Birds & Bees

Read news about the 9 year old girl who was impregnated by a 14 year old. Who was it who said we are Asians and have conservative views?

Anyhow, this sets me thinking.

Sex Education is not a fucking science.

It's not enough to teach kids about how a baby is made. It's beyond anatomically correct dolls or not blushing when saying words like penis, vagina, scrotrum and testes. But you try saying "testes" without grinning. Go on, try it.

You can't right?

It's also about telling kids how to do it safely (should they choose to do so). I remember an episode of 90210 (ok, I learnt alot from this show, besides how to keep sideburns) where they compared it to swimming. Instead of building a fence around the pool, you gotta teach the kid how to swim.

It's about knowing with whom and when to do it. Precautions to be taken. Consequences.

Side joke. Imagine teaching a really smart kid about the whole sex and gestation thing. How it takes 9 months and all before the baby is ready to meet the world....

Mum: And that is how long it takes for little Johnny to develop from a tiny fertilised egg into a baby!

Little Johnny: But mummy, how is it possible that I was born on Easter Sunday but you and daddy were married on Christmas the year before?