about Sexual Education...

One of the many problems in the debate over abortion is the fact people get pregnant in the first place. many talk about birth control, but what of personal responsibility and understanding of sex, pregnancy, and child birth in general? What about the sexual education taught to our children in school, or the lack thereof?

Many beleive that teaching children abstiance is the way, the only way, and everything else is playing dice with chemicals. Others say that properly educated children informed for not only abstianace, but also personal responsibility, contriceptives, and understanding of the remifications of sexual behavior would provide a better well rounded understanding and ability to choose their own sexual path.

what do you think about how children should be taught? at what age? in the school or in the home? and what should sex be taught as? As a negative -something to steer clear of and avoided till 'grown up'- or a positive -something wonderful, natural, but not without its ups, downs, and risks?

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"Governmentschmuvernment. Sex-ed benefits people for the greater good and allows them to make informed decisions and take responsibility for their actions."

No, people are able to make informed decisions and take responsibility for their actions without sex-ed.  Sex-ed is not necessary to make informed and responsible decisions.

"There's nothing wrong with that. The only people whom see that wrong are the Right religious loonies and those screaming 'But the government will have power!' at the tops of their lungs."

Hahahaha.  I'm not religious, nor am I a 'right winger'  (I'm a libertarian), but you know, I'd much rather be called a right winger than a left winger.

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." - George Bernard Shaw

People want sex-ed because they dread the responsibility of having to handle their own education themselves.  The lack of sex-ed does not mean sex-ed would not exist, it means that people will have to take on this responsibility as individuals.