What do you know now as an adult that you wish you were taught in your sex ed class?

That’s funny, my school was the complete opposite, and we were a pretty serious Catholic school that had priest who lived on site and came to our school to learn how to do priest stuff.

We were taught heavily about birth control, what works and doesn’t work, side effects, benefits, advantages etc in both science and religion classes. In religion we had a bunch of myths dismissed and looked at biblical/theological arguments in favour of and against contraception.

We weren’t shown abortion, but we we again discussed it with theological reasons for and against it, what it was, in science it was taught alongside birth control and pregnancy. By the time I was 13/14 I’d say every kid in my highly religious highschool knew all about birth control.

But teachers would always toss an ‘but you should wait until marriage ;)’ at the end of these lessons. They knew full well most of us wouldn’t, and miseducating us would only cause more issues. I’m sure if any actual authorities such as those who fund them were in our lessons we’d get a very different ‘abortion is murder’ ‘sex is sinful’ type rhetoric, but my Religion teacher was an old priest and he had no issues with giving us both sides of the coin such as how you can argue in favour of abortion and birth control etc using the bible and Jesus.

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