From: "Burke, Jeffrey" <jburke@cnc.com> To: "'Marianne Bratlie'" <mariannebratlie@hotmail.com> Subject: RE: Sinister: sex in school... Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 15:54:33 -0400
Hey there. I'm on the sinister list but alas don't have a voice yet. :( my personal experience on sex in school is not it doesn't lose the excitement... in the US they teach you the basic anatomy way before your anatomy looks anything like you're seeing. then you really don't talk about it in a formal setting again that's when friends rumors and experimentation take over. I think the US school system is particularly conservative compared to some parts of the word...scandanavia from what I've heard is very liberal..that's why most americans are sexual dysfunctional :)
Personally I remember getting taken into the music room with all the other boys and being told all about reproduction nothing much about sex. at the same time the girls were off getting told the same thing (from a female prospective I'm assuming..) then we didn't really have anymore official learning on in in 6th grade (12 years old...) we got a little more on "human sexuality" in science class and we had a "health" class which I'm assuming was supposed to be about that but we only talked about the evil temptations of alcohol and cigarettes...it was taught by the high school football coach so no wonder there ...:)
I found a copy of "everything you ever wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask" a great book on sex written in the late 60's I think...it was there I learned about masturbation and oral sex and all sorts of helpful things..school didn't do it for me...
but later when I have my actual first sexual experiences...in college. (I admit I was a late bloomer :) it was just as exciting as I could possible imagine...
that's just my 2 cents.. ...feel free to forward to the list if that's acceptable...I'm not sure.. I've never seen a list where you had to observe for two weeks before participating. but judging by the threads and intellect of the members it will be worth the wait
hope all is well where you live. jeff
What sounds to you like big load of trashy old noise is in fact the brilliant music of a genius myself... and that music is so powerful it's quite beyond my control. --Iggy Pop
Jeff Burke Content Coordinator, Popular Music. www.townonline.com
-----Original Message----- From: Marianne Bratlie [SMTP:mariannebratlie@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 3:17 PM To: sinister@Majordomo.net Subject: Sinister: sex in school...
.no, not having sex in school,
..when we are on the subject "teaching sex in school", I would like to ask a question that has crossed my mind a couple of times.
Do you think the lessons we are given ( I can remember getting the first one at the age of ten , or nine or something, and it has never stopped since..)has taken away some of the "excitement" connected to sex?
I`m just wondering how it was when you discovered everything on your own (with someone, or yourself for that sake )- without having seen stuff on the telly, or been told in school "how to make babies"-and to always wear a condom, ....and so on.
I`m not saying it`s not important to teach about sex in school, it is very
important, especially in todays society, and it`s nice that we can talk about sex openly too, but have we crossed some kind of limit? Has sex got to "commercial"??? (This is the right word, right?? It is in norwegian, anyway...)
I`ll have to go now, hope I`ve made my point.my mummy will get upset if I don`t show up to dinner NOW....
take care xxx Marianne
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