Sex-ed????

My school didn't bother with it all seeing as half of my year was already pregnant...

Well, I went to sex-ed in two states and in Florida, they were very heavy on contraception and contraceptive myth-busting.

In North Carolina they kind of talked about contraception, but mostly went on about anorexia, suicide, and the male and female sexual organs. For the record, our school had the highest rate of teen pregnancy in the county, but not much suicide and our cheerleaders were pretty plump.

Abstinence education is bullshit, especially among the young, and it has been FOREVER. Teens having sex is NOTHING NEW. My Mother taught me everything I needed to know about contraception and I have often found myself explaining to grown adults what Plan B does, or where you would go to get inexpensive birth control or consultation for adoption or abortion.

The information is OUT THERE and EASILY accessible but if people don't even know that there is any information to begin with or that anything is available for them to seek then it's a wasted cause for them. I have literally seen generations of families Grandmother, Mother, Daughter, that had no idea what some of these things were. And some teens are embarassed to ask their parents for birth control too! My Mother would have rather me asked for birth control than tell her that I am pregnant - she would have rather me not had sex to begin with but my Mother was realistic. Not very many parents are, unfortunately.

The thing is, abstinence just doesn't work when it's solely taught. There's a fair correlation with the parts of the country/world where different types of sex education are taught and rates of teen pregnancy. I can never ever fathom why parents want their child to be completely ignorant of information about risks they might face when in almost every other aspect of life the dangers are overstated. It does my head in.

We got put with a random person and had sex

I never went to a program. I was given a book and expected to learn all I needed from it.

I remember we mostly talked about abstinence and STDs in sex-ed.

Although personally, I always thought the STD part of sex-ed was amusing cause we got to watch bad, but still entertaining videos about them.

I voted OTHER, we never had sex-ed in my school.

I watched a borderline porn video of naked body's and the process of sexual reproduction, luckily they separated the guys and girls into different rooms.

A lame one in health class in middle school. They showed pictures of STD's and gross shit...