Sex/uality Artifacts

My Sexuality artifact deals with the topic of sex education. I believe sex education is very important to be taught in schools today. During the class we talked about the different age to teach sex education. I never really thought about teaching elementary sex education, but I do think it could be helpful for those aged students. We have the puberty talk around fifth and sixth grade but not full on sex education. When I was growing up I had sex education in seventh grade and everyone had to take it. I felt that at that age it was appropriate for students to learn about sex and become educated on the subject. I remember having a student teacher teach some of the unit I could tell he was uncomfortable teaching the subject, but it’s something that needs to be taught. When we talked in class I couldn’t believe how many people never had sex education when they were growing up. Not only did I have sex education in seventh grade, but I also had it in high school. It was a good refresher to the importance of the subject.
The video is from the popular teenage movie “Mean Girls”. The movie is based around 4 different high school girls and their life during high school. In the scene it shows a health teacher talking about sex education. On the chalk board behind him it says abstinence only and it’s circled. This isn’t the only way to teach sex education. He says in the clip “don’t have sex because you will get pregnant and die” then he goes through different positions. This isn’t the truth and the movie is poking fun at a very important topic. At the end of the clip he says okay here are some rubbers, which goes against the abstinence that is written on the board. Overall the clip just shows then when teaching sex education it’s important to be knowledge about the topics and to be comfortable talking about it in front of the students. High school students are sexuality active and some aren’t knowledge about the danger if they do not protect themselves overall, sex education should be taught in schools.