Here is what should be the brunt of public sex education...

Human physiology.

How babies are made.

How diseases are transmitted and killed or protected against.

THAT'S IT!

No publicly funded detailed interactions of sex acts.  No publicly funded comdom give away.

If some kids get diseases after that and die...oh well?  Should have paid attention in school or your parents should have done a better job.

and besides...you were going to die anyway.

You think the best-case scenario is contracting a  venereal disease and the worst case scenario is a grand-child???  How about acquiring HIV and developing AIDS?   Where does that fit in your scale of scenarios?  And I'm not sure that I agree that race is irrelevant in this discussion, but it is not a problem historically in my view.  When nearly half of the new HIV victims in this country are Black women, I can't help but see a need to gear more education toward the Black community than has been previously.  

if you think it's racist, comment on the website, tald to your friends, ask people to go to the website and ask for that segment to be removed and why. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

African-american women and men are being infected with HIV at a much higher rate than the general US population, and aren't getting the information and easy, quick testing they need. Everyone should have an HIV test yearly (quick mouth swab or finger ***, results in minutes), and check out the information on Planned Parenthood on safer sex--simple stuff.

The schools should teach how babies are made and diseases are spread. But what about what goes on in student's lives the rest of the day after school? TV characters and shows, ads for Viagra, the Internet, masturbation, boy and girlfriends, some are sexually active, some are not?

Some of the people who design  sex ed courses must live in la la land if they think that physiology, diseases, and "don't do it", is of any use to teenagers today. Abstinence education has been shown to result in higher rates of sexually active students and teen pregnancy than a comprehensive sex educstion program. Answering questions and talking about having condoms ready if you even think one of your friends might be thinking of oral sex or intercourse sure beats having sex without one because you got carried away, and anyway, they fail a lot. No one wants to show ses acts in school. Just talk about things kids are worried about, and make life a little safer. Parents still need to teach what's right and wrong.

Don't be afraid to judge.  It is not "inconvenient" or "ill-timed", teen sex is wrong.  They need to know exactly where you stand. With as many bruthas preying on young girls, and as many girls looking forward to the status that a baby will give them, it would be sheer stupidity to treat it like a bad case of chickenpox.   Part of the reason Jack and Jill exists is to keep their upscale black daughters away from ghetto trash bruthas.  If you don't have high toned folks like Jack and Jill to segregate your daughters, it's just you an your wife.  Good luck!

I recognize the need for information to stop the spread of HIV, but I have one question. What does two men having oral sex have to do with planned PARENTHOOD??

Because sex and sexuality are hard-wired into us, children are going to learn about it either from responsible, caring adults or their peers, friends, uncaring people and the media.  On my blog, (blog.candelariasilva.com) a few months ago, I wrote an entry Real questions to Discuss about Sex and Relationships with Teens." I have heard from one instructor who actually talked with teens using these questions and a parent who discussed them with her daughter.  

Take a look and let me know what you think.

I created the list because I'm still grappiling with some of the questions.  In my reality as a woman (daughter, mother, grandmother) and having worked with teens in various ways, I know that we need to get real about sex (and so much else) with our children.  Information and discussion about feelings are crucial.

I think our approach to sex education is outdated. we HAVE TO TALK ABOUT IT EVERYWHERE. it won't be comfortable. It won't be easy and at times it will be downright embarrassing, but we are talking about people's lives.

Trust me, if we don't talk about it, the children will find somewhere else to learn about it

how about:

urging folks to join the PTA? how about a better rapport between parent and child, or parent, teacher, and child. ALL of us have to chip in. I don't expect the schools to teach my babies eveyrthing.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that teenagers KNOW about sex and how babies are made.  I mean, I knew as early as 10 that if a man stuck his penis into a woman's vagina, and he wasn't wearing a rubber, she could become pregnant.  And my mother, while she did talk to me about sex, about pregnancy, disease..also made it clear:  do not disgrace this family, ESP. my father, by getting pregnant.  I am young enough to come from a time where it was still SHAMEFUL to be a pregnant teen.  And so, while I was afraid of disease, and the whole concept of being pregnant while still a girl, the mere thought of standing in front  of my mom and dad with my belly all swollen made me CRINGE!  That was enough for me to keep my legs closed...at least until I was an adult, on my own, in my own home, making my own money, paying my own bills.  And because being a single mother was NOT part of my plan, I made sure I protected myself.

The element of shame and fear of disappointing one's parents has been replaced by acceptance of teen pregnancy...accepted often by mothers who were themselves, teen parents.

I think that the objection raised by LEARN is not so much that an African American in portrayed fellating a caucasian, it is that both parties are men. The race card is used in place of the "faggot" card. I doubt LEARN would have a problem if it were an interracial couple depicted. How about Asian and Hispanic? Would the NAACP be called then?

And to reinadelaz , Planned Parenthood is dedicated to the support of sexuality education and health. Just because the word "Parenthood" is in the name doesn't mean they only focus on heterosexual. Same as not everyone who works at McDonald's is Scottish.