Posted by alexandra_k on May 15, 2005, at 17:28:09
In reply to Re: Would it help to teach some CBT for kids in school » alexandra_k, posted by Tamar on May 15, 2005, at 15:40:23
> This sounds really good. I don't think there's anything like that near me.
Probably only at university.
> > All that is a bit politically loaded in the US...
> Well, everywhere really... I can't think of many places where abortion and corporal punishment aren't politically loaded.Oh. I mean informing kids of relevant facts. Some people think that you shouldn't tell kids about sex because then they will go out and do it. That teaching them what it is etc is seen to condone it. To make contraception available to them is seen to condone it. To say that they need to make up their own mind is frowned upon by people who think there is only one right answer. So often the teaching isn't focused on information (and the critical assessment of that information) it is focused on attempting to instill morals (e.g., Don't have sex before marriage.)
>Although I suspect Sweden has it all figured out.
Not ALL of it, I suspect.
But I think they do pretty well.
Yeah.
> > Condoms being porous and all ;-)
> Hah! I know all about that! Having planned two children, we recently welcomed number three into the family. From now on it'll be double thickness contraception...Ah.
They can break.
But thats not about them being porous.
Thats about them breaking.
You are also supposed to use spermicide with them.
(Lots of people don't know that).
It also pays not to be tooo vigourous.
You should know if something has gone wrong.
That gives you time to get the morning after pill.
Or to be on the pill or depo or have a diaphram as an emergency back up incase of breakage.I was thinking...
I was thinking...About the church in a certain state who teaches that all synthetic material is porous. Condoms are made from synthetic material. Therefore condoms are porous. Therefore the sperm just goes right on through the material and people get STD's and get pregnant. Therefore it is pointless to use condoms and one should be abstinent before marriage otherwise one is like a used toothbrush. And nobody wants to use another persons toothbrush because you don't know where it has been.
(The point is that just because something is porous doesn't mean that EVERYTHING can get through it. A balloon is porous but it holds water.
So....
The kids aren't properly informed about how STD's are transmitted.
They don't realise that oral sex and sodomy counts as a sexual act with respect to STD's at the very least.
And they don't think that condoms are of any use anyway.Pretty high STD rates over there.....
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