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conny said:
Some parents might be but schools aren't. On the contrary, too many of them are restricting sex education to the bare minimum. I'd even go so far as to suggest that British schools don't actually teach sex at all. If they bother to teach anything, it's restricted to that mostly unwanted side-effect, reproduction. Our kids got their one and only sex education lesson in Year five and I was horrified to discover that they hadn't even been taught elementary female anatomy.
The professor touched on this too, claiming that sex education needed to be 'professionalized'. Exactly what he meant by that, he didn't have time to explain but he was right. Around forty years ago, I read an article in the old TES which described how sex education began at age seven and continued until age sixteen.
Needless to say, this wasn't happening on our side of the North Sea but in Sweden. It's high time that sex was taught properly in British schools too. This will mean having teachers who are qualified to teach the subject. And why not? Think about it. Would you be happy if the teaching of music or art or RE in your child's school was left to whoever happened to be available? OFSTED wouldn't. All too often, the miserable excuse that passes for sex education is left to the biology teacher - who is not necessarily any better suited to the job than the maths teacher.
So what happens? The kids inevitably go looking for information elsewhere. In my young days it was ill-informed word of mouth behind the proverbial bike sheds. Today's kids have the internet but the content hasn't changed; it's the same old junk and a lot more of it. No surprise then that so many are hell-bent on a mad rush to 'go all the way' as if that was the be-all and end-all of making love.
and also said:
Is that not because their only other source of information is coming from pop videos and other advertising? And guess what; that's all junk too. 'Twerking' seems to be all over the news at the moment. Now I have nothing against twerking per se - it might even be good exercise - but as far as real sex goes it's an optional extra, like the umbrella in your cocktail.
But then advertisers are only interested in selling their products and so they promote a distorted version of sex which requires you to buy stuff. (The Rolling Stones hit this scam firmly on the head almost fifty years ago.) No advertiser is ever going to tell potential customers that all they need is what nature gave them. That what they really need is each other. That real sex and real love are free.and also said:
Why am I not surprised!
No doubt your education was as basic as mine: delivered far too late in a single lesson at the age of seventeen. When I originally read that TES article, I couldn't quite believe it. How could it possibly take nine years to teach a few simple facts? I guess you can only be that stupid when you're young. joe-90 said:
In a nutshell, yes - but beware because obtaining sex by deceit is illegal in Spain. (We could do with that law here too.) What constitutes deceit? I can't answer that one but the judge will have a pretty good idea.
AndrewDavie said:
You might be onto something there.
Why shouldn't you be able to do a GCSE in sex? It would look great on a dating website. 
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Didn't oral used to be called 'o' in the vernacular?
I'd like an 'o' level.
Thought you were more likely to go for "a" level Joe.
AndrewDavie said:
I've just re-read your post and realized that I didn't quite get your meaning last time. You're suggesting a sort of sex proficiency test.
But there's a problem: how much would this 'license' cost? Governments have long had a habit of taxing anything that costs less to produce than people are prepared to pay. The one glaring exception is sex - but only because they haven't yet figured out a way to collect the revenue. There is a distinct danger that your well-intentioned proficiency test would quickly turn into a registration scheme with a whopping annual fee.
And then what? No sex-safe registration card? Sorry pal; no sex for you. PS: I quite like your 'half your age plus seven' idea.