This reminds me of a tongue-in-cheek post I made to my own LJ awhile back, having to do with sex. The comments I got absolutely shocked me. I had friends telling me that they knew guys who used candy wrappers as condoms, and girls who thought that if they shook up a bottle of Dr Pepper and used it as a douche after sex that they wouldn't get pregnant. THIS is what a lack of sex education has done. Interestingly, the European friends came back with a 'you're kidding, right?' attitude about the lack of sex education in this country. They couldn't believe it. One mentioned that she'd had to learn to put a condom on a banana at age 14. While American prudes may find this outlandish, ask them to explain why countries that offer sex education have such low incidents of teen pregnancies as compared to the US. It's...I just have no words for the attitudes in this country.
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Date: 2008-05-09 05:32 am (UTC)