Sex education program in New Brunswick

[ckramer]

FREDERICTON (CP) - A new sex education program in New Brunswick, which includes such topics as masturbation, orgasm and oral sex, has raised new questions about the place of the birds and the bees in the modern classroom.

A growing number of parents are demanding removal of the new curriculum.

"This curriculum is an assault on the children of New Brunswick," says Dr. Carolyn Barry, a physician in the Fredericton area and mother of six children.

"Children are 10 and 11 when they start this program in Grade 6, and they are being presented with concepts of oral sex, mutual masturbation, anal sex, oral-anal sex. It absolutely contravenes our community standards."

The controversy in the Maritime province shows that although sex education is now a basic fact of life in most Canadian classrooms, it still has the power to stir deep-seated feelings about how much children should learn about sex, and when.

Barry and other parents who have expressed their outrage at public meetings around the province say the new sex-ed curriculum will create a more sexually permissive, anything-goes society.

"It will change the culture of New Brunswick," she says.

Some parents say they want a program that talks more about abstinence.

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[HEyHEY]

1. Umm...as past NB dweller I feel I should mention

""It will change the culture of New Brunswick," she says."


That is a load of bullshit.

I got more...uh....action in NB than ANYWHERE. They also have a high birthrate among teens and everyone I knew was extremely sexually active.

Kinda makes me wanna go back.

[Boswells_Johnson]

7. Saint John must be the Single Teen Parent Capital of the World

[Maple]

2. You can also

remove your kid from the class. They never mention that part.

[HEyHEY]

3. Why would they?

They're busy trying to raise everyone elses kids too.

[Nikia]

4. That's actually a good idea

These practices are quite common amongst teens but many younger teens are ignorant about them until they are asked to perform them. Even after they perform them, they might be ignorant about the fact that anal and oral sex can also cause STDs. Really, in some cases, I think that being sheltered is worse for the kids. These kids need to be educated about these practices and their risks correctly, not by older kids who want sex with them.

[ChairOne]

6. I think you mean "oral sex can also TRANSMIT STDs"?

Which is quite different from CAUSING it, in the sense of creating it when it wasn't already there in the first place...

[jayctravis]

5. hee hee hee...

I love how they make a distinction that "oral-anal" sex does not seem to be covered under "oral" sex.

Is "oral-oral" okay, or "oral-elbow" or "oral-breastal"?

Thank goodness they aren't being taught about "penile-vaginal" or even "penile-penile-anal/vaginal" or "penile/oral-vaginal-vaginal" for those "lucky" guys and gals who have lots of open-minded friends.