort of sex-ed. No talk of ST Ds, no abstinence-only stuff, nada.
"I don't know how I do it. I'm like the Mr. Bean of sex." -DrunkscriblerianI must have gone to a very atypical elementary school 'cause I got this stuff taught to me in third grade.
"The marvel is not that the Bear posts well, but that the Bear posts at all."Same,until I was bombarded by it in 9th grade,....of course High School was so liberal it was easier to get condoms than an ice pack.
And yeah that science class teacher needs a medal for that.
Yes Sex-ed was a lot like that example for me as well,even down to learning how to use condoms.
edited 30th Mar '13 4:09:24 PM by terlwyth
I might as well add me two cents. In Scotland, we were told about the biology of sex, not to pressure each other into it (the eduvids illustrating this all featured men as the aggressive partner), that being gay was alright, and in one lesson were given some condoms and some plastic dicks and shown how to put one on properly. None of this was in the least controversial with parents.
So yeah, that's the British method. Interesting how it compares.
edited 30th Mar '13 3:59:47 PM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der ParteiObama Stops by Marquette-Syracuse Basketball Game
Governor Jerry Brown pardons 65 on eve of Easter
edited 30th Mar '13 7:50:44 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016

remember guys. Conservativism can be failed, but it cannot fail 8D