In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.
Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.
Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.
I cannot believe that my generation may very well have been the last one to have sex education in schools that was truly the complete and total package. I mean what are we doing? Are we in the future, but acting like it's The Dark Ages?
There really is something raw about sexuality that's real and good and we must continue to learn to not be ashamed of it. But - we have to honor the reality of practicing safer sex.
We need sex education in schools, but we need it at home first. We need parents to learn the names of the teachers who are teaching their children. We need families to question day-care centers, to question other children and their own as to what goes on.
We must encourage people to get educated, to get tested, to get involved in the fight against AIDS.
Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.
Sex education has to do with what's in people's head.