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Davina talks sex
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She's hoping to do a Jamie Oliver to sex education. No, not make them organic, use her celebrity status to start a campaign to make sex education more, well educational, in schools. What do you think? Do you think it will work? Is it sad that we have to wait until celebrities bring up anything nowadays before anyone in power will listen?
Shit, should've added a link.
Shit, should've added a link.
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The Dutch are obviously doing something right that the UK needs to learn from.
Try 16. Just read that it's "effectively" 12 though. How's that?
I think awareness is a good idea, however from past experience maybe making the classes, single sex would be a good idea. I found it very hard to learn anything, because as you get in any class, some people act the fool to "impress" the opposite sex.
Isn't that the main issue though? A lot of kids are having sex when they clearly aren't mature enough to? Maybe physically they are, but not mentally, and it's easy to get pressured into something. I like the idea of a dedicated sex and relationships teacher, rather than using the science teacher like we did.
They should be taught more about the emotional side too. But tbh, you can't stop them from doing it whether they're ready or not, just try and reduce that number that are doing it too early and going about it the wrong way.
totally agree with ballerina, if a kid wants to do it, they are gonna do it regardless
take smoking for example, i was brought up well, taught right from wrong, told cigs were bad, but that didnt stop me trying one at 12
we can educate kids, but thats all, you cant live their lives for them
As for Davina, she might make the campaign more high profile now but i can't see what effect she'll have in the long run.
Well Jamie Oliver seems to have gotten his own way.
Oh, and the evidence says that the sex education system in Holland (and a number of other European countries) results in teenagers on average delaying the age at which they lose their virginity, so I don't see the risk in telling them about it making them want to do it (if that's the case, I guess we really shouldn't be teaching about all those kings that got beheaded). Treat teenagers like adults, and they'll act like adults. Go the abstinance route, and teach kids that they shouldn't be doing something, and you'll only push them to do it, as is demonstrated by the pathetic 90% failure rate of such schemes in the USA.
Oh and littleali, I think that proves my point. You had it drummed into you from a young age that smoking was bad, and you tried it regardless. This isn't what is being proposed. No-one is proposing to teach children that sex is bad, dangerous or can ruin your life.
Well time will tell if Davina has the same effect. I'm not sure what shes got to do with sex education though? It's like shes picked a campaign out of a hat or something. At least Jamie had something to do with food.
nah i understand where you're coming from, but like i said, we were educated very well, not just on sex itself, but emotions, puberty, relationships, yet girls STILL got pregnant
lack of education isnt ALWAYS the problem, kids will be kids, they'll do what they want when THEY want to
'don't have sex, because you WILL get chlamydia and die!'
They just scare you as much as they can. On our sex day we were shown videos of births and 2 teen mums came to talk to us. They strapped a belly onto one of the guys. Then we were shown loads of pictures of manky genitals and they showed us a load of caluclations...if you sleep with x amount of people then you could be catching y amount of peoples germs. It really isn't the way forward.
They did this in year 10 in the girls had some sort of talk by the school nurse - learnt sod all. Admittedly, I leanrt more from overhearing stuff (we're in the same classroom at the same time) from the Year 10 Child Care lessons.
I also seemed to have learnt more from here & my parents than I ever have done at school.
I know that we can't live kids lives for them but they deserve to have all the information available to them, especially about safe sex. I'm sure that in the past I've had unsafe sex because I didn't want to look an idiot whilst trying to put on a condom for the first time. Daft I know.
The whole thing about learning about relationships and not just sex seemed a really good idea too. I think that the sex education system over here needs completely revamping but then I would say the same about a lot of things in the world of education. We have to prioritise though and I think that would help the country as a whole.
:yes:
I had sex education for about 4 years on & off during school. All I seem to have learnt is some stuff abour periods and nothing much about sex. I don't think they mentioned anything about HIV, AIDs, protection or the emotional side of sex either.
Sounds like a good idea but how exactly can you teach emotions? Didn't see the programme, do they address it in other countries?
And some of them are just plain bizarre.
"What is the speed of sperm when it leaves the end of a man's penis during ejaculation?"
What would it benefit ANYONE to know that?
I think it's more about teaching people to talk openly about their emotions and opinions regarding sex, in order to get them to understand how they personally feel about it (and how when it comes to decision making, only they have any say about what they're comfortable doing). Even if that has no effect on the age at which people have sex, I'm sure it can only be a positive thing to have a place (other than The Site of course ) where people can openly talk about certain issues without being embarrassed.
:yes: that's exactly the question I pin-pointed.
When will a girl start having her period ?
A. When she's about 7 1/2 stone.
So does that mean a 7 1/2 stone 4 year old will start having periods ? i thought periods was all about the body maturing/hormones etc, not weight.