# Sex education

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-education/12027>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 12, 1999, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-education/12027 "1999-12-12T13:53:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![BrainWeasel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@BrainWeasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainWeasel)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 1999, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-education/12027/21 "1999-12-15T17:43:00Z")

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> Any teen can get enough sex ed from tv/movies nowadays, unfortunately.

## I think the bad part about it is that television and other popular media isn’t _allowed_ to give sex ed. What they end up doing is giving as much of a teaser as they can without giving away the plot – sort of a sex _ad_. The problem is that, if you haven’t seen the movie, you don’t get the in-joke. Feed kids TV, and they’ll end up saying, “Hey, that looks cool. We should have sex. …What is it, anyway?”

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**Author:** ![Kiki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kiki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiki)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 1999, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-education/12027/22 "1999-12-15T21:46:00Z")

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I think the most important thing is to teach kids about abstinence and condoms. That way you’re not telling them to go out and have sex but you’re saying that if they do they need to be protected.

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**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 1999, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-education/12027/23 "1999-12-15T22:15:00Z")

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Cheese Head,

You said ‘Any teen can get enough sex ed from tv/movies nowadays, unfortunately.’

I know American TV is livelier than English TV, but which program showed (for example)masturbation / how to put on a condom?

I think you may be confusing titillation with sex education.

Rachelle,

I agree!

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