tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3310141367986647635.post7360909703755598229..comments2024-01-25T12:15:23.886+00:00Comments on aaru tuesday: A few words about sex education.thenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11851538869806389235noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3310141367986647635.post-9593182992512675632008-03-20T05:21:00.000+00:002008-03-20T05:21:00.000+00:00SunflowerP - you're dead right, and I hadn't even ...SunflowerP - you're dead right, and I hadn't even thought of parsing 'morality' that way. Thanks for that. (Though I can't help but wonder what proportion of the other readers/listeners understood the word the same way I did).<BR/><BR/>I need to add both dw3t-hthr and zombie z to my blogroll, too ><thenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11851538869806389235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3310141367986647635.post-25437129664648091922008-03-19T02:12:00.000+00:002008-03-19T02:12:00.000+00:00I think that'd be "moral" as in "mores", which are...I think that'd be "moral" as in "mores", which are social (in the broader sense of supporting the social fabric, not the narrower one usually referenced in the phrase "social skills"), rather than "moral" as in "ethical".<BR/><BR/>That's just nitpicking your nitpick (though I think failure to grasp the first sense of "moral" is a factor in the overall problem of shoddy sex-ed) as a way of waving SunflowerPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15069913788437731669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3310141367986647635.post-34443678749117659312008-03-19T01:49:00.000+00:002008-03-19T01:49:00.000+00:00Yeah, I was enrolled there for a summer course (du...Yeah, I was enrolled there for a summer course (due to the intervention of said friend in Smyrna) as part of some small GA college association pooling together to do a study abroad program.<BR/><BR/>I have to say, travelling with American students sucks. (Perhaps the more so because she and I, being Too Crazy To Graduate, were old enough to drink legally in the US, unlike everyone else on the Dw3t-Hthrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11584245136407694660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3310141367986647635.post-3161043230916869292008-03-17T15:16:00.000+00:002008-03-17T15:16:00.000+00:00Oh, mybad. >Oh, mybad. >< (there's a Georgia college listed on your Lj profile.)thenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11851538869806389235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3310141367986647635.post-20447521589015870472008-03-17T03:22:00.000+00:002008-03-17T03:22:00.000+00:00Montgomery County, Maryland. Just north/northwest...Montgomery County, Maryland. Just north/northwest of Washington, DC.<BR/><BR/>What I got was all het-based fearmongering, but the news articles I found when doing research around Ren's Blogging for Sex Ed Day thing suggested that at least the orientation information has improved in the past umpty-lump years.<BR/><BR/>While I have a good friend in Smyrna, I've never lived in Georgia. The heat Dw3t-Hthrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11584245136407694660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3310141367986647635.post-66219608614784886702008-03-15T23:36:00.000+00:002008-03-15T23:36:00.000+00:00Applause for said county; can I ask whereabouts it...Applause for said county; can I ask whereabouts it is? ('cause I think at one point in your life you were right here on the north side of Atlanta, mm?)<BR/><BR/>What I had was ENTIRELY about PiV, big help for the queer kids there. The only mention of other acts was in the anti-AIDS class when the teacher said <I>'the anus is not designed to have a penis in it'</I>. Personally, I'm not positive thenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11851538869806389235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3310141367986647635.post-77598049336333612922008-03-15T07:07:00.000+00:002008-03-15T07:07:00.000+00:00I'm thirty; the only sex ed I got in school was ba...I'm thirty; the <I>only</I> sex ed I got in school was basic mechanics and fearmongering in eighth grade, two weeks. My parents gave me books and told me to ask if I had questions; they didn't give me what I needed to know, but they beat the fearmongering.<BR/><BR/>Though these days the county I got that sex ed in is occasionally in the news because of insisting on adding the actual existence ofDw3t-Hthrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11584245136407694660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3310141367986647635.post-24538662093962791242008-03-13T21:58:00.000+00:002008-03-13T21:58:00.000+00:00According to my 32-year-old housemate, sex ed was ...According to my 32-year-old housemate, sex ed was pretty good when she had it. The 23-year-old housemate says it was a mixture of basic biology and long harangues about the risks of sex, and mentioned condoms only briefly and more arcane BC gadgets not at all.<BR/><BR/>Bush Administration, won't you just die already? :/thenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11851538869806389235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3310141367986647635.post-12398053894718255282008-03-13T21:29:00.000+00:002008-03-13T21:29:00.000+00:00The state of American sex ed nowadays scares me. S...The state of American sex ed nowadays scares me. So much for separation of church and state...<BR/><BR/>/me blissfully remembers back to her own awkward high school classes.Deehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09083413251959772626noreply@blogger.com