Sex ed. in schools

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When used correctly, condoms are very good birth control and even better at stopping STDs. However, there's always a chance, even if it's very slim.

I take birth control. I absolutely love it.

1) After a few months, popping a pill at a certain time every day becomes second nature.
2) It doesn't "mess up your rhythm", it gives you a very solid rhythm. Some women can even predict their period start time down to the hour. Wouldn't that be nice?
3) It may ease girly-pains, but it doesn't cause them to cease.
4) Even if you forget it, no big deal, unless you're having sex, in which case, if you are using condoms there is virtually no chance of getting pregnant.

Tah-dah.

I love the pill. Along with the above reasons, it has some positive side effects- weight gain was good for me since I'm thin as a rail and it boosted my bust, it helps with acne, and I am convinced that it's a mild anti-depressant. I also think that it just helps you feel more feminine in general. I just... feel prettier and girlier. And I think it also reduced some of my body hair.

Is there nothing this wonder pill can't do?!?

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i only learned sex-ed once and that was a 30minute class in 5th grade
other then that if u want the safest sex ..
learn abstinence
or
condom / pill

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I am going to agree with chrissi on the comments she made about the pill, It is nearly second nature to take that pill after a little time, Its like getting up and brushing your teeth in the morning, Just something you do.
She also mentioned it DOES NOT through your cycle off rhytm , infact it has been proven to regulate it. The pill is one of the most effective female birthconrtols and i think the best due to the small number of side affects.

There are other Kinds of birth control for women, Such as the patch, The shot, and the ring.

The patch can cuase sever allergic reactions at the contact site, It is also not very discrete. The more you weight, The less effective it is, also the stickyness of it can wear off a little bit, or even all the way making it less, if not totally uneffective. However you dont have to remember to take a pill everyday, Just take good care of the patch and change it every so often (every 2 weeks i believe)

The shot.. it is the most effective, and has absolutlely no daily obligations, or even weekly. Once every 3 months you go in they give you a shot, and that is all. However.. It cuases an extreme number of side effects:
Bone marrow mass losses, Weight gain, Depression, Hormonal imbalancies which can cuase unsightly hair growth, Pimples.. those things. It makes your body think you are pregnant, as does most birthconrtol so you already have to deal with pregnancy symptoms. I can cause you to bleed non stop the entire time your on it, Or it can make you not even bleed a minute the entire time. It cuases problems such as polycistic ovarian syndrom.. Worst of all, Once you decided its time to have a baby or what not, it generally takes hwoever long you were on it, for it to wear off once you stopped getting it. Generally speaking no matter what it take atleast 6-8 months.
So if you were on it 2 years, it will take another 2 years for it to be fully out of your system.


O the matter of you having to do all the hard work in the form of birth control. .Its alot harder for you to wake up in the morning and just pop a pill in your mouth than it is for you to be in the heat of the moment, the guys to stop, dig out his condom, fidget with it, and even have a hard time getting it open, then putting it on, and resuming actions. Consider yourself the lucky one.




This is exactally why i think Sex ed should be taught in the school. Many parents are to uncomfortable to give their children all the fact, if they even tell them anything more than "don't have sex" I do believe however that schools need to teach sex ed. Not abstinace. Realisiticly very few people will chose to save themselves. For the many who don't They need to know what their options are, how to protect themselves, and simply just how it all works.

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What? I highly doubt that.

So if you use it for 5 years it takes 5 years to regain fertility?

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I don't think that's even possible. Your liver will pump the heck out of all the remains in no time.

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i was on the shot. research says it only takes a year or two , but if you talk to people who have been on it, what i said pretty much holds true. Get on yahoo questions and research depo provera. Then you can here what people have been on it had to go throw, not what the company says it does. Not only that but they give the depo provera shot to men in prison sometimes too! i have heard they are trying to infact get th shot off the market.

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I support Sex Ed. in a way, but in another way I don't. There should first be a sex ed sort of like "the talk" for kids not in the know about 6th grade. That should teach them the basics, like diseases and condoms and parts of the body. Then there should be a more detailed Sex Ed. the first semester of your freshman year that covers the more detailed things, including oral, anal, and samesex intercourse. I also believe in the confident question approach.

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When i was in eighth grade, we watched this video of an "Ejaculation" in slow motion.

Totally grossed me out.

Then they did a splatter-replay...
SICK.

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one thing i didnt mention previously is that though i do think we should be informed. I dont think these such videos are even nessisary at all. We had to watch a vidoe of a woman giving birth. It wasnt beautiful it was, GROSS! those are crossing over the boundries of right and wrong.

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It is logical to educate students on birth control since it is inevitable that most will come into sexual contact with another before marriage. The Church feels that birth control should not even be brought up. The Church feels that abstinence should be the only kind of birth control touched upon with students in middle and high school. This is labeled abstinence-only sex education. Studies have been performed by the World Health Organization and after analyzing several studies that promoted abstinence-only sex education, many were discredited with no concrete supportive evidence of the findings. Allegedly, the idea stemmed from the “San Marcos Miracle,” in which: Later discovered, the figures were not generated correctly/scientifically from the school counselor responsible for stating them. Furthermore, the Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. Jocelyn Elders, stated, “Education is the only vaccine we have against the AIDS virus...Abstinence-only education really does not address the full range of issues related to sexuality” (PFAW). As many know, the Church does not tolerate sex before marriage and abstinence-only supporters believe that educating minors on condoms and other forms of birth control correlate into fundamentally stating it is tolerable to have sex. So the argument sways between logic and beliefs. Religious right calls for abstinence-only while the most efficient way to reduce pregnancies is to educate minors in all aspects of birth control.

PFAW - People for the American Way

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I think they should teach more about the opposite gender than they do. I know it's more important to focus on your own gender, but part of education should be learning both sides.

They sort of explained it, but not well enough. For a while I was under the impression that males went through a cycle like females did, and that's what ejaculation was.

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LOL. Thats Hilarious.

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m3rkabik has a good point. I'm Christian, but schools need to tell kids about condoms and other protections. It may promote early sex a little bit, but I feel it is more improtant for kids to protected sex then to not have it at all. Unprotected sex can lead to pregnancy and STD's which can ruin someones life. And also, if kids wanna have sex, they'll have sex. It's stupid that schools aren't telling kids much about how to have safe sex if they're going to at all. Condoms save lives lol.

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[/generalization/] Parents these days are afraid. Afraid because they can't stand to see you grow up so fast. To them you're still their babies. The last thing that they want to happen is for you to start learning about sex and what not. [/generalization/]

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I think that everyone should be tested for STDs/HIV at a certain age, then have their information on a card people carry around like a driver's liscence. Although it may not be updated, it should have the last checkup on the card. This could reduce STDs, AIDS, and pregnancies. This could also help legalize prostitution, which, although I wouldn't have sex with or become a prostitute, I believe should be an American right.

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