missgingerlee:

girlebony:

I believe I’ve seen a comprehensive description of consent once before. Figured I’d contribute as it’s a subject that bears repeating.

Consent is:

• Non-coercive: If you’re cojoling, threatening or otherwise trying to “convince” someone to engage in a…

this is quite good.  I enjoy it.  blue balls never killed anyone, cowboy, that’s why there’s a lock on the bathroom door.

You might not think “New York” when you thought “bad sex ed,” but then again, most people don’t think of New York as anything outside of New York City.

However, they are having a serious problem when it comes to sex education.  A reporter examined sex ed materials in several districts across the state and found, among other things:

• numerous medical inaccuracies (“if you get AIDS you will probably die of the disease, but that’s all we know”)
• anti-choice bias (referring to embryos as “babies”)
• inaccurate or biased medical illustrations (80% of districts use material that illustrate reproductive organs, but 2/3 of that 80% omit female external genitalia)
• handouts that portray women as “hazardous material”
• telling students vaginas are “sperm deposits”
• neglect or active stigmatization of LGBT people (either not mentioning them at all, or saying things like “homosexual attraction is a cause to seek counseling”)
• 42% do not mention sexual harassment; 28% do not mention sexual assault or rape

Things like this make me thank heaven for TJ’s health class, which was quite comprehensive in terms of sex education.  I don’t recall whether they mentioned LGBT issues, though— I’m not sure they were that progressive.