abstinece-only sex education

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Given US scope, if homosexual activity was still illegal you would have been for teaching that?

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Yes, if that was the law.I don't mean that it should be taught that it is right or wrong, but kids should learn about the laws.

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Where it is currently illegal to buy or use things like vibrators you are for teaching that?

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I'm not sure about that, and I can see how it might be problematic.The kinds of legal issues I had in mind were those involving consent.

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You will teach children exactly what about age appropriate LEGAL sexual activity and questions related to using graphic sexual material?

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I'd want to teach them about statutory rape, and sexual assault, and date rape.

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It's no use speaking of consent on a U.S. scale or even international. Laws on consent vary from state to state.

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Right, they do.And you teach the one that is relevant to the location.

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I mean, if we teach Minnesota consent laws, what would we teach? Well, we could teach that it's okay for 8th graders to have sex with other 8th graders, since that's conforming to consent laws. But will that acheive the goal of educating children against sex?

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Who says that's the goal?

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I mean, you want more abstinence to prevent the spread of disease, but don't seem to realize that the current laws don't say anything that would prevent youngens from boinging other youngens and incresing the spread of STDs.

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Who says I want more abstinence?I want kinds to have more information so they can make educated choices for themselves.If they want to abstain or screw like bunnies is up to them.

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Yeah but once you open the door to "legal issues" why does it get confined to what you want?

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Well, I don't know. Maybe design the curriculum content that way?We are talking about what I would like to see, after all.

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And as far as consent goes, whose concept of that are you going to use?

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The legal one, if it exists.

I used the word "moral" in my reply to Faith in order to work within her definition.I don't actually share Faith's position.