Whilst agonising over my indecision demons, I came across this enchanting little video on YouTube. Take a look.

The Story - Sex Education
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNkV-UdwJcg

Do I now have a topic I can vent about? You bet your ass I do. (Why I'd want to win your ass is beyond me, but whatever floats your boat.)

Let me lay down for ya all the sex education I've ever had: When I was ten or perhaps slightly after, the music teacher drew us aside and, in so many words, proceeded to tell us that sex is a cool thing. Afterwards, I moved to a new place, and the new school's sex-ed consisted of pretty much just a bored woman not even trying to control a classroom of rowdy boys. Yes, that particular school was segregated. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Thankfully, I have very understanding parents. Well, that is to say my father is very understanding. He taught me about sex looong before I even entered school. I really can't remember exactly when it was - it was that long ago. I don't even recall him actually teaching me, per se: I've just always kinda had the knowledge, as though it was instinctual. I can't understand how people could not know how sex works. Still, I have heard about women in the Middle East having to be admitted to hospital due to having bruising all around the navel, so I suppose it is an issue.

If there was one thing on this Earth that I could abolish, do you know what it would be? Well, neither do I, but it would probably be a tie between conservatism and organised religion. Then again, the two are pretty much synonymous, are they not? The way I see it, those two things (and more - let us not forget that this is an issue far more complicated than I can ever fully outline here) are principally responsible for the sexual climate we have in the world today.

It's information that these kids need! Without it, dumbass things like a 13-year-old kid having a child happen! And not only information - understanding. I mean, real personal stuff, you know? I like the idea the Dutch have about learning to respect one's body. I mean, I've never been to the Netherlands, but just that snippet of information made me feel really positive about the holiday to Amsterdam I shall be taking not too far in the future. They sound really groovy, a'ight?

So, yes. What is it that's lacking in modern sex-education? Actually, let me rephrase that to highlight the problem: what's lacking in sex education? Because the way I see it, there ain't anything 'modern' about it. What I've heard from my friends of their sex education is a mixture of being shouted at about STDs and being told to use a condom. Yeah. Really informative. That really does help us teens to understand the beautiful and yet potentially dangerous nature of something that people the world-over do every day. I suppose it wouldn't be so bad if the parents themselves seemed to know what they were doing, but sadly, they don't seem to.

To demonstrate just how annoyingly irrational this problem is, let me present you with an analogous situation. Learning about sex is kind of a rite of passage, yes? One of the necessary steps to becoming an adult. Weerrll, one could argue that driving is also a rite of passage - one of the keys to becoming an adult. People die in car accidents or have their lives ruined by crash-injuries. People die of STDs and have their lives ruined by same, or by having to raise a child whilst still young and unsuited to such a task. Learning to drive a car is a process strictly regulated by law. Sex is also a process strictly regulated by law. When you learn to drive, you have an instructor guiding you every step of the way as you learn, then an examiner to tell you if/when you're finally good enough to be unleashed upon an unsuspecting public. When you learn to have sex...

Ah. See the craziness at work here? Following this logic, letting people into the adult world without sex-education is kinda like letting people onto the road without any car-handling skills. The only difference is, sex is a biological imperative. I don't know about you, but personally I don't go crazy at the thought of driving a car (you pervert). Whereas it is fully possible that someone may go through life not having driven a car, I find it extremely doubtful that any normal person (which excludes people who have taken a vow of chastity - damn all organised religion to HELL!) would go through their whole life without having sex.

Why do I find this issue so particularly vexing? I'll tell you why. Because they're in my head. That's right: those conservative bastards have conditioned me into being all 'Oh no, sex - let's talk about something else'. I will not, however, let them defeat me just yet. Like all powerful things, sex has the ability to be either beautiful or destructive, and by having been educated by someone who understands both the subject and myself, I feel I may be able to get through alright. (Well... once I've found someone with whom I can have it, of course... GAH!)

However, there are many poor sods out there who don't have a clue that by doing that thing which everyone told them feels oh-so good and has no bad consequences whatsoever, they are in fact fucking up their own lives. I think we should do something about this. Don't you?