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Message 160 of 306 (313420)
05-19-2006 1:59 AM
Reply to: Message 154 by Faith
05-18-2006 5:28 PM


Life problems are not necessairly beyond sex educational programs.
For example at my college they provide a class called human sexuality. Now while it didn't give me any diffinitive answers about sex or what i'm supposed to be feeling or how i'm supposed to exactly conduct a healthy relationship. It did provide me a chance to roleplay very serious relationship questions and practice the communication involved within relationships.
Sex Education at my college has very strict grounds to cover and by far i learned more in that particular class then i did with any abstinence material i picked up. And while abstienence is a purely valid form of education, the way it is currently taught as indicated by the Waxman report (http://www.democrats.reform.house.gov/...201102153-50247.pdf). (yes it is a political report done independantly by a congressman that went and analyzed the materials that are used by abstience programs [which by the way anyone can do] program literature was analyzed and compared to the government STANDARD CDC materials) Basically demonstrates that several, not all, were providing false, inadequate, or misleading information about gender roles, contraceptives etc. if they even talked about them.
And life problems are also not beyond the scope of a sex ed class because frankly if your literally born androgynous, born with both sets of genitalia, born with the wrong set of genitalia, don't understand why you were assigned a speciifc sex (sex as in you got girl genitalia or boy genitalia) when it don't fit [for example some girls are born with larger clitorisis and may be mistaken for boys], don't like the gender (masculine, feminine or androgynous) role you have been placed in. It is extremely nice to know that there are other people whom have experienced the same difficulty because then there is some sort of connection you can make to life.
Your comment toward brenna was extremely trite, uncalled for and just down right demonstrating a lack of respect for another person. Just because someone has a different perspective on life gives zero right for you to belittle them.

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