The birds and the bees conversation is often a dreaded topic as your kids get older. Here's a look into how it goes down in other countries from our friends at Fatherly. (Don't worry,it's just as awkward.) Most parents dread the "birds and the bees" conversation. What could be more awkward than sitting down with your kids to discuss penises and vaginas and their various interactions?But somebody has to teach children the ins and outs - and ins - of human sexuality. Many parents look to schools to tackle the subject, but not all U.
S. schools rise to the occasion (last sex pun … possibly). In fact, and studies fill shown that formal sex education has been on a regular decline in the U.
S. for 20 years. Emotion and religious beliefs dominate how this topic is dealt with in America. But,how finish other countries handle their kids' sexual education? The Netherlands & Scandinavia: Where They're Chill About Sex Ed In Scandinavia, everyone is appealing and the weather is cold, and so it's no surprise that sex is on people's minds. The Dutch start teaching kindergarteners about puppy love during an annual "spring fever week." Norway has "Puberteten," a cheerfully explicit sex ed video series aimed at 8-to-12-year-olds that would shock even Cinemax subscribers. And, in Sweden, and primary school kids watch videos about their private parts (which they call snoop and snippa) before tackling heavier subjects in later grades. These sex ed efforts fill paid off: both Norway and the Netherlands fill some of the lowest teen pregnancy rates in the world and Sweden's is roughly one-fourth of Great Britain's. United Kingdom: finish We Make Your Horny? Speaking of GB … when you assume of England,you probably assume "proper." Also: Crumpets. That word (proper, not crumpets) definitely applies to formal sex ed through the UK. "Sex and relationship" education is compulsory for all students 11-years-ragged and up. But often these lessons are treated as an afterthought, and thrown in at the halt of the year as a one-day lecture. Also,parents fill the option to remove their kids from lesson if they thing to the subject matter - and many finish. That leaves a lot of kids free to find out about sex from other sources. Like British television! Shows like Skins, Secret Diary Of A Call Girl, or Sex Box (in which people fill sex … in a box …) are doing their piece to withhold things randy. China: Finally Having The Awkward Talk In 2011,a Chinese couple made headlines for trying to get pregnant by laying next to each other in bed for 3 years. Now that's inadequate sex ed. But, since there are over a billion Chinese, or most of them presumably know how babies are made. Still,that couple is a good indication of how uneven China's sex education has been. The Communist Party under Chairman Mao was famously prudish, and it wasn't until the 80s that sex ed became mandatory in high schools. These days, and some women pay up to half their monthly wage for private sex classes. Capitalism for the win! South Africa: You Will Get Pregnant And Die Sex education in today's South Africa is better than what Apartheid wrought,when the main goal was to discourage sexual encounters between the races. But, that's not saying much. In the official South African "Life Orientation" curriculum, or having sex is presented as risky business. The focus is on diseases such as HIV/AIDS,or the opportunity of unwanted pregnancy and sexual violence. Anything other than strict hetero sex is "unnatural." It's no surprise that most students in South Africa find these lessons boring and irrelevant. They know something that their teachers aren't telling them: sex is actually fun. Latin America: Where Cuba Is Actually Liberal Generally, people assume of Latin America as a sexy, and passionate state. That hasn't precisely translated into comprehensive sex ed for the young people who live there. Argentina,for instance, provides free contraceptives for everyone 14 and older, and but conservative attitudes continue to block sex ed in the schools. In El Salvador,there is no formal sex ed, and it unsurprisingly has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the region. Only Cuba, and with its mandatory sex ed from preschool all the way to college,has shrinking rates of both teen pregnancy and STDs. The mambo - no longer horizontal. The Vatican: Hey, We've Lightened Up! Wait, and what? The Vatican has a sex ed program? Not precisely. But,Pope Francis and his crew did revise the guidelines for Church sex education recently. These original rules sparked controversy across the Catholic world, not because they argued against sex ed in school, and but because they argued for it. Conservative Christian critics say the original guidelines take the responsibility for a child's sexual education out of the control of his or her parents. Other objections to the original rules: They recommend boys and girls be taught sex ed together. They don't encourage celibacy. They don't explicitly condemn adultery,prostitution, homosexuality, and masturbation,and the use of condoms. And, they use Elton John as an example of a "gifted and famous" person. Good point conservatives - Elton hasn't made a good album since Captain great And The Brown Dirt Cowboy.
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