Sexual Competency

Sadly your views are a bit outdated for today’s times. Rest assured it’s not all your fault, and while your views over what should be allowed in the media are skewed, there is also something wrong with today’s culture and media surrounding sex. I understand your hesitance to accept this bolder form of advertising and entertainment as normal, especially coming from an era where behavior as such was in fact considered taboo. Hopefully, I can point out your point of concerns as well as give you a few tips on how to embrace this new generation of media and culture surrounding sex. As well as build a relationship between you and your grandchildren to discuss the importance of having sexual competency. While also pointing out the flaws, that

Angry grandpa, you come from an era known as the generation of sexual restraint (Ramey, 2016). Basically in this era any type of sexual endeavors performed or pursued outside of marriage and for procreation reasons, were seen as “taboo”. Although sex wasn’t involved in the media as heavily as it is in today’s society, sex was still a contributing factor during this time. Teenagers were still becoming pregnant but it wasn’t a topic for discussion. Instead families would ignore the problem and parents of the teen parents would take the new child in as an addition to the family. The act of hiding anything remotely romantic was the basic goal of this era, so any sexual questions or concerns were not addressed thus leading to the lack of emotionality amongst couples and the increase of teen pregnancy. (Ramey, 2016) Coming from this era, it must feel like a slap in the face having to view people engage in activity that was once deemed a private matter, but don’t worry I have plans of helping you come to terms with this new

The concept of “sex sales” is used for sexual related situations and scenarios to promote a product or object for purchase. It would appear that sex is normal and a part of everyday conversations, when in fact its not. The act of using sex for sales is acceptable, but actually talking about sex and the implications of having inaccurate information is yet to become a norm in today’s society. Sexual education used to start the first year of high school with no defiant plan of action in regards to a lesson plan. Majority of the times, the information presented was inaccurate and the main lesson was abstinence only. (Ramey, 2016) Talking about sex and the importance of protection has left many younger people with little to no education over the act of having sex. According to a study performed by Kathrin F. Stanger-Hall and David W. Hall, over “Abstinence-Only Education and Teen Pregnancy Rates: Why We Need Comprehensive Sex Education in the U.S.” In 2005 the US had a teen pregnancy rate of 72%, which was the highest amongst other countries such as the Netherlands, France, and Germany. Also, 21 out of the 48 states in the US monitored promoted abstinence only programs for sexual education. Not only are the pregnancy rates high in the US from lack of a better sexual education system but the rates of STD’s/STI’s are high as well with a little over ten thousand teens