Public School Sex Ed Class Could Inform On Oral Sex And Bestiality (VIDEO) (POLL)

Sexual education classes at NYC public high schools and middle schools might feature some usually unmentioned lessons next year.

Among those lessons? Bestiality, anal sex, oral, sex, phone sex, porn and more, WSBT reports.

According to the report, the Department of Education has recommended students learn "everything there is to know about sex" in the new curriculum.

The New York Post reviewed the potential workbooks and posted a list of some of the lesson assignments:

• High-school students go to stores and jot down condom brands, prices and features such as lubrication.
• Teens research a route from school to a clinic that provides birth control and STD tests, and write down its confidentiality policy.
• Kids ages 11 and 12 sort “risk cards” to rate the safety of various activities, including “intercourse using a condom and an oil-based lubricant,’’ mutual masturbation, French kissing, oral sex and anal sex.
• Teens are referred to resources such as Columbia University’s Web site Go Ask Alice, which explores topics like “doggie-style” and other positions, “sadomasochistic sex play,” phone sex, oral sex with braces, fetishes, porn stars, vibrators and bestiality.

This comes after Deputy Mayor Linda Gibbs commended the DOE in August for giving students the necessary information about sexual activity, and what choices are available to them, NBC New York reported.

Lesson plans will also talk about french kissing, condoms and lubricants, and mutual masturbation.

While some parents worry that the curriculum could make some sexual activities seem appealing, one New York City father told WSBT that he doesn't see a problem with it.

"I think it's a good idea," he told the station. "They're going to have sex. They know it exists. Teaching them about it in my mind doesn't sanction it or encourage it."

The new lessons could make their way into classrooms as soon as this spring, as well as a free condom program at every NYC public school, as sex education is becoming more commonplace in schools -- and among younger students. D.C. Public Schools announced last month, in a move that's the first of its kind in the country, that students in grades 5, 8 and 10 will be administered standardized tests on sexuality, contraception and drug use.

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Comments

[Emily Avent Havener]

04:27 PM on 10/26/2011

Obviously sex education needs to be taught, since so many parents are ineffective in discussing it. Why not, instead of encouraging kids to go to an impersonal, perhaps overly graphic website, make an anonymous question-and-answer session possible? Or set up a site just for kids under 18 who have questions about sex? That way they get anonymity and personal, specific answers without being exposed to unnecessary content.
One other thought: telling kids that they will want to have sex probably before they're ready to make an informed, intelligent decision to do so is key. We're so obsessed with telling kids not to have sex, but not that the desire to have sex can emotionally and physically overwhelm the common sense and safety we are trying to teach them about it. This will better prepare them to distinguish between something "feeling right" and good decision making, and it will make sex seem less like a dirty, taboo thing that they shouldn't want to have and should avoid discussing with adults.

[Elizabeth Walton]

09:52 PM on 10/26/2011

Have you actually looked at the site? There is nothing overly graphic about it.

[Conuly]

08:38 AM on 10/27/2011

There's nothing even remotely graphic about it, actually. Did you visit it? Visit it FIRST, then comment.

[englishman545]

01:39 PM on 10/26/2011

To begin with teenagers don't listen, you could have testimonials from people who have suffered from the consequences and it will fall on deaf ears.

We (the older generation) all grew up with our parents telling us and riding herd on us or we learned from our friends.

More time should be spent on the main subjects, English, Math, Social Studies.

[Tolms]

11:52 AM on 10/26/2011

OK this article's headline is misleading to say the least.

[setanta54]

12:48 AM on 10/26/2011

you are able to opt out and over here is the law and a basic letter--......
http://www.nycparentschoice.org/take-action/opt-your-kids-out

[Scottt01]

07:12 PM on 10/26/2011

Forget opting out; let’s not let these freaks and their freak agenda opt in. This is all an attempt to get America to tolerate the sexualizing of our children. Liberals want to take this sexualizing of our children WAY beyond a classroom education!

[Elizabeth Walton]

11:01 PM on 10/26/2011

or you could actually read what it is that you are protesting and see that it is not at all scary and harmful.

[foresure]

11:19 PM on 10/25/2011

In seventh grade my "social hygiene" course a/k/a sex ed course, was organized and paid for by the PTA. It was conducted in the basement of one of the students, separate presentations for each gender.

MY SOLUTION:

Hire a respected publisher, perhaps, Life/Time Books, to produce a series of short 10 minute videos at various grade levels and on various subjects.

Textbook publishers to be prohibited from bidding on the offer.

Each video on a separate disk. Each programmed to be played only a limited number of times, until it stops playing.

Each video, mailed in "plain wrapping" to the parent of the child.

On-line the parents can acknowledge receipt of the video, and give or deny permission for the child to see the video, and the child will be allowed to view it in private., if the child so chooses.

For families without ability to use a video, the kid could view the video at school, in private, with the permission of his parents, who could call in permission.

A postage pre-paid envelope to be included with the video, to be returned if the parent refuses permission, or after the video has been viewed.

This avoids embarassment for the teacher, children or parents. It avoid class disruption.

Off Point:

If you want to see a hilarious British film, in which one scene involves a high school "sex ed" class, Google the movie. "IF". That's its full name "IF".

[Elizabeth Walton]

11:02 PM on 10/26/2011

or you could just teach a class like a grown up and not act like everyone should be ashamed of having body parts.

[Atwill]

10:31 PM on 10/25/2011

So many of you really think that kids are stupid. they know of these thing already. When my kid came out and told me he is gay , i sat him and his boyfriend down and told them about safe sex and then gave them money for condoms. And they were 15. I told them I didnt want them to have sex, but I also told them I was not stupid. I was 15 once.

[Ainsi sera groigne qui]

10:04 PM on 10/25/2011

This is what comes from letting a little tyrant purchase himself and the City Council a third term. How he, they and the rest of the bleeding heart liberals who made the thing happen can continue to remake NYC into their own image.

[savedlori]

09:09 PM on 10/25/2011

I would not want my child directed to a website to view material that I would not allow them to view under any other circumstances. It is the parents' responsibility to teach this information to children and to decide when the child is exposed. Unless you work in a middle school with hormones raging, and students becoming more sexually promiscuous everyday, you can't decide what and when this material should be taught. That's the problem now; children being exposed to way too much sexually explicit material, way too soon

[Elizabeth Walton]

09:54 PM on 10/26/2011

go look at the website, it is not what you seem to think it is.

[elblanc0]

08:37 PM on 10/25/2011

Keep in mind that the NYP is a sensationalist tabloid and they're the source of the story, which seems a little hard to believe. I'll wait until the curriculum is actually released to see for myself.

[setanta54]

12:49 AM on 10/26/2011

post isn't making this up at all.

[Conuly]

10:05 PM on 10/26/2011

And you have evidence where?

[Elizabeth Walton]

11:05 PM on 10/26/2011

go look at the website Go Ask Alice. It is nothing like what was described as :
"Teens are referred to resources such as Columbia University’s Web site Go Ask Alice, which explores topics like “doggie-style” and other positions, “sadomasochistic sex play,” phone sex, oral sex with braces, fetishes, porn stars, vibrators and bestiality."

This is not the curriculum, it is one web site mentioned and those topics are the most shocking and LEAST discussed.

[Elizabeth Walton]

09:54 PM on 10/26/2011

the wording is: Teens are referred to resources such as Columbia University’s Web site Go Ask Alice, which explores topics like “doggie-style” and other positions, “sadomasochistic sex play,” phone sex, oral sex with braces, fetishes, porn stars, vibrators and bestiality.

The actual website is not nearly as fascinating as they are making it sound.

[acn1359]

08:37 PM on 10/25/2011

BEASTIALY DOES'T MPREGNATE NOR DOE SSODOMY SO MANY UNWANTED CHILDREN HOW MANY CASSY ANTHONYS DO WE NEED

[acumenguy]

07:07 PM on 10/25/2011

The child’s primary method of learning in vicarious. That is: Learning by observation and imitation. The primary teachers are parents, teachers, and other grown-ups.
What follows is not “rocket science.”
If the grown-ups in the child’s life focus on stuff like, art, music, science, catching, throwing, recreation, sailing, canoeing, tree climbing, making mud pies, stomping in rain puddles, baking cookies, being down-right silly, making faces, belling laughing, going booga-booga-booga for no particular reason …. Guess what the child will value and try to imitate.
If the grown-ups in the child’s life focus on stuff like, yea baby yea baby yea, turn over .. no, not that way, THAT WAY!!! Yes, now …. Work it … work it … work it … don’t stop. Guess what the child will value and try to imitate.
Now, complete this Pink Floyd lyric: “Hey! Teachers ………….

[Grouchland]

08:05 PM on 10/25/2011

WOW! I wish that this was true. Then kids would be a lot more capable of taking care of themselves. I think you are wrong. We teach about abstenance and the students in NYC get raped in stairways. We talk about Bullying and the kids stand up to the bully? Or do we give them better ideas on how to bully? Listen, I see nothing harmful in FACTS. After all.... did you ever learn the facts from your friends? I remember a friend in 1988 who thought you could get pregnant from kissing in a bathing suit.

[acumenguy]

09:03 PM on 10/25/2011

" I remember a friend in 1988 who thought you could get pregnant from kissing in a bathing suit. "
-I'll bet your friend grew up and learned otherwise. Did it take a teacher to bring him to this reality?
I (and friends of mine) used to believe in Santa Clause. We didn't need the Bd. of Ed. to teach us otherwise.
"We teach about abstenance and the students in NYC get raped in stairways."
-Specious argument. What does teaching about abstenance have to do with criminal sexual assault? Besides, did I suggest anything that promotes a "abstinance only" curriculum? Please don't try that Macarthy crap with me, Jr. My arguments stand on their own merit.

[setanta54]

12:51 AM on 10/26/2011

so being nyc is anti_gun why aren't they teaching firearm safety,target shooting etc ?

[acumenguy]

06:38 PM on 10/25/2011

I just had a flash-back.
Any one remember that skit in Monty Python's Meaning of Life where the teacher demonstrates in class with his wife?
Leave it to the Pythons. They saw this "coming" *rim-shot* decades ago.

[acumenguy]

06:25 PM on 10/25/2011

In the T.V. industry, this has come to be know as "Jumping the shark." (Happy Days desperate attempt to hold on to the show's viewing audience)

[Atwill]

10:28 PM on 10/25/2011

and they held on for another 5 years of so.

[Genny Kelley]

04:34 PM on 10/25/2011

This in my opinion is not only "Psychologically Abusive", it's also gonna make our Mental health care system busier AND our legal system richer!

[Grouchland]

08:06 PM on 10/25/2011

WOW clearly you do not believe in arming kids with the truth or facts.

[Surfer9]

10:44 PM on 10/25/2011

Who decides what's "Truth"? Local parents just found out that their friendly Planned Parenthood Sex Ed Instructor was teaching students in their school the perfect usage rates of birth control (99% pill, 98% condom), when even adults as a whole don't achieve perfect usage rates.

According to Planned Parenthood's own research arm, the Guttmacher Inst., poor girls 20 and under cohabitating using the pill have a 48.4% chance of getting pregnant in one year. Same girl using a condom has 71.7% chance of getting pregnant in one year. Check it out yourself, scroll to table 2 www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3105699.html

marie Stopes, U.K.'s abortion provider said in 2007 that 21% of women seeking abortions were using at least 2 methods of bc when they conceived.

[setanta54]

12:52 AM on 10/26/2011

beastiality is the truth of what ? condoms ? promiscuity ? where's the truth ?

[ycr]

01:44 PM on 10/25/2011

They better make sure they get consent from the animal before intercourse.