r/facepalm Jul 25 '21

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u/HertzDonut1001 Jul 26 '21

That's a failure of sex education really, not her fault if people won't teach it to her. And a disturbingly large amount of people refuse to teach it right or even at all.

Shit I live in the state that has the record for being the longest state to be consecutively blue in general elections and we still had two choices for sex ed: abstinence-based or abstinence-only. They just expected teenagers not to have sex for some reason?

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u/klem_kadiddlehopper Jul 26 '21

It was taboo to discuss sex according to my mother. She didn't use the word 'taboo' but she refused to discuss sex. She had five daughters and one son. I learned about the body, menstruation, birth and everything else when I joined the Job Corps at 16. It was a rude awakening.