Some articles on sex ed.

[conuly]

What We Can Learn From the Dutch About Teen Sex

Another article on a very positive sex-ed class in a private school. There are several comments in the comments section from former students all raving about the class.

To Skip the 'Talk' About Sex, Have an Ongoing Dialogue

This is mostly an okay article, except one weird thing. They give the example of a girl, 14, who had started talking to a boy online and then sent a number of texts back and forth. They gave NO detail about why this is a concern (was she sending her address to him? personal pictures?), and end on the apparently happy note that the girl decided that with the "dangers" of "connecting to people online" she'd promise never to do it again. Because there's no way to talk to people safely on the internet? Weird.

Comments

[crystalpyramid]

<3 Friends Central so much! (I almost got a job there last year, but they picked the other candidate.)

[marveen.livejournal.com]

THat last one, I'm hoping they just left out a helluva lot of skeevy details, because, well, I met my current husband online. ;-D

Seriously, people online are no more liable to be a raving lunatic than people you meet on the street. Just take reasonable precautions (which sounds like she didn't--online talk does NOT mean you get my cell number before we've even met) and odds are you'll be fine.

[conuly]

Apparently she sent like 900 texts over 3 days, mostly short replies. So maybe the thing she promised not to do was send 300 texts a day? In that case, it's poorly written.