Thursday, May 31, 2007
Chapter 1:The War on Embarrassment
Wendy Shalit assumes that early sexual education program vulgarizes the notion of sex among children. Thus, children become sexually active when they cannot assume all the responsibilities it implies. The author tries to show us that sexual education programs alienate children from the natural established way things are suppose to be; and have led to unselfconciousness toward sex.
As for me, I think that it is an over-simplified explanation to the evolution of sexual behaviors through the last three decades. Sexual education programs might be somehow involved in the ways people approaches sex nowadays, but we have to underline that there is a lot of other factors that influence an individual. The first socializing agent remains family, and before school it is within one's family that he/she acquire a certain amount of values, "norms", and ideology. So it seems like accusing sexual education programs can be questioned.
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I do agree that one's family has a strong impact in the beliefs and values of any person. Sex education cannot be solely blamed for the actions of the students who have been a part of it. In any case, Elementary school students are far too young to be introduced to sex education and told that it is something normal and expected. Students at that are age are still innocent and should remain that way. I think that Sex Education should be introduced in middle school. Students at this age are a little older and beginning to mature mentally and physically and can better handle the information they are given. Again, I do agree that without a strong family unit, it does not matter when sex education is introduced. Students will go to their friends for advice rather than their parents and make decisions without knowing what consequences, positive or negative, they may face.
-Bryan Leonardy (I do agree that one's.....)
The idea that the changing sexual intentions and actions is only based on the sexual education in school is shallow in my opinion. I agree with the statement that family is the main component in sex education, and sex education in schools should be secondary, important but secondary. The idea that 6 and 7 year olds are being taught about sexual actions is a little extreme. I believe sex education should be sex separated until the children are older. This will alleviate some of the taunting children receive. In addition to this, children cannot understand what they are being taught at such a young age. Sex education is important for all ages yet it needs to be age appropriate.
Kristine Jansen
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