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Anyone else (especially queers) feel betrayed/resentful towards the sex education class in public school? (hexbear.net)
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Stuff about cishet sex and preventing STDs is important.

But absolutely nothing about gender! Or romance! Or hell, even lust between two cishet people! Can't the concept of "hookups" be brought up?

Deriving sexual pleasure for both parties wasn't even talked about either!

And of course the concept of "being gay" wasn't brought up either. "Lesbians? Gays? Are those a brand of energy drink or.....?"

And "PIV" sex was the only method acknowledged to exist.

As I type this I'm realizing it wasn't even very good for the cishets!

No mentions of setting boundaries in sexual and romantic relationships. Nothing about breaking up in a healthy and constructive manner. Again, nothing about making sure both parties are sexually satisfied.

I mean we all know one party in a relationship becoming apathetic towards the other party never happens. Lust and romance Love are completely static emotions that never fluctuate with time!

Nothing about different types of love.

On a personal level I'm pissed I was never told about asexuality, aromanticism, and gender queerness.

I mean god forbid I get told what being agender and transfem means and then wonder if I'm both of those! Or that I could be aromantic!

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[–] 11 points 2 days ago

My sex ed was one step above abstinence only, and even then the teacher made sure to emphasize at every possible opportunity that abstinence was the only 100% effective method to prevent pregnancies/stds and made sure to really harp on the failure rates of condoms/other methods. I wasn't even shown the banana condom demonstration, we briefly touched on consent and there was nothing on sex/relationships.

Oh and it was pretty much taken for granted that it was for cishet relationships, there was a brief lip service to "1 in 10 people are gay" (inaccurate, and it made sure I didn't realize I was bisexual until my mid 20s since I was attracted to the opposite sex so I must be straight and no need to further examine these other feelings)

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