If you ever ask a teenager if murder is wrong, he or she would probably say, “yes”. Asking him or her why and you’ll probably get an answer along the lines that well, I can’t really say, but I know I would be put in prison or executed. In other words, most kids who go through our government skools have no grounding in moral issues, just vague concepts they juggle around in their confused heads.
What a wonderful time to be alive. Your balls drop, your grow pimples all over your body, and you become sexually aware. At this point, nothing is fun anymore, at least nothing you used to enjoy. In fact, the only thing that gets you going is the prospect of sexual activity with someone else (or multiple someones). As a former teenage male, I can attest to all these things happening to probably about 92% of all males between the ages of 12 and 16 at some point or another.
But let me tell you, even though I went through the International Baccalaureate program, the sex education was kind of like sitting through a biology professor discuss the mating habits of worms. Poorly.
It was all instruction and no real substance on the topic. There was nothing about the social implications of having sex, the emotional impact, or the different ways that men and women generally tend to look at it. And of course, there was no moral component to it. No, I had to get that during my college orientation with vivid descriptions of some idiot and some dumb bitch describing a really bad sexual experience with each other’s friends. And the message I got from that was that you should never have sex; although I think the message was suppose to be about miscommunication in the signals given off by each other during drunken, intimate moments.
The point is that sex education is probably one of the most pointless forms of education the state provides. Heck, most of them don’t even talk about how to actually have sex, that you have to learn by watching porn and not the softcore kind. Even then, there are lot of unrealistic expectations on it, especially for your first time (here’s a hint to all you virgins out there: keep it simple).
Now, I’m hearing about how abstinence education doesn’t work, that teenage pregnancies are higher in abstinence-only states. While you can interpret that how you want, I say that the whole point of abstinence education is to push for saving yourself (to use a woman’s term) until marriage. And though this is a good thing from my point of view, having some lesbian gym teacher talk about it to you is probably not the best option.
Sex is a very personal and private thing, and largely remains so, despite the best efforts of gay pride parades and Hollywood. And most parents are way too cowardly to talk about it with their children in a very serious way. That is why we have taken what is a fundamental part of parenting and given it over to the State. Because some teacher who quite possibly has an IQ lower than yours and a bad opinion about is a much better choice than you when it comes to intimate, personal matters.
Whether you are religious or not, it is your responsibility as a parent to educate your children on all things related to sex. If you’re a Christian, you need to make it clear why abstinence is so important in their walk with God. The same goes for whatever other religion you might happen to be since most religions do discuss the subject in depth and have various laws regarding it. If you are not religious, I’m sure you’ll have plenty to say on the subject. Religious or not, I’m sure we all can agree that sex is not something you take lightly.
Sure, there are always nutjobs out there with weird opinions on sex. I could very well be one of them. But those nutjobs are going to express their opinions about the matter to their children anyway, so no amount of sex education can stop them. Besides, most teenagers have enough sense to recognize when their parents are totally and utterly insane.
So please, can we stop dumping tax money into something that really comes down to a family issue? I’ve never really understood the point of sex education anyway. Humanity got by just fine for thousands of years before governments decided it was a good idea to teach it to children anyway.