Sexual Education: Should it Start from Kinder?
By Audre Iglehart
EDI 550/551 Psychology of Adolescent Students
School of Education
Long Island University, C. W. Post
June 17, 2009
I do believe that sexuality and sex education should begin in kindergarten and the subject is just as important as language, math, science etc. Unfortunately sex education has been relegated to abstinence education in the country and it is not helpful and unrealistic. It seems that all sexual education programs focus on all the negative things that can happen if you choose to have sex. This negative spin allows sex to be taboo and not accepted. It seems that everyone is convinced that if you accept that teens are having sex and talk about how to make proper choices and be a respectful partner then all kids will begin to have sex like animals. For some reason we continue to teach all the negatives about sex even if it is not working. I understand that no politician wants to be the one to say “Our kids are having sex, lets teach them about it and give them access to protection.”
I also feel that the reasons adolescents have sex are different. A male has sex for two reasons, to fit in socially and because it feels good and he is satisfied after sex. An adolescent female has sex to socially fit in, because she wants to please her horney boyfriend or she thinks its good sex. I don’t care what anyone says a 13 year old boy has no idea how to please a woman sexually. Those are skills that take years to master, and unfortunately some men never do. So therefore no 13 year old girl having sex with her boyfriend walks away satisfied. As it takes years for males to craft a technique or multiple techniques to satisfy a female it takes a female years to gain enough self-confidence and experience to know what will satisfy her and articulate that to her partner.
Long Island University, C. W. Post
June 17, 2009
I do believe that sexuality and sex education should begin in kindergarten and the subject is just as important as language, math, science etc. Unfortunately sex education has been relegated to abstinence education in the country and it is not helpful and unrealistic. It seems that all sexual education programs focus on all the negative things that can happen if you choose to have sex. This negative spin allows sex to be taboo and not accepted. It seems that everyone is convinced that if you accept that teens are having sex and talk about how to make proper choices and be a respectful partner then all kids will begin to have sex like animals. For some reason we continue to teach all the negatives about sex even if it is not working. I understand that no politician wants to be the one to say “Our kids are having sex, lets teach them about it and give them access to protection.”
I also feel that the reasons adolescents have sex are different. A male has sex for two reasons, to fit in socially and because it feels good and he is satisfied after sex. An adolescent female has sex to socially fit in, because she wants to please her horney boyfriend or she thinks its good sex. I don’t care what anyone says a 13 year old boy has no idea how to please a woman sexually. Those are skills that take years to master, and unfortunately some men never do. So therefore no 13 year old girl having sex with her boyfriend walks away satisfied. As it takes years for males to craft a technique or multiple techniques to satisfy a female it takes a female years to gain enough self-confidence and experience to know what will satisfy her and articulate that to her partner.
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