My son, a 5th grader, had sex ed this past year. the curriculum covered puberty and the like but this, this is asinine! In what world does it seem necessary to explain oral sex to an 11 year old! Im all for kids knowing the truth about where babies come from but come on!

and as for anatomical terms..well, ive always used the correct ones with my children. think made up fluffy names are unnecessary and a bit silly but to specifically teach it in kindergarten?!?!

seriously, what are these people on?

I heard of one case where they plan on teaching it to kindergardeners. i had sex ed in 5th grade and all they talked about was what puberty was. Small childeen do not and should not need to know all about sex. With the childern i have seen though are getting worse and worse with knowing things about sex at a young age. for instance i know of a friend of mine that had sex when he was 8. i know 5 year olds that know all about sex and what giving head is and hand job and that is not right in my mind. They are children and like to copy thing so this is just opening them up do doing these things at a younger age. Maybe a real sex ed class should be taught in 7 and 8th grade because i know far too many kids that are messing around and having sex at that age

When I was in high school, I was in a play that toured schools focused on child abuse prevention. It was created in a format that had short skits, singing, dancing etc and covered topics like sexual molestation by strangers or family members, flashers, and other child abuse topics. We used the proper anatomical words for sex, and body parts and the main message was to "tell" someone if something inappropriate had happened to them. Parents were required to sign a waiver to allow their children to see this play (the kids were in grades 2-8). Beforehand, we staged evening previews of the play where parents could come watch it so they understand what their kids would be seeing. Many had issues with the language and content of the play, and used the argument "let kids be kids". To be frank, the more people hide behind this, the more you set up young children to be vulnerable and potentially ashamed and/or too terrified to tell an adult if something sexually inappropriate happened to them. Unfortunately we live in a different world than the whole "let kids be kids" mentality that worked well pre-1960. When these programs are aiming at educating kids, they are meant to empower them with the correct language and knowledge and remove the secrecy and the 'shame' element. They are not meant to 'promote' young children having sex. Kids are growing up fast these days... why not give them the tools to be safe (within reason).

Consider some of these facts on child sexual abuse and disclosure. If you make your kids afraid or ashamed of anything to do with body parts and sex, then that child is going to be a lot less likely to feel comfortable coming to you (or another adult) if someone has violated them. If they don't understand what is happening to them is inappropriate, how will they even know that they should tell someone? I felt strongly about the positive impact of the play I was involved in and I saw the first hand results when on occasion, very young children would come up to chat with us (as the actors) after it was over and admit that something "icky" had happened to them and they finally felt empowered enough to tell someone about it.

Child Sexual Abuse ~ Disclosures

Victims may be embarrassed or reluctant to answer questions about the sexual activity.
Source: Berlinger & Barbieri, 1984.

Victimization occurred before age eight for 22 percent of boys and for 23 percent of girls.
Forty-two percent of the women and thirty-three percent of the men reported never having disclosed the experience to anyone.
1 of every 7 victims of sexual assault were under age 6;
Source: Finkelhor et al., 1990.

Young victims may not recognize their victimization as sexual abuse.
Source: Gilbert, l988.

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doll you are right of course..we should be open about sex with our kids. they must know they can come to us..i know my son does. it is my rule that if he asks the question he gets the real answer no matter how uncomfortable it may make me to give it. and saying wee-wee over penis is just ridiculous.

however, we must keep things within the scope. an 11 year old does not need to know about anal sex. he needs to know about his body's changes and what they mean. he needs to know how babies are made (and not the damn stork story) and also about disease and prevention.

they must also, from a young age be taught the difference between good and bad touching but oral sex? anal sex? all the "frills" of sex so to speak..that can wait for a later date. information is power and we must arm our youth but too much too fast is also dangerous. as with all things in life we must strive to strike a balance.

The right thing, the right place, the right time. its so important to try and align these things for balance. this proposed sex ed program does not do that in the least. lets allow our kids to be kids. they only need to know what they need to know. no more, no less. Balance.

When I was in High School, we (the student body) was able to successfully change the school districts stance on sex education. Im from an extremely conservative part of Texas and the original position was abstinence only. We were able to get it changed to actual education. Job well done.

Yes it is. Knowledge is power. Especially in this instance.

My daughter who is 7 knows about intercourse. Look around- The masses are educated through the public schools- generally people are aimless and stupid because of it. I take it upon myself to educate my daughter above and beyond what the schools will provide. Besides I don't trust the schools to teach my daughter our family values about sex. Teachers could take it upon themselves to poison my child with hyper conservative values.

I have always been very sexual I started masturbating at age six. At age six I was ready to discuss why I had those feelings and that it was perfectly ok. When you observe and communicate with your child you will know what level of information you should provide them. The key here being don't let the schools be your child primary source of information.

Talking about sex does not lead to more sex.
Taking the pill does not lead to more sex.
Providing youth with condomns does not lead to more sex.
Not providing information and tools leads to stupid sex, ie disease, abortion and being vulnerable to abuse.

I had a great lover who had a sex ed class in high school where they learned about how to stimulate a woman and how men were stimulated. It was more like a -how to have good sex- sex ed class. Now lets have more of that!!!!!!!

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When I was ten years old, and my brother was eight, my parents gave us a primer on where babies come from. They did use the clinical terms and then explained them to us so we could understand as best we could. A few years later they also told my youngest brother, about the time he was seven.

I think they handled the birds-n-bees talk about as well as could be expected, especially since their own parents had not mentioned this to them, in their childhoods.

But they didn't explain cunnilingus, fellatio or anal sex. There was no talk beyond why boys and girls are different and what those basic reasons are useful for.

A year later I was listening to a friend talking about fucking, he was getting it from his older siblings who were sexually active and whose parents were split up and not involved in parenting. The older siblings were doing that chore.

Later that summer I was accosted by a 40 year old neighbor down the street, while I was swimming in his backyard pool with six of my buddies of like age.

My 36 year old father rearranged the entire fellow's physique, starting with his eyebrows, all the way down to his asshole. I knew enough at the age of eleven to know that Cleve had done things he should not have done, taken liberties no other adults would.

Both of my brothers introduced their children to the topic of sex (no frills) when those kids all hit 2nd grade, between the ages of six and seven. As they too, knew that if they didn't do so themselves, their kids would hear about it from older kids in their schools and neighborhoods.

The sad fact is that not all kids have parents, or parent's who act responsible towards their offspring.

I am not against sex/birth/STD/orientation/penetration position/oral technique education, I am against dishing out all 32 flavors of it to children, when a vanilla conversation will suffice.

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The best thing you can do for your fellow,
next to rousing his conscience, is - not to give him things
to think about, but to wake things up that are in him...
to make him think things for himself - George MacDonald

"teaching erotic art to ninth through 12th-graders"

What's next? hands-on demos?

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