Young, Dumb and Full of you know what.

A few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a good friend of mine. Our conversation ended up on the issue of sex education or lack there of when it comes to the younger generations. It seems like this young group of people are falling pray to some of the oldest tricks in the book. What are we not teaching our girls and boys that they fall into traps that are so blatantly apparent.

We live in an age of sexual freedom, there is so much information out there. There are certain sexual activities that aren't taboo anymore. So how is it that so many teens and young adults are so ignorant of important sexual issues. True more kids are being taught about the anatomy of the genders. Many kids are being taught what a penis is for and what a vagina is for but that's where the knowledge seems to end. These children, teens and young adults aren't getting taught the psychological or mental aspect of sex.

I know I am gonna get some people mad at me when I say this but Parents, Grandparents, Guardians, Foster Parents, Step Parents,..I wanna make sure I get everybody...Need to stop looking at teens and young adults through rose colored glasses. Adults need to understand that kids are having sex. I'm not that old but I am getting up there. I knew classmates as young as 12 were having sex. There seems to be this push to teach abstainance but only abstainance. I think we also need to focus more on protection. We can teach our kids about abstainance but we also need to teach them about protection. That means how to use a condom, what birth control pills are, and other various contraceptives. Teaching a teenager about condoms isn't gonna make them go out and have sex. If a teenager has determined in his or her mind that they are gonna have sex whether you teach them only about abstainance or not, they are gonna have sex. So why not make sure that they know how to protect themselves from STD's, HIV, AIDS, and unwanted pregnancies. We need to teach out teens and young adults about contraceptives, take the stigma or embarrasment about going and getting contraceptives like condoms. Why not teach them what psychological changes occur after sex. I did some volunteer work a few years back where I worked with a clinic giving free HIV tests on a college campus. I was truely amazed at so many people were more afraid of getting tested then having sex with someone they hardly knew. I had one student say that he knew the person he was having sex with wasn't HIV positive because "she was pretty". I had students tell me they were afaid of needles however they weren't afraid to have sex with someone they knew nothing about without a condom. How many of those that are infected with HIV, said that in the past. That is a scary thought to me.

Why aren't boys being taught how to resist certain sexual temptations. Why not make sure that our boys are ahead of the game. So whatever trick that somone tries to pull on them, they have the knowledge to get away from it. The same for our girls. There are teen fathers out there right now with children, child support payments and baby momma drama that they aren't prepared for. There are teen mothers with children, child support issues and baby daddy drama they aren't prepared for.

Women bemoan the tragedies of bad relationships. Why aren't these women teaching their sons and their daughters of what to be aware of and what to be cautious of when persuing relationships. It's like we are sending out these kids to the world blind. True we can't protect our kids, nieces, nefews, younger siblings and neighbors kids from everything but we shouldn't be sending out in the world totally blind. There are too many sexual predators; male and female waiting to hurt our kids. So Why would we send them out there unaware of the potential dangers. Sexual predators don't have to be adults there are young adults and teens out there with sociopathic tendencies and other mental issues looking for someone with low self esteem or who is nieve.

I could go on for ever and a day about all the dangers out there. There should be more initiative on teaching more than just the birds and the bees but also the bites and the stings.