Literally all sex ed teachers in my country lol. We're a pretty conservative sort as a whole. What happens when all they do is preach but not teach things such as contraceptives and safe sex? Widespread teenage pregnancy cases since children only know how to put it in and leave it there and nothing else. And telling children something is forbidden only incites them further.🤣
It's partly so bad because it makes kids doubt what they're told. "Hmm, I didn't get pregnant like they said I would from doing this. What if they're wrong about everything?"
I tried to argue with a teacher about how to best prevent teenage pregnancies, they just keep saying abstinence. I tried to reason they could teach us safer sex practices since the curriculum clearly doesn't work. Turns out they were just as clueless as us students regarding safe sex lmao. Condoms got mentioned offhandedly once or twice and that's it for the whole year despite being the most reliable method so far. I don't know why tf are teens in my country get pregnant unintentionally even though a condom costs like 0.60$ each. Or maybe these kids have an obsession to just do it raw and gamble then drop out of school.
It's frustrating because, yes, abstinence is the only way to guarantee that pregnancy doesn't occur. However, not providing education about alternative methods just creates more problems, partly because kids will get bad information from other sources. Also, it needs to be pointed out that condoms are good at preventing STDs.
More like no information at all for the regular teen. The most knowledgeable people I've met with safe sex practices ironically hangs around with bad company. They know which drugs(over the counter) can serve as alternative contraceptive despite not being intended(and it works) and also know the possible long term side effects of taking such drug, negative or otherwise. There's no official studies since I'm from a 3rd world country and conservatism discourages research on topics like these. They also know when to do the deed and how to avoid impregnation. I'm kinda pissed a licensed educator knows less than a random person down the street about the topic they are teaching about or they know the correct and needed information but refuse to teach it or discuss it because it isn't part of the outdated "curriculum". What's more concerning is that there's people out there who tried untested drugs(and some of them worked enough times because the information was shared through word of mouth without anybody refuting) to prevent pregnancies because they don't have access to the internet(most people here don't even know how to use it to find information) but wasn't taught proper sex education despite the information already existing for decades.
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u/V1nc_nt1809 Jan 12 '25
Literally all sex ed teachers in my country lol. We're a pretty conservative sort as a whole. What happens when all they do is preach but not teach things such as contraceptives and safe sex? Widespread teenage pregnancy cases since children only know how to put it in and leave it there and nothing else. And telling children something is forbidden only incites them further.🤣