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ButterflyEffect  ·  3864 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What If We Admitted to Children That Sex Is Primarily About Pleasure?

    I started sex ed somewhere around the fifth or sixth grade I think, and I remember the class spending a lot of time focusing on how people can derive pleasure from sex.

You had a very different experience from myself and JackTheBandit. While I went to a public school, sex for pleasure was not a thing that was talked about in sex ed in 6th grade. The benefits of abstinence and the horrors of STD's were more of the focal points once the basic anatomy was covered. Sex ed was at best a topic treated neutrally and brushed under the carpet until we were all older, and at worst treated in a negative and somewhat severe manner.