27 Quotes About Sex-education

Young women today are sold the idea that sexiness is the same as sexuality, that being desirable is more important than understanding their own desires.

Since most parents are reluctant to talk about sex, schools have tried to fill the gap. In America, when we decide to ignore a subject, our favorite form of denial is to teach it incompetently. Familiarity without true understanding is not only the basis of our families but of our educational system as well.

I flip ahead in the textbook. There's an interesting chapter about acid rain. Nothing about sex. We aren't scheduled to learn about that until eleventh grade.

Because Clare had never let the fact that Mark didn't have a father in his life get in the way of sex education. She'd been showing Mark how to roll condoms onto bananas long before he'd known it was other bananas he was interested in.

Learning to have sex from porn is like learning how to drive from the Fast and Furious. A bloody horrendous idea.

No tienes idea. No quieres tenerme de enemiga.

Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.

What this means for parents is that you never know what your child’s “sex education” class may entail. Only fourteen states require that sex ed be medically accurate.

In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.