"They're teaching kids how to have and enjoy sex, and even same-sex sex, how to pleasure themselves.

[GGoss]

Watch: Lauren Boebert wants 'comprehensive sex ed' banned from public schools - RawStory

United States Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) called for totally abolishing sex education during an interview at this weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland.

Link: https://www.rawstory.com/watch-lauren-boebert-wants-comprehensive-ed-banned-from-public-schools/

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[LakeArenal]

1. Wake up LB. Because of your cult, public schools don't teach anything comprehensively anymore.

[Meadowoak]

2. If only Boeberts mother would have been banned from having sex.

[Solomon]

31. You're killing me!

[Meowmee]

60. lol 😹

[Walleye]

3. Someone should ask her if she was taught how to masturbate or if she taught herself

Since she is married to a registered sex offender. I’m tired of these trashy people

[Ocelot II]

4. My recollection of sex ed in school - such as it was -

was some really basic anatomy and hygiene explained cursorily to a bunch of embarrassed kids who would rather be anywhere else. There was no discussion of how to do it, let alone how to enjoy it. And although that was a long time ago, I figure it's probably a lot the same now. How to do sex is something all animals figure out very quickly without instruction. Sex ed is important because it teaches how to avoid some of the negative side-effects.

[Earth-shine]

5. Same-sex sex?

You mean homosex?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. If that actually was the curriculum, you'd have less kids searching out porn and getting bad

information off the internet.

[woodsprite]

32. Probably would have less uptight, prudish, and closeted republicans too. nt

[WhiskeyGrinder]

39. lol

[rubbersole]

7. Damn, I wish I hadn't skipped so many classes...

..then I might have needed glasses. 🤪

[Jerry2144]

8. I know. And the money I could have saved on

Razors for my palms…

[ret5hd]

17. Pro tip: hedge clippers.

[Jerry2144]

21. Thanks

I’ll give them a try. The palm hair got really thick in my teens

[Oneironaut]

9. Wtf. This is more ridiculous than the 90's Satanist panic.

It seems like Conservatives who believe this abandoned all common sense. Educating about Birth control doesn’t mean they’re doing this other shit. What a weirdo.

[haele]

10. Is she talking about the 6th grade "welcome to puberty" hygiene classes or

Or the (depending on the school district) health and relationship classes high school Juniors sometimes get where developing healthy intimate relationships are discussed.
Schools where sexual health and relationships are discussed tend to have lower incidents of teen pregnancy and sexual assault or abuse.
Just saying.

Haele

[woodsprite]

34. I had that in 4th grade (the Welcome to Puberty class) because I needed it in 4th grade.

Talk about being singled out. I was the only 4th grader in that class. Weird. At least the school nurse was very open and welcomed me in her office to discuss issues if I needed to. That was in the early 70s in elementary school. That must have been so hard for my mom. She was not really an open person or one who felt comfortable talking about sex. She actually went to the principal and asked that I be allowed to join the class.

I was thinking about that when I heard DeSantis wanted to expand the "don't say gay" bill and restrictions on teaching sexuality and gender issues up through 8th grade.

[walkingman]

11. And that's a bad thing? Really?

[LuckyCharms]

12. Young people should be taught...

to stay away from perverts who whip their dicks out in bowling alleys.

[inthewind21]

13. How to

enjoy sex? Wait. WTF?

[GGoss]

15. Shhh...

it's a secret

[LuckyCharms]

16. You're supposed to enjoy it????

[calguy]

26. Who knew?

[Hugh_Lebowski]

14. Someone should tell her to her face that it's factual that sex-ed in schools

Reduces unwanted teen pregnancies and abortions.

We've had years to study the numbers, and it's pretty conclusively proven at this point.

Course we know how wingnuts like Bimboebert here hate actual facts, logical arguments, critical thinking, etc.

Feel like we're back in the 70's, I remember these arguments back then, which is about when it started in a lot of places.

My parents gave me 'the talk' and the book 'What's Happening to Me?' when I was 8 or 9 years old, and I was never really banned from looking at my stepdad's Playboys as a kid. The Joy of Sex and The Happy Hooker were on the bookshelf.

I knew a LOT before sex ed in school came around, put it like that

[GGoss]

19. Oh Hell... My Mom And My Sisters Had This On Our Coffee Table !!!

Racy stuff.

[Tickle]

27. ah the book LOL

I remember the "book" only to well 😂

[GGoss]

35. It Was EVERYWHERE...

My house, neighbor's house, girlfriend's house, Tower Books, Barnes & Noble...

It had quite the impact.

[kimbutgar]

37. Had this book my Mother brought me in high school.

[MadameButterfly]

57. I'm a bit older so I relied on the Kinsey Report

which was controversial but without it I wouldn't have been enjoying anything. Because of all the warnings about getting a bad reputation, etc. from my mom and society. I mourn all the relationships I messed up before I got a hold of that book.

We don't all figure it out by ourselves, we get lots of wrong messages.
I worry about the new wave of censorship.

[GGoss]

63. You Make A Really Important And Valuable Point

Thank you.

[CTyankee]

59. Yep I left that out in the living room. It was put to a lot of use.

Our paperback copy looked pretty used after a while...

[LuckyCharms]

20. I never got the talk and I taught myself how to

masturbate before any sex ed.

I didn't know what the hell happened, and I freaked out because I thought I broke my penis and that I would never be able to urinate again.

[newdayneeded]

44. According to Boebert. the teacher

dims the lights, whips it out, and ma-bates right in front of the students. Ok class, tomorrow Mrs. Smith will join us and we'll demonstrate the dos and donts of the missionary position.....quiz on Friday!

[Hugh_Lebowski]

53. Yeah, pretty sure they don't teach about buttplugs in public schools

Possibly lube as it has medical advantages in some cases, but highly doubtful that's commonly discussed unless a student asks questions about it.

In my book, a properly equipped boudoir stocks a variety of purpose-specific lubricants

[Coventina]

51. All they need is this song:

[GGoss]

64. That Was Excellent !!! - Thank You !!!

[patphil]

18. Ah the good old 1950's where kids learned about sex from each.

So first we ban abortion and birth control, and then we leave kids to find out about sex on their own.
What could go wrong?

[Marcus IM]

29. At the same time ob/gyn shortages because of legal fears.

America is not a developed nation.

[PCIntern]

22. I have been made to understand that her husband

and she are opening a series of sex ed kiosks at bowling alleys, arcades, and malls. At these kiosks males will expose themselves to females, and everyone will giggle about it following a payment of $40 on the credit card. At each experience, one of the males and one of the females will wed.

[calguy]

23. This from the girl who got knocked-up in high school?

Do as they say... Not as they do.

[JanLip]

33. Hey

Don’t knock knocked up in high school.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

42. Objectively-speaking, for her, it worked out better than like 99% of all HS pregnancies

She did marry the father, they've been together for 17 years IIRC, had 4 kids and opened a business together, and now she's a US Congresswomen.

So there's a certain irony to her complaining in this way.

Which is always lost on wingnuts

[hlthe2b]

24. Better they all go down to the bowling ally and learn from your drunk, exposed husband, eh?

As much as I detest MTG, Boebert is doing her damnedest to catch up with her.

[Initech]

25. Yeah I'm going to let a barely educated dolt like Boebert lecture me on education.

Nice try, MAGA morons.

[louis-t]

28. Con-servatives have been whining about this since the '60s.

Nothing new under the sun.

[mobeau69]

30. I learned about sexual intercourse like everybody else back in the day,

from friends.

By the time we got to sex Ed we pretty much knew it all. The sex Ed teachers just tried to scare the shit out of us about STDs.

[RobinA]

50. I Learned About It

from all the books I read off the banned book list.

[kimbutgar]

36. Says the women who dropped out of high school

How would she know if she wasn’t in school?

That said last week I was subbing in a split 4/5 grade class and the 5th graders were pulled out to have a class that explained the differences in boys and girls bodies, what is what is going on in their bodies during puberty, the instructor even passed out pads to girls while explaining monthly periods. I thought this was great and it took the unknown out of ones changes in bodies as they grow. No sexual things were covered.

So STFU you stupid high school dropout idiot. ,

[JHB]

40. And the Commandment against Bearing False Witness is ignored yet again

[roamer65]

41. Non-procreational safe sex should be strongly encouraged in all forms.

1. Safe sex means better control of STD’s.
2. Safe sex means better population control.

[Beaverhausen]

43. Isn't her 17 year old son marrying the 17 year old he impregnated?

she needs to shut the fuck up.

[blueinredohio]

46. I haven't heard that one.

[Beaverhausen]

48. I think I read it here at DU

I googled and this is the only link I found

https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/lauren-boebert-is-going-to-be-a-36-year-old-memaw.5186279/

[blueinredohio]

54. Thanks

[bluestarone]

47. She's just mad because

She FAILED that class!!

[RobinA]

49. I Certainly Missed That

My run-of-the-mill public schools didn't have that... Damn. I always wondered why the Catholic schools kids knew more about that stuff than we did.

[Samrob]

52. Her lying comments are more X-rated than any sex education course. nt

[Initech]

55. I wish news places would stop with the clickabit crap.

No, I don't want to "WATCH". We all know that Boebert is a blithering idiot who will say anything if it gets her likes and street cred with the MAGA religious right cult.

[Midnight Writer]

56. Kids will have sex, whether they know anything about it or not.

It is best if they know the basics. And it is essential that they have open, shameless access to birth control.

[IcyPeas]

58. yeah, they should learn about it in a bowling alley instead. your husband can teach the class.

[Meowmee]

61. 😹

[lame54]

62. I'm with her...

It should stay in the bowling alleys