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In reply to the discussion: My daughter has just finished her abstinence-only sex ed at school [View all]xenocleia
(1 post)Back in the '60s my school delegated sex education to the biology teacher, with the result that we ended up drawing diagrams that looked like soda fountains and being taught about amoebas and rabbits. We didn't quite know how to connect the information that the biology teacher didn't let her daughter stay out after 10pm. Our curiosity being healthily aroused by the confusing information from the biology lesson, we then followed this up in the traditional British place for learning what they don't teach you in class: behind the bike sheds. The information we exchanged there was the usual mix of the biologically and physically impossible, true, salacious and funny. Some thought the true bits were impossible. As no parental notes were required for classes held behind the bike sheds, everybody could benefit from the information exchange.
So, the solution for America is get kids to cycle to school and demand bike sheds to keep their bikes protected from the weather. That way American kids will be slimmer, fitter and healthier and profit from a better sex education.