12 TOTALLY WRONG “Facts” from Sex Ed
We often lament the state of American sex ed for its fear mongering and inaccurate science, but at least we never heard some of these bonkers things BuzzFeed readers learned in their sex education classes. We get it – you don’t want teens getting STDs or pregnant. But straight up LYING? Nah… that ain’t right. Which one of these is the craziest to you?
“I went to a Christian academy and they said if you were intimate before marriage, God would strike you down with a disease.”
“My sex ed teacher (a woman) told us that if we were to fool around in a hot tub, we could get pregnant. This was only fooling around, no insertion necessary.”
“I was taught that the moment you were married, you could no longer get an STD or have an unwanted pregnancy. I guess the logic was that God had blessed the relationship so nothing bad could happen anymore? I don’t think chlamydia really cares if you’re married or not but whatever.”
“We were shown a slide show of ‘deformities’ that ‘illegitimate babies’ could be born with as a deterrent to premarital sex. We were also told gay sex was illegal, and PMS was ‘largely psychosomatic’ and just an excuse for women to get out of their marital duties. We were told this by a woman.”
“I went to Catholic school and we had a textbook that showed a pyramid of ‘intimate acts,’ starting with smiles/flirting and ending with sexual intercourse at the bottom. There was a large red line at the ‘holding hands’ tier, labeling it the ‘Danger Zone’ because holding hands with someone always leads to sex, obviously.”
“We were taught that there are holes in condoms and the ‘holes’ were bigger than sperm and the AIDS virus. Therefore, the only way to not get pregnant or get AIDS was to not have sex.”
“I clearly remember being told in middle school that grinding could lead to ejaculation, and the tiny sperm could go through his jeans and then through my jeans, and THAT could lead to pregnancy!”
“Our sex ed teacher was ancient, knew nothing, and couldn’t spell to save his life. He called the clitoris the ‘cloitus,’ and got mad when we tried to correct him. He wrote it on the board that way, pronounced it that way, and when we were given a test on the reproductive parts, we got points taken off if we hadn’t spelled it that way.”
“They invited some lady to come and talk about abstinence. She took a rose and pulled the petals off to demonstrate how much less you have to offer your future spouse if you give some to a bunch of people beforehand.”
“I had a teacher that told us sitting on a toilet seat after a man was on it or wearing a man’s boxer shorts could get you pregnant. This was at a public school.”
“That you were meant to ‘break’ your hymen when you lost your virginity, and that blood and lots of pain was normal… Newsflash: It isn’t.”
“My ninth-grade health teacher told us you could get pregnant swimming in the pool with a guy. She said the sperm would come and find you.”