Cort
wrote a post today about a health class where she was shown photos of people with various STDs. "I didn't even want to
think about sex for, like, three years after that," she says in her post.
She has a good point. You can read about symptoms all you want, but to me, it doesn't really hit home until you see pictures. I think people also associate like this:
sex (can) = pregnant = babies = cute
while they should be thinking
sex (can) = STDs = festering globules, infertility, etc. = think before you and your partner go to town
I also remembered seeing The Miracle of Life in health class and decided that I would throw up any children I had because watching birth nearly made me vomit. This was eighth grade, but still. These things stick with you.
Did you have a particularly memorable moment in health class like Cort and I did? What, to you, is the most effective form of birth control?
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The most effective form of birth control? Not having sex. Nobody wants to do that though.
I think that having to take care of really bratty kids is always a good thing for some. It really makes them hope they don't get pregnant, so they step up their birth control and act a little more responsible. That only works with some people though, just like that thing with disease pictures would only work for some.
My health class never covered that, so.
Mention little things like "episiotomy" and "vaginal tearing". Read about Frankenpussy and bleeding nipples. Or little people who poop in and on places other than the toilet, frequently.
I've seen all those pictures. I'll still have sex. I'm just not retarded when I have sex
Wailing children and worn-out looking mothers. That's a good birth control.
I don't think it'll work. I barfed all through "Supersize Me", but yet today I was eating McDonald's. I got over my issues real fast for that! Seems that sex is so much more appetizing when it comes right down to it.
i do agree... i guess seeing how gross std's can be can help kids be more vigilant of their actions... i guess that is the reason why in some countries cigarette boxes are printed with pictures of disease brought about by smoking... hmmm not in my country thought, apparently the cigarette tycoon bribed our national officials...
I think HSs just really need to teach better birth control practices what they are and how to get them in health classes. I went to a small HS 40-50 in a graduating class and my health teacher SKIPPED sex ed. All of these kids are not stupid enough to not realize where babies come from but I know of at least 20 people I went to HS with, so 20/200, that have had a baby in the last 4 years. That does not even include the babies I don't know about.
For the most part, Teens are going to have sex if they want to. Seeing STDs and Pregnancies just make them think, that can't happen to me... Knowing where to get birth control and how to use it properly WILL prevent pregnancies and STDs. These kids aren't stupid, they don't want STDs and Babies but they think "this can't happen to me." so they don't worry about it in the moment.
Idk about that because most teens don't think about that kind of thing before they do it. They just assume the person they're doing it with is clean.
My science teacher made us look at pictures of std's
i was like gross i don't want that on my vagina! i definitely re thought sex.
Abstinence.
The Roman Catholic church strongly discourages pre-marital sex, which is effectively enforced by the threat of going to hell. Yep, that's my aversion to sex for now.
Nope, pictures aren't going to deter young people or anyone from having sex, maybe one person. It's still ineffective. Just like those smoking commercials showing an ill man don't do much to prevent smokers.
we didn't have time to finish watching The Miracle of Life in my class. still, shockers wear off after a while...
oh yeah, seeing the Miracle of Life made me want to never ever have kids.
& STD pictures are SOOOOOOOO gross.
They sure help. I used some when I taught sex ed last week. I also gave a graphic description of what happens to a girl's body during pregnancy: weight gain, stretch marks, hemorrhoids, microtears causing incontinence, bleeding for some 6 weeks afterward, heavy menstrual flow from a uterus that's ten times bigger than before. Stuff like that. I think I'll adopt.
ha most effective form of birth control for me are bad parents. seeing bad parents with their demon children makes me not want to have kids until i know i won't subject the world to my fuck-ups
...the miracle of life. My health teacher played it, then said "I don't think all of you saw it. Let me play it again." So we watched it in REVERSE and then again.
in Planning 10 class, the health nurses came in and showed us gruesome pictures. it was horrid == Still scarred for life
I don't think it does anything. If teens wanna have sex, they will. It seems like they will regardless if they have seen pictures or not. I was shown the pictures, and I've still had sex.
young pregnant girls with no one to support is the ultimate birth control for me. makes me not want to have sex at all.
being a summer camp counselor on weeks that it rains the whole time
I remember watching The Miracle of Life as well! I was asleep until the last part of the movie when the baby popped out. I was at the front row along with 5 other people. We all screamed when it happened haha. Scary seeing something like that after waking straight from a nap :P
The most effective form of birth control is castration, right? I went through the diseases slide show in my health class as well, but my sex ed was very thorough. The teacher discussed different forms of birth control (different types of condoms, pills, implants, vasectomy, abstinence, combinations, etc.), failure rates, what they could and could not prevent, but the easiest thing to remember was that abstinence is a sure-fire way to prevent both pregnancies AND STDs.
@Katja88@xanga - Ugh, I know...playing "inside games" only works for like an hour before you resort to nap time or a movie both of which never go as well as you hoped.
If I am a hormonally charged teenager and I'm engaged in a heated makeout session with my boyfriend that is quickly getting out of hand and approaching the point of no return, am I really going to say, "Wait a minute, stop."
*pulls out picture of genital herpes*
"Okay, lets not have sex now. Lets do homework instead!"
Riiight.
It's not an effective method. Neither is showing the movie For Keeps with Molly Ringwald.
growing a brain and waiting for Marriage is the best birth control.