Absolutely. I’d bet big chunks of money that a gay kid in high school or whatever is just as nervous about asking that cute guy out, or kissing the guy he’s been dating for a week, or whatever, as a girl would be asking a guy out, or a guy would be doing whatever. It’s sort of that whole “You’re scared of the deer? It’s just as scared of you!” thing. Only with gay deer. Or gay headlights. Or something, I dunno;)
Remember I’m not too far removed from sex education myself, though in my case it was done (school-wise) more by visiting monks (who, I guess, had less to fear because they were not going to have to face a barrage of questions later by kids they were around a lot). I would have had almost no clue were it not for my (liberal at the time … now I’m not so sure;)) parents. Father’s a nurse and neither of them saw any reason to hide medical stuff from us. Told us allllll about stuff if we asked, and sometimes if we didn’t. We had The Joy of Sex when I was ten, IIRC.
And no, the pages do not stick together, tenkewveddymuch:p
Aw, shucks, I didn’t mean to say “Poly you awful christian I think you ought to be shot for what you’ve said in this thread AND you smell bad”…I’ve seen the “sexuality=sex” approach used many many many times on this board and yours happened to be a post where I felt bringing up an counterpoint of sorts would be most fruitful.
Poly, that was sort of the point:D Plus the inherent Irish imagery combined with the sexuality issue seemed too much fun to pass up (stream of thought: Irish-Catholic-commonly seen, if only in the past, as strict christians who care way too much about sexuality. Have been replaced by more conservative christians, but the stereotype is still played often enough in present day).
I think another important question is what Joey actually meant by it, because Joey might think a blowjob is where you blow (as in, blow cool air) at a penis or whatever. Remember Tris’ post of not so many months ago now where he talked about blow jobs he and another boy did on each other when they were, IIRC, 11? That concept of a blowjob and the common concept are reasonably similar, but there are some rather striking differences as well.
Somehow this reminded me of my biggest objection to the whole “let the parents teach their kids about sex”. Let me try to say this intelligently.
:: pause for big laffs ::
This assumes firstly that the parent and child have a relationship where this sort of thing can be talked about (and for those who are wards of the state, that sort of relationship might very well not exist). It further assumes that a parent will tell their child anything at all. Not “don’t have sex until you’re married end of story pass the ketchup”. Nothing.
And if the child is taught nothing, then how can we assume they’re taught things like how to say no, or how to respond to an honest request for some sort of sexual contact? How do they know how to react around people of any gender when it comes to anything sexual? I understand why many people object to sex/morals being taught in schools, but at a certain point I think you have to ask where they are going to find out about the options they have in life. I don’t think it’s fair to allow the parents to simply say “they won’t because that’s what we believe”. It seems like punishing the child. And it’s very likely that with parents who restrict the learning/access of material with which they disagree you also get parents who, when their children turn 18 and are thus (legally) able to make their own decisions, a very frightening hypothetical comes up (slippery slope, here we come!): parents who say “you will not find out about X subject or we’ll toss you out of the house”… which returns us to the subject of the OP, as there’s more than one person on this board who can tell us about being disowned because of his sexuality.
Restriction from information is a scary thing to me.
And lastly, Mothchunks asks:
"Let’s say our hypothetical 7th grader is learns in sex ed that that a man puts his penis in the woman’s vagina.
What is the answer going to be when the child asks what two men or two women do? Do they get a graphic description of fellatio, cunnilingus, anal sex, dildos, etc.?"
I hope I’m not the first person to tell you that man-woman couples do these things as well;)