Should parents teach their kids about Sex Ed or just let them learn themselves?

[Venti Quattro]

I think that parents should teach their kids sex ed. In this age where sex starts at an earlier age and teens just fuck off the charts, parents should have enough balls to face that fact and teach their kids about the proper ways instead of them having their kids learn it from their bf/gf, O-N-S or FUBU.

[Blake]

the playground, tbh

[DarkReign]

No. Nor should parents teach their children about fire being hot, proper technique to crossing a road or sticking metal objects in light sockets.

The world's better without most of them anyway.

[Frenzy]

Yes. Hard to teach them about sex with out encouraging them however.(if you prefer that) They will learn eventually of course. My parents never told me about sex and I learned about it from a porn magazine from a friend in 5th grade. But I was a bit too sexual in h.s.(what guy wasn't) course I didn't think that then.

[easjer]

Of course a parent should teach their kid about sex and about appropriate sexual behavior (for whatever morals they happen to be teaching their kid) and about appropriate birth control.

It's no one else's responsibility to do so, and letting them learn on their own makes it more likely that they'll get pregnant or catch a disease because their learning is limited.

[Stringer_Bell]

Hard to teach them about sex with out encouraging them however.

"Sex can be dangerous and should be done with someone you love, but tbh it feels so fucking good and some bitches are more timid in the sack than others that you might want to try out different women to see what you like."

I learned how people have sex and where babies come from in the 6th grade when I was exposed to public kids for the first time. In 7th grade I saw a vagina in a magazine. In 8th grade I started playing the game. Logical progression tbh...and all my folks said was to make sure I fought for custody of any babies or else the bitch was gonna be fucking with me longer than one night.

[mrsmaalox]

I voted yes. And I hate secret polls :madrun

[PM5K]

At what age though? I love my V at a very young age and I want to have that talk with my son, but you don't want to do it too late, or too early.

[Chachachango]

its the parents responsibility to teach their kids. I think the reason theres so many teen moms is because their parents didn't talk to them about sex and how to be safe.

[El Chorizo]

its the parents responsibility to teach their kids. I think the reason theres so many teen moms is because their parents didn't talk to them about sex and how to be safe.

Es verdad.

[Phenomanul]

IF a parent truly cared for their child they shouldn't fret about enlightening their child about the dangers/wonder of sex at the *proper age... intimidating challenge, perhaps. But in the long run a parent teaches the child for the child's sake.

The caveat, of course, being that every child develops/matures at a different age. So then a parent that KNOWs their child, should know when they've reached that *proper age...

[John Basedow]

I learned from porn...thought everybody did, tbh.

[Dex]

We actually had sex-ed classes in school, as early as elementary (in SA NEISD). It was always awkward and full of giggles, but it at least approaches kids with topics like abstinence, protection, and STDs in a professional setting. I wonder if that is something that is becoming more commonplace these days.

Still, I think the responsible thing to do these days is to discuss it with your children at some point. We live in a sexually-charged society and it's either they hear it reasonably, or they figure it out on their own from the media.

I'll be damned if I know when is the right time or way to approach that. I'm expecting that to be in my How to Be a Father book that I get issued immediately after childbirth....

....right?

[easjer]

At what age though? I love my V at a very young age and I want to have that talk with my son, but you don't want to do it too late, or too early.

Well, that's the question.

I learned about the biological aspect of reproduction around 6 or 7, from a cartoon called How Babies Are Made (or some such).

My parents certainly didn't sit me down at that point and talk about sex in terms of emotional impact or physical protection. It was something that adults only did. End of story.

As I got older, they talked about sex a bit more, but generally still in terms of 'adults only' - and school started discussing reproductive growth because it was getting to be about that time.

I think sixth grade was the first introduction to sex ed in terms of things like STDs and such. After that, my parents didn't much talk about it except to say that you should wait until you were married. I grew up in a conservative Christian church, and that probably formed the bulk of my sexual education as a teenager. Sex was for married people. Because I was all committed to that, I don't think my parents worried about teaching me anything else, and they covered birth control in high school health and child development classes.

I think that it depends on the kid, honestly. Some are ready for that at 12 and some aren't. But I definitely intend to be more upfront with my kids and get the message of safe sex across.

ETA - explaining about the emotional impact of sex is a much harder thing, I think, and it's different between men and women. Most of my girlfriends would say they wish they'd had more experience or a physical-only relationship or two before getting involved with their husbands or long-term partners. Most of us didn't because we were brought up to think sex was marriage only and vaguely shameful and girls who gave it up were sluts or whatever.

The intricacies there are the things that I am not sure how parents navigate. In the end, I expect that is really the area where you just have to live life and figure it out for yourself (or allow your kids to do).

[Kamala]

My mom had the discussion with me after a very special episode of Little House on the Prairie about incest or some such.

[MavDynasty]

tbh parents never talked about it with me but we learned about the safe sex shit in 6th grade. it was funny and everyone was laughing but the stats they gave us were pretty convincing that girls are dumb bitches and guys are too fucking stupid to use a condom.