Do any of you guys remember your sex education classes? I remember mine and they were shit. Porn was better. I had my first sex education classes when I was 11, where the teachers divided the boys and the girls up and showed us a bunch of videos that depicted what a pussy and a cock looks like. After a couple of videos about the lady\u2019s \u2018usual thing\u2019 and the guy\u2019s \u2018usual thing\u2019 too, then came the big video about intercourse that made my entire circle of friends giggle at the back of the classroom. <\/p>\n
I will always remember the one line that the narrator said in a way to describe sex: \u2018It\u2019s like jigsaw puzzle fitting together\u2026\u2019 Even when I was 11-years-old when I watched that video, I really wanted to shout out: \u2018Who says that?!\u2019<\/p>\n
One year later, I started secondary school and the head teachers wanted to teach the girls, again, about the lady\u2019s \u2018usual thing’… After a couple of lessons of teaching me what I already knew about my cycle, they’ve stopped giving us sex education classes. To this day, I kept thinking to myself: \u2018Were they really lessons about sex?\u2019 <\/p>\n
When I turned 15, I\u2019ve started noticing a couple of my friends hooking up with other guys and make out on the sofa whenever we\u2019d have a house party. There was one dude in our group who was branded as the \u2018porn-junkie\u2019. I didn’t like him much; he acted like he knew everything even though he was only 16.<\/p>\n
He spoke about nearly every weird and extreme forms of sex that he had found from websites like \u2018RedTube\u2019 and \u2018PornHub\u2019<\/strong>. Then, one year later, he started talking about his dirty anecdotes about his sex life with his fuck buddies. I kept thinking to myself:<\/p>\n \u2018Dude, how the hell do you know about fucking another girl when we weren\u2019t even taught about it in our sex education classes?\u2019 <\/p>\n If you think about it, it\u2019s scary that teenagers are learning about sex through porn, because everyone knows that porn sex isn\u2019t the same as sex in your own bedroom. Porn doesn\u2019t teach you that having sex is a two-way street<\/strong>, where you have to learn to respect each other in order to enjoy sex in the first place. It doesn\u2019t teach you how to be intimate with someone if you\u2019ve have a boyfriend or a girlfriend. I believe that learning about sex through porn gives you the notion that you\u2019d have the ability to walk before you can crawl. <\/p>\n Before you make an assumption on what my overall opinion is about sex, no, I don\u2019t think porn is poison. What adolescent people don\u2019t realize is that porn isn\u2019t exactly teen-friendly. Why do you think that on every porn website that you go on, they\u2019d have a pop-up banner on the home page that\u2019d say: \u201cDo not enter this site if you are under 18.\u201d Or: \u201cDo not enter this site if you\u2019re below the minimum age in the country that you\u2019re in.\u201d<\/p>\n I have a worrying assumption that teenagers who are between 16-18 years old who watch porn don\u2019t know that you can hurt a woman during hardcore sex, you can\u2019t keep having a hard-on for 2 hours straight or that some positions are harder to perform than they look. The theory of why adolescent people learn about sex through porn is not that hard to fathom.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not saying that sex education classes are useless when they teach the people about sex itself, but I think that they\u2019re not adequate enough to make the people learn and understand the subject as a whole.<\/strong> From my perspective, it doesn\u2019t teach you about the feelings you produce when you get horny, how men and women orgasm at different time, or how when someone says no that he or she means no. <\/p>\n They are important things that should be taught, I believe, in the classroom where you\u2019d have a mature teacher who can answer any question that you\u2019d have in your head. Of course, you\u2019d have the usual 15-year-old delinquents who would shout out \u2018Eww!\u2019 whenever they see a cock on the screen, but it would be better than seeing it in a porn video when you\u2019re at that age. <\/p>\n I\u2019ve had friends at my old sixth form college whose hearts got broken because their partners only wanted to have sex, or caused a lot of hassles whenever they\u2019ve had sex. In my generation, we had to learn about sex practically with only porn to guide us through the different positions that we put ourselves into.<\/strong><\/p>\n Ok, I remember watching a lot of porn where they were mainly compilations of a bunch of couples doing it in the doggy-style position. The first time that I\u2019ve tried doing that position was with my first boyfriend and we\u2019ve failed miserably. We\u2019ve failed so hard that I couldn\u2019t even bring myself to explain what had happened; that\u2019s how bad it was!<\/p>\n Of course, we\u2019ve managed to work out how to do the doggy-style position properly and it was and still is one of my most favourite positions to do during sex.<\/strong> My small anecdote is one of the many clear examples of how some positions in porn do not always work out in the bedroom.<\/p>\n Everyone is going to have their different opinions on whether we, as adults, should teach teenagers more elaborate information about sex. Not everyone would agree with me and think about how difficult it would be to explain the subject to adolescent people who don\u2019t fully understand the concept behind it or the different kinds of concepts overall. However, I am still sticking to my guns at the notion that sex education classes are not teaching teenagers enough about sex and the other topics that would follow the subject.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do any of you guys remember your sex education classes? I remember mine and they were shit. Porn was better. I had my first sex education classes when I was 11, where the teachers divided the boys and the girls up and showed us a bunch of videos that depicted what a pussy and a cock looks like. After a couple of videos about the lady\u2019s \u2018usual thing\u2019 and the guy\u2019s \u2018usual thing\u2019 too, then came the big video about intercourse that made my entire circle of friends giggle at the back of the classroom. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":18735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[498,46,8,953,952],"class_list":["post-2504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discussion","tag-discussion-2","tag-porn","tag-sex","tag-sex-ed","tag-sex-education"],"yoast_head":"\nWhat sex education has failed to teach us<\/h2>\n
Is porn a better teacher?<\/h2>\n