# Could this sex-ed video work in the US classroom?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 25, 2015, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-sex-ed-video-work-in-the-us-classroom/720791 "2015-05-25T13:46:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-sex-ed-video-work-in-the-us-classroom/720791/3 "2015-05-25T14:14:26Z")

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> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#):
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> My thoughts? That the US allows prudery that is decades if not a century out of step to determine how we handle sex as a public topic.
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> But - close to TS here, but that’s not how I mean it - I am always sourly amused when someone points to something one of the small, homogenous, wealthy, socialist-by-choice, insular nations does, and says, totally without irony, “Why can’t WE do that?”

I’m always amused when a country’s wealth or economic system or homogeniety is brought up to explain, ipso facto, why Americans can’t do something. What does Norway’s superior wealth have to do with anything? Or their socialism? Or their insularity? Seems to me the only meaningful comparison would be Norwegian religiosity versus American religiosity. According to Google, 83% of Americans identity themselves as Christian–13% as “no religion”. 82% of Norwegians identify as Christians. The overwhelming majority belong to the [Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Norway).

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