Interestingly, there was
an article in the New York Times Magazine last week about sex education, called
"Teaching Good Sex."
The lessons that tend to raise eyebrows outside the school, according to Vernacchio, are a medical research video he shows of a woman ejaculating — students are allowed to excuse themselves if they prefer not to watch — and a couple of dozen up-close photographs of vulvas and penises. The photos, Vernacchio said, are intended to show his charges the broad range of what’s out there. “It’s really a process of desensitizing them to what real genitals look like so they’ll be less freaked out by their own and, one day, their partner’s,” he said. What’s interesting, he added, is that both the boys and girls receive the photographs of the penises rather placidly but often insist that the vulvas don’t look “normal.” “They have no point of reference for what a normal, healthy vulva looks like, even their own,” Vernacchio said. The female student-council vice president agreed: “When we did the biology unit, I probably would’ve been able to label just as many of the boys’ body parts as the girls’, which is sad. I mean, you should know about the names of your own body.”
It's a good article, and sounds like a good class-and, largely, exactly what the more Puritanical elements of our society are afraid of when they hear the words "sex education."
Now, I don't know how it is-or
was-in the rest of the country, but when I was a kid, and wasn't uncommon for three or even four couples to be making out in a car or someone's room, and for someone to say
Swap!, and for everyone to change partners.
That's one form of "group sex," and-while some of us probably thought we had-we didn't invent it, and weren't the first "
children" to do it. Ditto any number of configurations that don't need to be detailed here. Needless to say, though, a simple
menage a trois (Simple? Two guys one girl, two girls one guy, three girls, three guys? And I'm not even going to get into the.....
choreography :lfao: ) constitutes "group sex," as do "ganbangs"-all things that
consentually occurred between "
children," more than thirty years ago, and had been, as near as I can tell, since well before WWII.
I can recall a presentation by the county health officer-the man in charge of tracking venereal diseases-that I saw when I was in
8th grade-that's 1972-speaking of a "sex club" that was spreading STDs through an adolescent populace (read: high school) in the county.
Kids are gonna do what they're gonna do- bottom line, they should be trained to do it safely, in case they do it at all.....
