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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
I'm all for sex education in school. But I also think there's a role to play for parents. Sex is more than a biological act. It happens in a social and emotional context. And people have different values and attitudes surrounding that context.
Personal finance is a good analogy. There are some fundamental principles of finance that everyone can and should learn. But values surrounding finance vary with culture and with family, and will be personal. Some people are not at all comfortable with debt in any form, and others cheerfully leverage debt to try to increase property and income. Values about money (as opposed to the nuts and bolts of finance) are probably something people are going to want to teach as a family.
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I don't think sex ed (for me anyway) ever went into much of the emotional/spiritual/cultural side of sex. It pretty well stayed in the realm of, "this is your body, this is what it does, this is what can happen physically". The most we got into the emotional side of things was "dont make fun of people for experiencing these things (wet dreams, boners, period, etc..).
But honestly, I think it's a good thing to go through the potential emotional impacts of having sex (whether young or older) and how different cultures view those things. Getting your families view is great, but the only way to be sensitive about the views of others is if you actually know about them.