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A friend of mine is in college, and well, since I'm the only gay person she really knows, she asked me for a little help with an assignment.
She needs to know about sex education in schools, not just the USA, but around the world. She needs to know if any schools teach more than just heterosexual sex education. (as in do any of the schools teach all three, bi, gay, straight) The only other thing she needs is some sort of documentation as to where the information is coming from. Like a website, etc...
May sound funny, but I'm kinda curious too since she brought it up.
Either e-mail or reply here.
Thanks
Brian
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
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timmy
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There is a (controversial) Sex Ed programme here known as APause. http://www.ex.ac.uk/sshs/apause/ is the parent site.
It does not specifically teach, I think, about any sexaliy, simly about responsible sex.
Wehave, here, a huge misunderstanding about Section 28 of the Local Government Act which does NOT forbid education about all sexualities, but which is interpreted by many teaching staff in local government run scools as forbidding even discussion of homosexuality.
In reality a competent teacher will answer all direct quesions with a direct answer. However the objective in any education programme is to benefit the majority.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Well, first some things about the Finnish educational system. The compulsory education here in Finland is 9 grades, from ages 7-15. It's divided into lower comprehensive school (grades 1-6) and upper comprehensive school (grades 7-9). After upper comprehensive school, one has the option to go to a trade school (to become a car mechanic, hair dresser, carpenter etc.) for 3 years or senior high school, also 3 years. Senior high school is more or less same stuff (new things of course, but in more or less same manner) as comprehensive school, but it's required in order to go to a university. Trade school on the other hand teaches a profession, but there are also some educational classes there (like english, maths etc.) So after senior high school, people "are nothing" where as after trade school people have a profession and can get a job.
Now, as to sex-ed, there really isn't much. In the comprehensive school, what little there is is through biology classes. The first time the matter is brought up is 5th grade (age 11) and then "how everything works" is covered. Not from the point of view of sex, but from the point of view of biology. If a teachers wants to go deeper into the matter, or from some other point of view, it's up to him/her.
The next time the matter is brought up, is the 7th grade, but only as a replay of the 5th grade story, more or less. Again, anything more is up to the individual teacher.
Then at 9th grade STDs enter the picture. Contraception, what STDs exists, symptoms etc. Again, it's in biology class, and more or less from the point of view biology, relationships and everything like that is entirely up to the teacher. Also, the 9th grade version includes a visit by a nurse from a... ok, I have no idea what the word is in english, but it's a clinic where people can get tested for STDs and and get counselling for being a parent and other things related to the matter. The visit by my class included a lecture about personal hygiene and a show of a condom placed on a dildo (and people being 15 at the time, it was more humorous than educational).
After comprehensive school, I went to senior high, so I have no idea what is taught (if anything) in trade school. But in senior high, there's a course (three 75 minute classes a week for ~6 weeks) kept by the PE teacher where "human well being" is covered. Everything from different diseases, what kind of food to eat, mental health to how to avoid frostbites, what it takes to create a burn, severity of different burns etc. I think sex and relationships were covered in 150 minutes (2x75), with the first being about STDs and "half of" contraception, the second with "the other half of" contraception and a short speach by the teacher about relationships, responsibility etc. And that's it.
Now, the course in senior high was what I personally found best, though it didn't offer that much of new information. But, since it's recommended for people in their last year of senior high, people are about 18 and the mindless giggling and such is mostly gone. Of course, by the age of 18 quite a few kids have lost their virginity and considering that the course is a tad late.
Now, as for the same information in a documented form, I have no idea where to find it, but I'll look around and let you know if I find something. And should you or your friend (or anyone for that matter) want to ask something, feel free to email me 
Setras
That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
-Master Li in Neil Gaiman's Sandman
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Part of the project is designing a web-site, hopefully it actually materialises. We'll have to wait and see.
How bout some others? Lenny, Ashley, etc....
Thanks guys,
Brian
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
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hehe My school is the one all other schools hate. We have a psycho Sex ed teacher who teaches it all!! Like if you can think of it and it relates to sex we learned it. Where he got his info I don't know and how he keeps from getting fired I'll never know... I do say he could do to teach less on reproduction however that was jsut nasty.
~Andy
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