John Oliver on the brutal state of sex-ed in America

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It seems like you have to meet certain bench marks within a 100 day period? so maybe yours is consistency (you engage when here, but not for 100 days consecutively) and for me, it seems like I just need to read posts and comments?

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@slybevel

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I donā€™t remember what grade it was (probably 5th or 6th), but we also had someone living with HIV come in to talk to us. In Iowa. He said he got it from a blood transfusion, not sexual activity, but it was still a very meaningful experience for the students and Iā€™m quite grateful to the guy for doing it.

In middle school we also had an outside sex educator (who was much more engaging than the awkward health teacher who did the regular sex ed stuff) who was famed for his line about how if a guy tells a girl heā€™s too big for a condom, she should run away because heā€™s probably too big for her, too. Heā€™d then stretch a standard sized condom over his fist and roll it down to his elbow to prove the point. And he was a big muscular guy with some serious forearms.

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Thank you.

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Take it to a meta topic please, donā€™t clutter topics.

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Iā€™ve never smuggled anything into Canada, but my grandfather and I smuggled a 40 Gallon cooler worth of frogs out of British Columbia to try and colonize the artificial wetland he built in his back yard. I was too young and stupid and he was too old and ornery to understand how profoundly bad the idea was.

It was successful though, for about 3 summers we had delightful frogsong back there, but they were all dead or had hopped away by year 5.

I really hope we didnā€™t do too much ecological damage. It was tons of fun frog catching up at that lake in Kamloops, but a 40 gallon coolerā€™s worth is a lot of frogs, like, maybe a hundred or more.

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WTF is Zardoz about
watch it again and report back.

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I barely kept my sanity the first time!

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I love Zardoz! I think it has tremendous re-watch value.

And bringing the discussion back on-topic, I would much preferred to be touch-taught (like in Zardoz) sex education in school than to have a few abstract discussions about it. In most areas of life, people are taught partly by doing, with some actual experience, and I think that this applies to sex education as well.

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