Reply #12: I think 7th grade

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

I remember some sort of film that showed a diagram of what happened to start reproduction-it told me nothing about STDs, or anything at all about contraception. My mother gave me a pamphlet about menstruation and at the same time told me not to get pregnant because it would 'disgrace the family'. Neither she nor the school told me a thing about relationships or how to detect a sexual predator. I was nearly raped at age 17 because of this ignorance (a man stopped me while I was walking to my grandmother's and asked for directions; I stupidly got into his car-no nobody had told me not to accept rides from strangers! The only thing that saved me was that I told him my age-he literally dumped me out of his car and zoomed off). Everything about sex was hush hush and people who talked about it, especially my family, were very embarressed about it. I literally didn't learn anything about it until I was married.