Reply #32: Believe it or not, Catholic school...

[CBHagman]

...was the first place I received classes in sex education. Mind you, we were in grade school and they didn't cover contraception.

In public school they did cover contraception, and pretty frankly, though the biology teacher did decide against one educational film after an initial viewing (I never got to find out just what was in that film...:blush:).

I'm an old baby boomer, though, and when I was growing up, there was some pretty frank talk about sex and contraception even in the local newspaper. By age 14 I knew that there was no such thing as a guarantee with all the various forms of birth control.

It kills me that the media in this country revels in titillation, innuendo, suggestion, using sex to sell products, etc., but that some have a knee-jerk reaction against dealing with sex in a level-headed, unromanticized way.

Ignorance is not innocence, and I wish the politicians would develop backbones and just admit that. There are a lot of ignorant people who are also sexually active, as the writer Eda LeShan pointed out when she wrote The Roots of Crime. She interviewed prostitutes who were completely clueless about the basic functions of the human body and how to prevent conception.