See? sex is taboo (until a certain age at least, as it may be the case many times) in nearly every culture in the world. It amazes me.
Oh, what book was that? Yeah, is common to hear "Oh, I know something about it" to then learn that something might be too big a word to describe the amount of knowledge they actually have, it happened during the lecture, those kids were far more versed on abortive methods than contraceptive methods, hell they had that more clear than the "how to" for the pregnancy itself. I was really impressed (in the wrong way) by that. Heh, yeah, there were a lot of eww faces in the audience as well when descriptions came along.
I agree, better to have an awkward moment with somebody you know and trust, rather than with some unknown, shady source that might not care about you enough to actually walk you through the awkwardness.
There is SO much miss-information about HIV and STDs out there that it's ironical, I mean HIV is such a pandemic because of it, and you'd think that something as big as that would get people's attention, but nope. I think the key word there is "consequences", it's part of people's fantasy that if it's out of sight, is out mind and thus it cannot happen, "if I don't speak to my kids about sex, then there's no reason for them to even know about it, let alone wonder, I'll just wait until they get married and then I'll breach the subject in a safe environment where nothing can go wrong and a lot will be spared". And then I get to do paperwork for dozens of Jane Does who don't want their family finding out about their visits to the campus clinic. And oh God, the number of infections we have to deal with in cases of medical negligence during abortion procedures (most of which are illegal, hence the negligence), and you know, infection is really the best outcome for one of those.
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Date: 2007-09-16 07:03 pm (UTC)Oh, what book was that? Yeah, is common to hear "Oh, I know something about it" to then learn that something might be too big a word to describe the amount of knowledge they actually have, it happened during the lecture, those kids were far more versed on abortive methods than contraceptive methods, hell they had that more clear than the "how to" for the pregnancy itself. I was really impressed (in the wrong way) by that. Heh, yeah, there were a lot of eww faces in the audience as well when descriptions came along.
I agree, better to have an awkward moment with somebody you know and trust, rather than with some unknown, shady source that might not care about you enough to actually walk you through the awkwardness.
There is SO much miss-information about HIV and STDs out there that it's ironical, I mean HIV is such a pandemic because of it, and you'd think that something as big as that would get people's attention, but nope. I think the key word there is "consequences", it's part of people's fantasy that if it's out of sight, is out mind and thus it cannot happen, "if I don't speak to my kids about sex, then there's no reason for them to even know about it, let alone wonder, I'll just wait until they get married and then I'll breach the subject in a safe environment where nothing can go wrong and a lot will be spared". And then I get to do paperwork for dozens of Jane Does who don't want their family finding out about their visits to the campus clinic. And oh God, the number of infections we have to deal with in cases of medical negligence during abortion procedures (most of which are illegal, hence the negligence), and you know, infection is really the best outcome for one of those.
::headdesk::