Reflection Paper About Sex

What I learned:

The biggest thing I learned from this book was how uncomfortable we as americans are with sex and anything involving sex. We think that if preach abstinence and try to scare people out of having sex then it won’t happen, or if we ban all sexual content then the world will be a better place and there will be less rapes, less domestic abuse, and people will stop having sex before marriage. As much we try to separate religion from state when it comes to sex religion comes into play big time. Religion is the main reason why we see premarital sex as wrong. Its the reason why we view it as a bad thing and it’s why we shame people for doing something that is complete normal and okay to do. Like Klein said in the book “It’s a public

Another thing I learned from this book was how we spend so much time preaching abstinence that we forget to each about how to stay safe if people do decide to have sex. We believe that the only way to stay safe is to be abstinent, and by doing that it blinds us to the reality that sex is going to happen no matter how hard you preach it. It would be more effective and more realistic if we educated, talked openly, and asked questions about sex. How else are we going to learn and stay safe if we don’t educate each other about sex? We blame so many things for why people have sex and why bad things happen, the internet being one of the most common things people like to blame. If it weren’t for the porn on the internet then we probably wouldn’t be as advance as we are today. Some of the main reasons for the internet was to make porn more easily accessible and more private. Because of this people were able to talk on chat rooms about sex and people were able to Email each other and flirt in private. Now a days people use the internet to do non-sexual activities like play games, shopping, research, and numerous other things, this all because of things that were

These programs build up these expectations for parents that are completely unrealistic and not to mention unfair to kids. It’s unfair to kids because they can’t openly ask their parents questions because they are trained to think that sex is wrong and they shouldn’t be curious about it. I find this valuable because it makes me realize that my parents never had any sex talks with me or answered any of my questions, they just said “you shouldn’t be doing that”, “you 're too young to be worrying about that”. They thought that after that there job was done and they were parents of the year, they assumed that I had been taught the importance of being abstinence so I didn’t need to know anything else about sex. That section of the book made me realize how important it is for parents to be open about talking about sex where there kids and as painful as it is for parents to think about, they should never assume their kids aren’t sexually active. Parents should have “the talk” with their kids regardless of