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Nobody tells people not to have sex, the strict groups and parents only tell the kids to wait until married to avoid sexual diseases and other stuff that can easily begin a long topic.
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What about drinking? I'm 15 and I had half a Mike's a couple days ago. I say drinking age for designated areas with a Minor's Pass should be 13. Unattended Wine (Wine only) should be 18, everything else 21.
But this is sex. Sorry.
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When I was about your age, my parents let me have a few drinks too, and really it was no big deal because they were there. Making a minor's pass for drinking would be a bit unnecessary - I mean, if parents are going to let you have a drink, they're going to do it, regardless of whether or not there's governmental approval of it.
That being said, I am a firm supporter of the 21 drinking age. I wasn't when I was younger, but now that I've lived in a country where the drinking age is 18, I can see what kids drinking too much at that age does to them. There's police raids outside bars in some parts of the country because 18, 19 year old kids are drinking too much and fighting in the bars and on the streets, there's under 21s running around on the streets at night, drunk, wandering into the middle of the road, etc. It's just better to have a bit tighter restrictions on that sort of thing. That isn't to say there shouldn't be education about it, but yeah, now I'm rambling haha.
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Honestly, I was fine with the way they taught us, but it's because, as an adult, I have the libido of an amoeba, so...
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As a nearly-18-year-old boy, I obviously am being taken over by hormones and have a strong desire to have sex. However, the only thing that's bad about sex is that if you do it wrong, someone will end of pregnant or with herpes/AIDs, or both.
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BALLSACK.
...are we doing something here?
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PENIS NIPPLES
I haven't the foggiest :I
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Yup! Gotta take responsible actions in that sort of thing, it's all part of being an adult.
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Especially because the more you say "don't do it" the more we'll think "do it."
Currently I have health and we have to learn about a lot of stuff, not just sex but drugs and alcohol and child birth and pregnancy and a lot of good stuff that would be important to know. But my teacher, instead of educating us on it, just hands out packets and rants about how we're all bound to screw up our lives...
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Yes. I just sit in the back of the classroom and make penis jokes during health now...
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I agree.
When I took sex ed, my teacher didn't really teach my class about sex, but mainly about the consequences of premarital sex. Sure, she taught us about contraception, but she told us the negatives/bad side effects about it. I remember she passed out this packet for this one project (that consisted of giving a plastic infant powered by a computer chip that cried all night no matter what you did to sooth it to freaking 13 year olds) that asked us "What are your plans for the future (regarding sex)?". Just about everyone of us were sort of forced into answering "I will save myself for marriage". (most of us won't though lol)
But, young people will have sex no matter what; they're curious and their hormones are screaming at them. We just need to be smart and careful about it.
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I want to be a health teacher just so I can teach kids actual sex ed and not just "derp herp I'm not allowed to teach you guys this sawwy."
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We'll someones improving making animated stamps.
I think telling kids/teenagers having sex is fine as long as it's protected, but unprotected? Not really D:
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Agreed. Especially teenagers, tell them not to do it and they do it.
I also hate it when parents get mad at swear words in a movie.
1. If it bothers them that much they should have watched the movie themselves first before showing it to the kids
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2. It's their reaction that tells the kids about the swear word, not the word itself. To the kids it's just another funny word they don't understand.
That kind of went off topic....
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Lol that's alright - yeah, I don't really get it when parents get mad about swearing in movies - like you said, it's up to them to be the responsible - ahem - PARENT in the situation, and check things out before showing it to their kids. XD
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A parent complaining about the movie is like a parent giving their kids alcohol and complaining when they get drunk.
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Definitely agreed. I think abstinence-only sex ed and parents refusing to talk about sex with their children are the reason people get sex education from porn.
Porn, next to fundie fuckwits and other batshit-for-brains individuals, is the worst place to get information on sex and relationships.
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"Porn, next to fundie fuckwits and other batshit-for-brains individuals, is the worst place to get information on sex and relationships."
This, this is so true. SO true.
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Yeah, and I also think porn in general does NOT help promote equality amongst humans of all genders, body types and ethnicities. I'm not anti-porn, I just think that 1) it's a bad place to get information and 2) the sex industry needs an overhaul to ensure fair and equal treatment for people within that industry.
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It's true, most people tend to focus on certain types of porn so you get the largely accepted views on women and men - the women must be like THIS and the men must be like THAT. I mean, it does its job, gets people aroused and leaves them satisfied, but it definitely isn't good at all for anyone to learn things from - least of all how relationships are meant to be. It also establishes impossible sexual expectations of peoples' partners to a degree, by I guess planting the idea that if my girlfriend can't bend this direction while I'm going at her from that angle, then the sexual experiences are not going to be as stimulating or as satisfying as those that the actors are experiencing in porn.
I don't know very much about the inner workings of the sex industry, but I'm sure there is always room for improvement in anything. One of the things I've believed for a while now is that prostitution should be legalized - and regulated - so as to protect the rights and safety of the men and women who would choose to enter such a profession, as well as for other reasons.
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Yeah. I really think it should come with disclaimers just like wrestling and extreme sports. "Don't try this at home" and "results not typical", that sort of thing.
I also think there just needs to be more education on relationships and bodily autonomy for everyone--starting with little kids. Currently, people get the message that saying "no" is rude and, well...you know that just leads to people being pressured into sex they don't want.
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Haha, that's an interesting idea. And while I do agree there needs to be more education in those things for kids - I do feel that it should be firstly the parents' responsibilities, and that the education from schools and such should be viewed mostly as a safety net. 
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Yeah. A lot of people also do not understand that babies are not dolls and living through your kids is just not gonna work.
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If I could, I would marry your signature/statements. 
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