At my school we're told to not have sex until we are 18. It's fine to show the benefits of abstinence and say it's the only sure way to prevent pregnancies/STI's but I think it's the parents job to tell a kid whether or not they should have sex.

Okay, so there's quite a difference between your schools and our schools.

So that being said, the way they're teaching you about it in your schools is pretty damn unrealistic. Good intentions, but in end students are being deprived of some necessary knowledge, especially since so many teens are having sex anyways.

I'm not getting on to you btw, I didn't mean to direct it at you. If you feel it has been :).

yeah a lot of schools in the US in the really conservative areas have a "don't talk about it unless it is to say you aren't going to have it" policy. i met a lot of kids while i was in uni who were seriously ignorant towards many of the issues i feel are vital.

sure, abstinence is the only sure way to ensure no pregnancy or sti's, but that is not the human condition. it is the christian condition. if it were based on human condition, then teaching kids what to expect and worry about from their bodies should be a totally natural thing.

My bad, thanks for clearing that up. :D

This is like teaching genesis...and by teaching them mean telling...

No one gets aids after they're 18.

No, No, and No

Hell no, sex is everywhere and you can't avoid it, and every parent with a brain cell should know that they should be the ones to teach their kids about it because if they don't someone else will.

Seriously, why is giving your kids the straight facts and pros and cons of sex such a difficult concept to understand?

People have always tried to enforce the belief on me that sex should be a purely reproductive thing and that the only reason god made it pleasurable is because that's the only way he could get people to do it.

Exactly.

I got the abstinence stick in middle school, teachers were tight-lipped about it and choice parts of human physics were viewed as vulgar or crude. High school couldn't have been more different, where getting laid was a matter of whose party you went to on Friday night and all the teachers knew which were the good ones.

The abstinence-only bullshit only gets you so far, especially when your hormones are playing a fucking circus during your formative years. Parents and teachers should encourage a healthy sexual development in teens, it's the only way they can be forewarned about the dangers that accompany it. Failing to establish good practices in maintaining a sexually active lifestyle ensures unsafe opportunities down the road.

Plus it's nice knowing which hole to stick your dick in if you ever manage to get there.

EDIT: Poll added. :)