asexuality should be taught in health classes. bisexuality should be taught in health classes. being gay/lesbian should be taught in health classes. pansexuality should be taught in health classes. all sexualities should be taught in health classes. can’t believe this is a thing people are legitimately arguing about.
Asexuality should not be taught in health classes because teenagers are still young and may not know whether they are capable of feeling sexual attraction or not why is this so hard for you people to get Jesus Christ
Car safety should not be taught because kids are too young to know if they’ll ever own a car and might not be capable of driving one
Personal experience here: I got my sexual health education in Grade 6 in the early 1980s. The sum total of discussion about bisexuality in that textbook?
“Same-sex crushes in adolescence is normal, and do not necessarily indicate that you’ll become homosexual.”
Needless to say, not having any accurate information that bisexuality existed really screwed me up when I did become sexually active 8 years later.
I really don’t understand the second poster’s point of view here.
Sure, teenagers may not know whether they are capable of feeling sexual attraction or not at this point in time, but they’re not stupid.
If you tell a teenager something like “some people don’t feel sexual attraction until later in their development, and some people never end up feeling sexual attraction at all,” they’ll still figure it out if/when it hits them.
In the mean time, as a thirty-three year old woman who spent FIFTEEN YEARS waiting for “sexual attraction” to finally kick in, before I finally learned enough about asexuality to realize that it applied to me?
I could have really used that fucking health class.
Sixteen to seventeen years, here, and I could have really used something other than: it’ll happen eventually – you’ll get married someday, and “your desire will be for your husband”. (That’s Genesis 3:16.) Would’ve been really nice to know that there were options that were not marrying a man or (in)voluntary celibacy. I was never interested in marriage, especially the skewed view I was given of what it should be, and the thought of answering to a man in my everyday life made me cringe. So, yeah. Not telling me it was an option just made me think I was wrong somehow, especially with all the talk of everyone struggling with sexual urges. Don’t even get me started on “True Love Waits.”
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