I honestly don't remember what sort sex ed my school ended up doing. I mean, I know we spent like, a day, maybe two, on it. And by day or two, I mean two class periods on the outside, so less than two hours. Some point in high school. Once. North Florida, rural school (graduating class was something less than 200, iirc.), for the curious.
Probably somewhere in the late nineties. I don't even remember what year I graduated *vague shrug*
I remember the classrooms had white stone walls. I remember absolutely nothing else. It... doesn't speak highly of that school's sex ed program, at least at the time. M'not even sure if they segregated it by gender or not. Remember there were a good three or four folks knocked up (that I was aware of. Probably more I wasn't. Didn't exactly keep a hand on the school pulse.) before I got out, and teenage pregnancies were pretty common in the area regardless (Madre taught/teaches the adult school, which picks up dropouts, so... yeah).
Most of what I hear regardless of that points to sex ed in the states being able to stand some improvement, in general. As noted, less shock images, more facts. More realization that abstinence isn't really going to happen and pushing the fallback positions is probably the best idea. Frankly, if for whatever reason the institutions involved can't avoid going in the other direction and offering a "buffet of ways to have sex"... so long as the bit before this sentence goes through, I honestly don't think I care. It's not like it's not readily available online, already, with a hilariously minimal amount of effort, whereas solid advice re: issues-beyond-pleasure-and-experimentation takes considerably more effort to find and sift through.
If you're looking to minimize damage, it might even be
better to get that "buffet" with less of the sex industry trappings involved, for all that American society, at least, almost certainly isn't ready for going that direction. Still a hell of a lot of social pressure against
anything involving a healthier attitude toward the subject in this country
I can't escape tension at work or at home, and I don't even know how to describe what it's doing to me. Like it's harder all the time to fall back into a normal state of being after some emotional or anxiety-inducing event.
Sounds like plain ol' long term stress, t'me, after it's been piling on for a while without a chance to degauss. Which... yeah, been there a few times, if probably not as intensely as you are at th'mo'. It sucks.