Posted on 05/10/2011 7:56:15 AM PDT by CedarDave
The class of Monte del Sol Charter School students watched and listened intently as senior Emma Campbell, with the help of a visual aid, demonstrated how to use a condom.
The 18-year-old is one of 10 teens trained by the local Planned Parenthood to give presentations on sexuality to their peers.
"We're trying to normalize sex," said Denise Jennings, Planned Parenthood in Santa Fe health educator, who trains the students and is present when they visit the schools.
"We know kids don't always go to adults to discuss sex," she said. "They will go online or to friends who may not always have the most accurate information."
Campbell, who has been with the Planned Parenthood Peer Education Program since it started in February of 2010, said it's important for peer educators to "be there" for their fellow teens. "Sex is a really hard topic for us to talk about," she said, "especially with adults or parents."
Confident and composed, she told the Monte del Sol students about the five circles of sexuality: sensuality, intimacy, sexual identity, sexual health and reproduction, and sexualization (in the Planned Parenthood parlance, using sex to manipulate others).
The students responded with comments as well as questions about IUDs (intrauterine devices), female condoms and the difference between withholding sex from your partner and having a lower sex drive than your partner.
"We're taking it more seriously because it's one of us talking," 12th-grader Leah Tatom said of the class.
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If only that were true, as it should be, especially for kids who need to be learning so much more about life, morals, relationships, math, English, science, literature, history..., things that make intelligent, well balanced adults, capable of having rewarding personal, social and working relationships. Instead we have teenagers discussing whether or not they should be withholding sex from their partners. Home school!
They want teenagers to be the ones teaching "safe sex" and then they make money off the resulting abortions? Less enlightened people might consider that a conflict of interest.
Haven't teens been "teaching" sexuality to their peers since the beginning of time?
What adults should be doing is teaching teens the spiritual and moral dimensions of and appropriate circumstances for that "learning experience".
Jeez...In other news today... WILE E COYOTE will be teaching LIBERALS how to catch the ROADRUNNER!!! :-)
Wow-Thanks much for the heads up and info.
We’re going to stay at the La Quinta Inn on Cerrillos Rd. and during the day we’ll be at the Convention Center on Marcy St.
Your dig on the Road Runner is perfect..
It sounds like another socialist Utopia called the People’s Republic of Boulder, CO.
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