Some believe that if you give children too much information about sex they will be more experimental, others take the view that children should know everything.
I went to a catholic school and we were given our sex education about frogs to explain the comparssion. My first girlfriend nearly drowned in that pond.
In the light of the increasing levels of sti's in the young I wanted to ask if anyone has any good ideas to stop the spread or do we just leave then to get on with it? and what were you told at school and did it work? Do we just give all 13 year old boys a penile scrape down the GU clinic, to remind them what will happen if they put their willy in the wrong places.:confused: :confused: :mad: :P :rolleyes: :cool: ;) :loopy:

I think that my proudest moment was in reception class when I stood up and told the kids how you REALLY had a baby. I was 4 at the time as I went to school a year earlier.

I would like to add that it took me longer than most to put knowledge into action.

I am now a healthy 32 year old with 2 children. When it comes to their sexual education though I am finding myself a little more coy and I am skirting around it.

My four year old thinks he came through my naval. I am left wondering now if I should me more magnanimous like my mother.

Originally posted by miniminch

In the light of the increasing levels of sti's in the young I wanted to ask if anyone has any good ideas to stop the spread or do we just leave then to get on with it? and what were you told at school and did it work? Do we just give all 13 year old boys a penile scrape down the GU clinic, to remind them what will happen if they put their willy in the wrong

We show them close up pictures of STIs, like they do in the army. Those kind of pictures NEVER leave you and certainly help you remember to practice safe sex!

Apparently some people are not scared by anything. Even HIV see here (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10640&highlight=safe) . It will never happen to them, they know that.

So the pictures they have in the army never leave you eh!
An old instructor I had many years ago lost no opportunity in relating tales of squaddies who had the scrape, and gloried in giving the full detail, especially about the individual who returned numerous times for it because he kept going with the same woman.
I suppose it just goes to show that not everybody gets the message!

This is one of those threads thats not exactly male friendly, it will probably sink faster than the Belgrano.

May be if they did them scrape on all boys & girls in school they would all think about it. Mayber giving an HIV test to all before leaving school would give us some idea as tio how many are infected, and also might might make them think. Though you would still get those that thought they were immune to the deadly virus!

Maybe having the test once would be enough to make themthink about it.

Drop that last of our stupid Victorian prudishness and be more open about sex and hence de-mystify and de-taboo (if thats a word!) the subject. The more secretive you are about a subject the more mystique the subject will attract and the more attractive it will be. Treat it as any other bodily function and be more open about it and you take away alot of the power of the sexual imagry that kids/youngsters are bombarded with and hopefully get them to be a bit more adult about the whole subject.

Good idea, evildrneil. Especially considering how much lower the rates of STIs were during Victorian times, and pre-sex-education. Being open about it has really helped/improved things, hasn't it?
(sarcasm)

Originally posted by t020
Good idea, evildrneil. Especially considering how much lower the rates of STIs were during Victorian times, and pre-sex-education. Being open about it has really helped/improved things, hasn't it?
(sarcasm)

a) Were not particulaly open - sex education doesn't hit till way too late - and its still a subject of much sniggering.

b) STIs were virtually epidemics in the Victorian times - it may have been a time of extreme prudery but was also a time of deep hipocracy.

The one thing that isn't going to help are the ludicrous abstinance programmes that Georgie Porgy is fond of...whatever option we settle upon in the UK, I believe that would be the worst.

Have brought my son`s up aged 22,19 and 15 all about sex and what can happen if you have un-protected sex.

None of the three have ever had a sexually transmited diesese, but it didn`t stop one of them having un-protected sex.

I believe in telling them all about sex when they ask. My daughter is 10 and she asked about them the other day, we discussed it and I hope she understood.

The problem is that some teenagers don`t have any self respect for themselves or anyone else, even if they have been informed about un-protected sex.

You can only be honest with children and then hope they listen enough and take your advise.

Why is sex always blamed?
Sex is a good thing... the fact that we enjoy it is a gift.
Good sex is healthy and a vital part of nature, to state the obvious. So why is sex the enemy here?
The enemy is irresponsibility and ignorance. STDs are transmitted through stupidity, not sex. (Stupidly Transmitted Diseases)

We should therefore ban stupidity. If kids don't pass an exam in responsible and good sex technique they should have a SD (for sexual dunce) tattooed on their foreheads.

I wasn't blaming sex - I was blaming the taboos and prudery surrounding sex which make it difficyult for many people to get hold of condoms / have STI tests and even get information about STIs. Yes sex is a healthy and normal part of life and should be treated as such not as something to be sniggered about or obfuscated...