I agree entirely Equus, but sex-education needs to be done well and at the right age. My sex education was basically useless for two reasons. Firstly apart from the basic biology of it we didn't get taught any sex-ed untill 15 so by that time it was really too late, I think about 12/13 would be better. Best to be experimenting with sex after the sex-ed classes IMO. Secondly the way we were taught was quite frankly terrible. We had about 15 minutes going through the different types of protection then spent the rest of the classes being taught about std's, the effects of pregnancy and having it drilled into us not-too-subtly that if we had sex we would get an STD or a pregnancy. So the message was largely ignored, we knew that what we were taught wasn't true so instead of taking it all on board we ignored it and laughed at the classes.

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