In sex education...

[immense]

Do they mention or explain homosexuality? I am curious as I have never had sex education in my 13 years of education.

[dirrty]

no, they didn't rly. she just put a condom on a *****, said we shouldn't have a "wham, bam, thank you mam in a toilet cubicle", told us about STDs etc. and dunno what else. RE covered some sex ed topics tho aswell.

[Richie]

i dno i have never ever had sex education

[Shar]

Erm no
but in our pse lessons (forgot what that stands for) this year we were watching clips telling us about gay sex....

[MrPinkPanther]

nope. we were just told if you're gay you will get HIV.

[Jordy]

only had one lesson in five years and I missed that as the school thought it'd be better if i sweet talked the ofsted lot into pretending i go to a great school.

[Roxy]

Yeah they do at my school. We had another massive unit on sex education in year 9 which covered everything in a lot of detail, including being gay/bi/unsure and how you know etc.

[HotelUser]

here there is no specific subject for sex education, it's just a short topic in a health class, which is mandatory because you're only 13/14 when you take it (and in Canada you don't get to choose your own courses until you're in highschool, which is when you're 15/16).

Our teacher asked us what biases we knew about homosexual people, and wrote them on the board. He had a list of around 12ish rude terms for what people called them (need I tell you any). I remember it being incredibly awkward.

I don't think you really need to go into detail about specifically homosexual intercourse, because you have the same dangers of contracting STIS as you do when they discuss heterosexual intercourse. Plus, if they did talk about it, it just gives the kids another excuse to bully the kids they think are "sooooo gay", and it would most likely embarrass the one or two, if any, kids in the class who actually are, because they would obviously believe the discussion was just for their benefit.

[dogboy123]

In my school we did it in pshce with puberty and all

It was kinda brief like you may find yourself liking the opposite sex, your teachers, or maybe even the same sex but thats normal at your age bla bla

[Nixt]

As of September it will be the law to teach children about homosexuality in PHSE as per the national curriculum. At least that's what I was told on my Stonewall residential.

[marriott0.01]

In my school we did it in pshce with puberty and all

It was kinda brief like you may find yourself liking the opposite sex, your teachers, or maybe even the same sex but thats normal at your age bla bla

Or even if you're Ben, both ;) Lols.

But no we never covered it, we just covered STD's and put a condom on a *****. That's all we did.

[immense]

I well missed out.

[buttons]

why did some of you not get sex ed? we got loads here, even saw someone give birth: :/
not really we just got told we might like the opposite sex but it's just a phase:rolleyes:

[MrPinkPanther]

As of September it will be the law to teach children about homosexuality in PHSE as per the national curriculum. At least that's what I was told on my Stonewall residential.
Good, the labour government was going to back down about that because of religious pressure but I can't see the liberal democrats allowing the conservatives to do the same :D

[marriott0.01]

why did some of you not get sex ed? we got loads here, even saw someone give birth: :/
not really we just got told we might like the opposite sex but it's just a phase:rolleyes:

What so you like watched someone give ACTUAL birth :| You just watched her squeeze it out?

[Nixt]

What so you like watched someone give ACTUAL birth :| You just watched her squeeze it out?

I watched a video of that in science in year seven? lol. And that was in 2001. God I am old.

[buttons]

What so you like watched someone give ACTUAL birth :| You just watched her squeeze it out?
a video lol

[Jordy]

What so you like watched someone give ACTUAL birth :| You just watched her squeeze it out?There is videos...

[immense]

We didn't get sex ed because our school sucked (it has been threatened with a notice to improve... and a cause for concern) we didn't get a lot of stufffff tbh.

[marriott0.01]

I watched a video of that in science in year seven? lol. And that was in 2001. God I am old.

I think if it was some random person or someone I didn't 'love' in a romantic way, I'd actually throw up :|

[Becca]

I haven't :S
We got given this book which has some info on it.
Not much detail though. Just things like "They're still the same person, just confused or positive about liking the other sex"

[dbgtz]

yes a bit, only because my teachers a homosexual.

[lorren]

no, they didn't rly. she just put a condom on a *****, said we shouldn't have a "wham, bam, thank you mam in a toilet cubicle", told us about STDs etc. and dunno what else. RE covered some sex ed topics tho aswell.

yeah i had this, and a little in science...we had to write questions into a box and i asked "are we doing practical" for a joke:rolleyes:

[Moh]

I can't really remember sex ed at school. Think we did it in year 5 at primary school and then year 7 at secondary. peche (PSHCA) might have covered it, but we all knew by then so I think the teacher gave in.


In my school we did it in pshce with puberty and all

It was kinda brief like you may find yourself liking the opposite sex, your teachers, or maybe even the same sex but thats normal at your age bla bla
I think your teacher was coming onto you.

I well missed out.
Why needs sex education when you have HabboxForum?

[Meanies]

we got to put condoms on a carrot but thats as much as i remember
oh and a video called sex in the shed

[HotelUser]

we got to put condoms on a carrot but thats as much as i remember
oh and a video called sex in the shed

We were never taught how to put condoms on, actually!

[Moh]

LOL OMG we had this thing at college and to get condoms you had to do a STD test (pee in the pot). Of course nobody did it and didn't get free condoms.

Great way to support safe sex!

[-:Undertaker:-]

Good, the labour government was going to back down about that because of religious pressure but I can't see the liberal democrats allowing the conservatives to do the same :D


As of September it will be the law to teach children about homosexuality in PHSE as per the national curriculum. At least that's what I was told on my Stonewall residential.

Militant homos, you do yourselves no favours you know. Anyway no we didnt, we hardly did sex education at all really in secondary school. We did prenancy etc but that was so boring I cant even remember any of it at all.

[MrPinkPanther]

Militant homos, you do yourselves no favours you know.
Its not even because i'm gay, i'd say exactly the same thing if i wasn't. I firmly believe that all kinds of relationships should be taught in sex education not only so "gays" can understand their relationships better but so other people can too. Because of course, ignorance breeds intolerance.

[Jahova]

No because when I did it, being gay wasn't right. And some would say it still isn't..

[immense]

No because when I did it, being gay wasn't right. And some would say it still isn't..

Are you 50 odd?

[HotelUser]

Its not even because i'm gay, i'd say exactly the same thing if i wasn't. I firmly believe that all kinds of relationships should be taught in sex education not only so "gays" can understand their relationships better but so other people can too. Because of course, ignorance breeds intolerance.

I agree with you in that perspective, but I think in reality it would humiliate the kid in the class (keep in mind how young kids are when they go through sexual education) who actually is homosexual, and who is already ridiculed by his classmates.


Are you 50 odd?

truly bizarre!

[,Lexiilu]

nope they didnt teach us gay sex

[Erotica]

There was a brief mention of homosexuality, but nothing more than that.

[MrPinkPanther]

I agree with you in that perspective, but I think in reality it would humiliate the kid in the class (keep in mind how young kids are when they go through sexual education) who actually is homosexual, and who is already ridiculed by his classmates.
I agree kinda but I think the vast majority of homosexuals do not even realise they are homosexual themselves by year 8/9, I certainly didn't, let alone tell people. If they have told people by then they are clearly comfortable enough with their sexuality to do so. Also if someone is bullied for being gay then I actually think teaching about it would lessen that not heighten it. As far as I'm aware homosexuality is only mentioned when talking about sex protection, STDs etc, thus associating it with "badness". I'm not saying that the intricacies of anal sex should be taught but just like they talk about straight relationships they should talk about gay ones. Educating people about it, telling them that gay people aren't "weird" or morally wrong but are people just like everyone else would really help.

I mean we teach about islam and non-chrisitian religions in Religious Studies right? That doesn't increase islamaphobia, quite the opposite, it makes it seem more normal because people actually understand what they believe in. I think this would do the same thing for homosexuality.

[FlyingJesus]

I was at an all boys school we knew enough about being gay anyway so they didn't bother. At least that was probably their reasoning

[Special]

they probly glanced the topic, but never in detail like do they with hetrosexuals

[Bun]

No because when I did it, being gay wasn't right. And some would say it still isn't..

lol get off my forum you old creep


nah i wasn't taught about homos

[Caution]

They brought people in from a LGBT group to talk to us about it. The teacher makes the odd comment under her breath about being gay so it sort of loses the point.

[Black_Apalachi]

Nope they're all homophobes init

Seriously though, how can people have never had any sex ed? :S I'm sure we first had it in like year 8 or 9 then I remember at about year 10 they split the girls and boys up and in the boys class this woman showed us how to put a johnny on with this model lol and then they were always bangin on about contraception all the time

[-:Undertaker:-]

Its not even because i'm gay, i'd say exactly the same thing if i wasn't. I firmly believe that all kinds of relationships should be taught in sex education not only so "gays" can understand their relationships better but so other people can too. Because of course, ignorance breeds intolerance.

I do aswell, I was referring to stonewall. I believe it should be taught like the others but not promoted.

[HotelUser]

I do aswell, I was referring to stonewall. I believe it should be taught like the others but not promoted.

when you say promote do you mean not encourage people to be gay, not say it's ok to be or something else entirely?

[TheEclipse]

I didn't get to see the whole sex ed course but in the class I was helping out they had to do a little survey thing on what they wanted to know more about, and homosexuality was a tickbox that about 8 girls in the class ticked as a first priority, so I hope that they were taught something about it other than 'use protection! And being gay is normal!'

There's no possible way to 'promote' homosexuality. No amount of 'it's okay if you're gay' or 'here's how to protect yourself' or 'you might have confusing feelings' would make YOU gay if you weren't already, right?

[Soy]

no because that's gay

[TheEclipse]

Also... a lot of stuff for homosexuality sex ed is similar for heterosexuals as well. Random guys giving random girls oral sex should use the same protection as lesbians, guys should always use condoms no matter who they're having sex with or what body part...
It's more about inclusive language I think, (When you're having sex with the person you're with...' rather than 'when you have sex with a man') so that they know that this stuff applies to them too, and that it's okay.

[TheEclipse]

That's awesome that they brought in people from an LGBT group!

[jackass]

Nope, never learned about homosexuality much I don't think, but it was a long time ago, so i'm not 100%.

[myke]

you name it, we studied it.

[Nixt]

Militant homos, you do yourselves no favours you know. Anyway no we didnt, we hardly did sex education at all really in secondary school. We did prenancy etc but that was so boring I cant even remember any of it at all.

Stonewall doesn't promote homosexuality but promotes the equality homosexuals rightfully deserve.

[MrPinkPanther]

Stonewall doesn't promote homosexuality but promotes the equality homosexuals rightfully deserve.

Agreed. I think it's impossible to promote homosexuality. I mean no matter how many times you say to someone "its fine to be gay" they are still gonna be straight, it simply helps them understand homosexuality so they are less likely to be against it and they understand that its fine for them to be homosexual.

[Mikey]

Only been told how to put a condom on a fake penis and about aids and crap like that in high school. In primary they told us about penis and testicles unless they've changed it since 7 years ago.

[-:Undertaker:-]

when you say promote do you mean not encourage people to be gay, not say it's ok to be or something else entirely?


Stonewall doesn't promote homosexuality but promotes the equality homosexuals rightfully deserve.


Agreed. I think it's impossible to promote homosexuality. I mean no matter how many times you say to someone "its fine to be gay" they are still gonna be straight, it simply helps them understand homosexuality so they are less likely to be against it and they understand that its fine for them to be homosexual.

I think we all know what promotion of homosexuality is;- groups such as Stonewall are determined to ram forward their agendas in an almost militant way on the majority of the population and things such as gay pride and gay groups in general are the same. It is these groups that give homosexuality a bad name, infact they make an issue out of it. The example below is a good example, just because somebody does not agree with homosexuality or because a MP such as Chris Grayling agrees with peoples right to have an opinion on homosexuality - groups such as Stonewall find something to moan about and 'fight for rights' - well news just in Stonewall, nobody (the majority) really cares if people are gay anymore to an extreme level.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8602371.stm

The idea that its homosexuals vs everyone else is just a mentality many gay people have and wrongly so, because it pushes them further away from the reality which is that being gay isnt much of an issue anymore - in doing so, they also forget that people can have opinions on them being gay and that we live in a democracy above all other things - or we are supposed to anyway.

[eddiekins]

Very few schools cover homosexuality in sex ed. lessons, the focus of them is to to make you have safe sex and once they achieve that goal they don't particularly care about anything else.
Some RE lessons at my school (which is Catholic) have covered the ethics of homosexuality, and why people choose it...
Mostly they go on about how it's wrong. Which is horrible, but that's what Catholic's belief I guess... :rolleyes:

[Gibs960]

No, that's why I'm really worried if any of the people at my school are, because it wasn't mentioned in sex ed

[Circadia]

Erm no
but in our pse lessons (forgot what that stands for) this year we were watching clips telling us about gay sex....
Personal social education. and nop

[Muct]

I find it totally unfair how they don't teach lesbian/gay relationships.

[JACKTARD]

I had sex ed in year 6, 7, 9 and 11. Never got shown condoms. Covered STDs and gays rly

[Muct]

We don't need to cover condoms, we find enough of them on the field every lunch time.

[GommeInc]

In Year 11 we had sex education for PSHE (before that it was Year 9, then Year 7, and first showed in Year 5 and/or 6). They talked about homosexuality in Year 11, but there wasn't a lot to talk about. It was before the safe sex lesson so it was only really talked about with connections to "it's fine", "sodomy is hip nowadays" and "as long as you're safe", so nothing major.

Is someone having strong feelings again? ;)

[flatface]

Are you 50 odd?

exactly what I was thinking :S lol

but yeh we didnt really get taught sex education, instead we were taught about pregnancy n stuff