How long until they replace driving lessons with a page that says "not driving a car is the only 100% effective method to prevent car crashes"?

So what does it include?

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"Never touch your penis or angels will kill you." - Stan Smith

For everything else there's pornhub.

The old 8th grade sex education curriculum in Orange County, while promoting abstinence, acknowledged that some students are sexually active. It provided information on how to prevent unintended pregnancy and protect against STDs if students engaged in sexual activity. This information has been deleted from the new curriculum.

The old Orange County 8th grade curriculum also included information about the various kinds of birth control, their efficacy, and whether or not they helped reduce the risk of STDs. This information has also been removed.

In Orange County's new 8th grade curriculum, there are no descriptions of the different forms of birth control and no explanation of which forms of birth control are effective in preventing the transmission of STDs. This is a particularly important issue in Florida, which is currently "reporting more HIV diagnoses than almost any other state."

These are the kinds of changes you get when you have people developing curriculum without actually understanding any of the evidence, and just going off vibes.

"No sex = no pregnancy, surely the kids will understand and follow our instructions on this!"

"No sex = no need for birth control, so why tell them about it?"

It baffles me how stupid some members of our society can be.

I've hear about New Hampshire before, but where is this New Florida supposed to be?

The worst thing I ever read about the issues about destroying sexual education is that it also leaves children unable to actually describe any abuse, because they don't know what's going on, what anything is called, and what is and isn't a "good" touch.

I'm not saying Florida Republicans are in any way wanting that outcome, but you have to at least wonder why they're so concerned about this.

I imagine that Florida is to Americans, what America is to the rest of the world.

What remains is a discussion of the benefits of abstinence and a cursory review of various sexually transmitted diseases.

Oh hey, that’s the sex ed we got in my school. Along with at least 4 pregnant girls I knew of under 17 in a very small rural school. The youngest was 13.

If the people “teaching” us ever connected those facts, it wasn’t apparent to me.

I used to think, 'oh, people against sex ed just don't understand the good things it does! Later first pregnancies, protection from abuse, std prevention...if they understood, of course they'd be on board!' Haha, oh younger me.

I still do think there are lots of people who come around, if some source they trust reaches them, but I was mistaken to think certain other people were actually against child abuse and teenage pregnancy.

I vaguely remember the "sex ed" video our Catholic elementary school showed as an optional parent/kid evening event. The most direct it got about sex was a line drawing of a cow and a bull, then a dotted line arrow appeared from the bull's crotch area to the cow's, as the narrator said, "The male inserts his penis into the vagina of the female..." then stuff about the sperm fertilizing the egg. We were left completely clueless until we figured out the details by trial and error in high school.

If you don’t teach your kids, life will, and experience isn’t nearly so patient nor kind.

Also if we could please stop obsessing with children and sex in these regressive states.

Removing the anatomy portion of sex ed is absurd, but we'll just file it under the same "everything I don't like is porn" reasoning they've been using. And at least I can understand how someone can think that teaching about birth control only encourages sex.

But what the actual fuck can anyone say to defend removing any discussion about consent‽ I honestly can't understand it. There's literally no reason not to cover it unless you object to the idea that rape and molestation are bad.

What's next, teaching kids that strangers in vans have the best candy? That adults will often reward those who give special favors? The importance of keeping uncomfortable experiences a secret?

Comprehensive sex education prevents more abortions than bans. I know this. You know this. And red states know this. Their bans have nothing to do with protecting life. It's all about reintroducing women suffrage.

This is how we get crap like "soaking", can't wait for what ever ludicrous thing is next.