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| Sex Education; At what age should it be taught? | |
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| Maiden | Sep 1 2006, 03:44 PM Post #16 |
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Yes, I was cause my mom didn't know when to start me and I really didn't care for reading I was doing Math really good before preschool though :lol:
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| Seeker | Sep 1 2006, 04:30 PM Post #17 |
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Around puberty and perhaps a few other times after that. It doesn't seem to me that there's any use to teaching children about sex when their minds won't naturally drift to the subject. |
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| Inuyatta | Sep 2 2006, 01:39 AM Post #18 |
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well...considering that a ten-year old got knocked up around here, I'd say it varies as to when kids start getting curious.
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| 012607 | Sep 2 2006, 04:40 PM Post #19 |
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Actually, if any of you here know about Freud's work, you should know that there really is no "when children become curious." To put it bluntly, we're all born as sexual beings. Summing up a lot of psychology as best I can in a short space, we go through five stages of psychosexual development: the oral stage, the anal stage, the phallic stage, latency period and genital stage. The oral and anal stages are pretty much what they sound like-pleasure through oral or anal means (for example how young kids love to put things in their mouths, etc, and for anal the beginning of toilet training.) These stages last from birth until the kid is about three years old. The phallic stage is probably the most important, where the child becomes very aware of its own, and other's, genitals as an erogenous zone, and the stage often comes with a dose of Oedipus Complex (Electra for girls). Latency is where... kids becomes kids (five or so) and put sexaul desires to the back of their minds. When the genital stage comes along, around puberty, is when the child begins to take interest in sexual relationships once more. In short--sex is natural, we're born that way. If you have younger siblings or children yourself, you've probably witnessed boys still in nappies getting erections and the like. I can't remember the exact figure off the top of my head, but most children have their first sexual experience at a very young age (and interestingly enough, with a relative.) Uhh, but back on topic! I honestly think the sex education system here, and in America is terrible. I can't speak for most of Europe, however. Kids should be taught about sex from a very young age, for several reasons. Firstly, it's nice to know what our own bodies are for, and what they do, and why they do things. And secondly, protection. Paedophilia (and ephebophilia, to a lesser extent) does happen, sadly, and kids need to know what's happening--what's right and wrong. As for teens, well, the education's still bad. Teaching abstinence is a terrible idea, as it only leaves you naive. Anyone who thinks that this is a good idea--whether they like the idea of sex or not--should not be allowed to teach it. Honestly, sex can't be hidden from kids forever. ;P Still, just teaching about technical details and about STDs isn't really enough either. Sure, that's more than vital, but it doesn't really prepare you. I wish when I was in school someone had sat down with us and said, "Now ladies, this is going to hurt like Hell, and it probably won't even work!" In short: kids should be taught sex education as soon as they start school, so they can worm into the topic gradually. =] |
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| Sadhana | Sep 2 2006, 05:11 PM Post #20 |
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Freudian psychology, specifically the stages of development, has long been abandoned in contemporary times. Mostly, he's looked at in reverence as the first mainstream psychologist. Psychoanalysis is where the remnants of his work can still be found in mainstream psychology today, but even that only follows the very basics of Freud's original work. I'm not sure what you want from sex ed for teens in America. I thought I got a great sex education. We were all given the address and phone number of planned parenthood, shown the proper way to put on a condom, and about how sex can change a romantic relationship by helping it grow or even hindering it. In fact, I thought the sex ed in my school was pretty practical. |
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| 012607 | Sep 2 2006, 05:32 PM Post #21 |
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I'm not sure what you want from sex ed for teens in America. Uh, not an American here. |
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| Sadhana | Sep 2 2006, 05:46 PM Post #22 |
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I was replying to that statement. |
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| 012607 | Sep 2 2006, 05:47 PM Post #23 |
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Fair play. Just got confused what with you discussing Freud. |
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| TidusBlankety | Sep 2 2006, 06:31 PM Post #24 |
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lets see they told us about puberty in 4th grade, and again in 6th grade. Then in 7th they taught us abstinence without really telling us what it is. Then more in depth in 9th grade what stds are and drugs and all that stuff. I dont know my parents told me everything i wanted to know, and i knew it all in about 7th grade. They said i could do wahtever and they wouldnt care...so i guess i never really cared about drugs drinking or sex cause it didnt really matter to me. |
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| yin-chan | Sep 2 2006, 11:36 PM Post #25 |
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Uh, you guys are lucky. (I think? :lol: ) I've never been taught sex education from where I came from. It's pretty much considered a taboo thing. The only form of education that came slightly close to being considered 'sex education' was when the female teachers gathered all the female students in a lecture hall and handed out free sanitary pads. That's about it. Not very sexual at all, no. So we mostly got all our sex ed from magazines or the internetzzz. But anyways, I do agree that kids should be taught from a young age. It could really increase awareness and teach them all the facts. The mentality seems to be that, 'if you don't talk about it, it won't happen' - but that's not true. Like 012607 said, humans are sexual beings. Sooner or later people will want to explore and that's when you get into trouble if you don't know a single thing. I once knew a girl who got herself pregnant multiple times because she thought mass orgies were safe. O____O Sex Ed = Important. |
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| kikyo_cat | Sep 3 2006, 04:55 AM Post #26 |
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Ok, well in 3rd grade we went on a field trip to something or other health museum, they explained the whole inside of your body thing and then they took the girls into a seperate room and taught us about periods and crap for like 2 hours and talked about the sperm and eggs and tissue and all that which I'm not going into detail with. but what kind of 3rd grader is going to go have sex? In third grade there were still kids running around telling me boys had cuties (I was friends with mostly guys) I mean, we need to know eventually but I think that's more of a 7-8th grade field trip, definatly not 3rd. they did change this within the past few years, I think they take 4-5th graders now... ugh it's so wierd though..it's not like a 3-5th grade girl is going to be like "oh, my friend <boy name> is the best friend ever, I'm going to get naked in my bed so we can play around" I mean seriously...and what are the third grade boys thinking "look at <girl name>'s boobs..ugh i wanna touch them" ...I think not. It's just so funny how they teach us these things so early...better too early then late I guess though, don't want some girl getting her period at school and go around asking why she's bleeding from there... |
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and I really didn't care for reading I was doing Math really good before preschool though :lol:






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