The Sex Questions From Seventh Graders Tumblr that went viral before being yanked from the web was full of some of the most off-the-wall questions about human anatomy I think I've heard in a long time. Come to think of it, I haven't heard any of this since, well, middle school.
They're downright hilarious. But they're also downright terrifying!
The handwritten sex questions were allegedly put up by a teacher who kept her (or his?) identity anonymous. How it was pulled off Tumblr, and how the accompanying Twitter account disappeared, isn't clear. But sites that picked up photos of the notecard show some poorly spelled questions:
I heard that guys can have sex until they die is that true
Does porn make your sperm stronger
How do the sperms move? Can your eggs brake?
Is there other ways to have a baby but without having sex?
Go ahead. Laugh.
OK, now that you're done, can we talk about sex education for a second here? It's still a controversial issue in America thanks to puritanical parents who refuse to look at the facts: kids have questions about sex. If we're not answering those questions, these are the kinds of things they think are true ... that porn will make their sperm stronger, that their eggs will "brake."
The problem is kids talk about sex ... a lot. And when we're not giving them good information to use in those talks, things get dangerous. The myth I still recall being whispered in the locker room dealt with the best way to prevent pregnancy: by peeing after sex. Can you imagine how many pregnant teenagers that little bit of "birth control" created?
I've said it before, and I'll say it again and again ... I don't want to be a young grandmother. But if we don't tell kids the truth about sex, they're going to keep on believing in myths and fairy tales. And myths and fairy tales aren't funny when they start screaming at 2 a.m. for a diaper change, are they?
What's your take on the Sex Questions From Seventh Graders? Funny or scary?
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I never left sex-ed up to the school. Ok, the basic anatomy I expected them to teach(I don't really ahve those diagrams just laying around) but I always made sure my 14 yr old could come to me and answered every silly question he could fire at me. I didn't want a 'sex and any mention of it is forbidden' attitude. Not only is it a natural function but it permeates our society. Of course they are going to hear crazy rumors and theories. Educated your kids, before someone else fails to.
I had the sex ed class in 4th and they didnt talk about sex or babies just a sugar coated version of body changes and what a period was the next yr 5th grade i swiched schools and a coulpe girls were already having sex!!! Then b4 I ever got the talk i had to go and tell my mom i thought i was pregnant at 13 just turned 14 yrs old, i knew about condoms but thought u had to be 18 to buy one so i didnt use one...then she just put me on the pill...sex ed sucks!! I remember a girl in summer camp when i was 8 told me she wasnt a virgin that she was raped and was too scared to tell i was a stupid kid and never said anything either...i feel bad about it now! They need to start talking to thes kids alot younger and really talk not sugar coated either real talk!
My 40-something year old father (who has been with 30+ women, he doesn't even know [worked as a bouncer at a club when he was young]) told me a few months ago, something about how "it is impossible for a woman to get pregnant for a few days after their period because they don't ovulate then."
I tried to educate him and he said, "Well I'm going to have to look that up."
I wonder how many children he actually has?!
This is scarier to me than it is funny. Although I love hearing/reading dumb questions for their humor value, the fact that these kids are already seventh-graders and don't know much about sex really bothers me. I was very curious about sex when I was a kid, but the very word 'sex' was never uttered in our household, so I went to the library and brought home a stack of anatomy/physiology books and found out for myself - and that was when I was ten. I don't understand why there aren't more kids doing the same thing. Of course, it's ideal to get the information from your parents (provided they actually have their facts straight), but when a kid's family is not on board with talking about it, there is no reason that they can't do some research.
Im still educating my 35 year old husband on his own anatomy... can we safely say the Talk will rely on me? (I have 2 boys)
When I was in Middle School, I had learned about sex and all the other things that come with it. I learned the facts about sex, but when I was 18 my first time having sex I got pregnant. That's why when my son is in middle school, I'm going to let him know everything I was informed of and ask him to please try and wait. I'd rather my son not be like his dad with two kids and not even 20 yet.
An additional note (inspired by other posters' memories of sex ed): I went to a Catholic school, which is hardly the place for straight-talk about sex. In fifth grade, our homeroom teacher began to teach us her version of sex education, which was largely based on the information in her manual and her personal "knowledge". I remember correcting her on the size of a man's testicles; she was convinced that they were the size of grapes, and I kept telling her that they were closer to the size of chestnuts. Is such a fact crucial? No, but it bothered me to think that this woman did not even have the basic information on anatomy, so how could I trust the more in-depth information she was spewing at us? It's a shame that I couldn't have just gone to my mother for information; she admitted to me that when she had sex ed in school, she had no interest in it and stared out the window the whole time. Thanks, Mom.