Overly sexual youth

We could always sexually educate the youth better. I feel that the "baby boomers", as they became parents, were in conflict. Their youth was drug and sex-filled, apparently, which was quite atypical from the preceding generations. Deep down, this boomer generation knew that it was not quite right, and not what they wanted their kids to do. Hence, society then gave fairly weak, mixed messages over such sex and recreational drug issues to adolescents. Added to that is the fortunate ease by which teenage girls and boys can access contraceptives, and the current strong education on STD transmission and prevention. The current government campaign to sexually abstain til marriage does not seem to be working. 

As one who follows postings here, I am shocked by the number of questions on sex from men and women of all ages. Most questions reflect an unbelievable ignorance of the subject.  

I firmly believe in sex education geared to the specific age of the young people. It is the lack of the education which should serve as a defensive shield combined with advertising, TV, movies, etc. that pushes young people to attempt to act as adults without the proper preparation for responsibilities. The goals should be to shield young people especially girls and allow them to enjoy their youth as long as possible. It is understandable that parents are shy to discuss sex with their children and therefore the schools using specially trained instructors should be assigned this important task.

I think that youth will find information about sex no matter what we teach. The only question is what type of information will it be. There are so many references to sex in movies, TV shows and the internet that there is no way to escape it.

I think the only thing we can do as a society is prepare are teenagers for the challenges that await them. That includes sex education as well.

I totally agree here are a couple ideas raised on this issue here before:

http://yedda.com/questions/Large_number_queries_regarding_sex_1862161776312/ 

No, the problems are not society related, they are pharmaceutical drugs and hormones in our foods.

Every woman that is on birth control pills, or hormones of any kind, must urinate regularly.  This hormone-laden effluent goes into the reclaimed water and ends up in our rivers, lakes and streams and right back into our drinking water.  Present day filtration systems cannot filter out all the pharmaceuticals and hormones, so you have little boys growing breasts and little girls wanting sex when they are 12 years old.

All the meat we eat (except certified organic) are laden with hormones.  There are growth hormones, lactation hormones, sexually activating hormones, take your pick.  Our entire family eats these beef,chicken,fish,pork,etc. and the hormones are then stored in OUR fat.

I attribute the obesity of children AND adults to the growth and fattening hormones fed to our meat animals.  Even our milk cows now have an added hormone to make them produce more milk.  That cow has no choice but to have her bag dragging the ground because of greedy milk producers.  These hormones go into the milk and into the bodies of little girls, boys and women.

You can educate the young people from now until forever, but a hormonal urge to mate is much stronger than anything a parent can say.

Early sexual development is caused by artificial hormones in our food and milk.

Kids are gonna develop one way or another, no matter what their told, think back.

there is an irony in sex education....telling kids "where babies come from" is one thing, but dealing with proclivities (that which turns on the biggest sex organ of all: the brain), is quite another......and is it freally something they need to be informed about? except that it's nothing to be worried about, unless the procliviies are encroaching upon the unacceptable (criminal) realm.

we do not turn into sexual beings at the moment the clock strikes midnight on the day we turn 18 (or, in some states 19)....we are born sexual beings, that is a bio/psycho/anthropological fact.

funny thing, a while ago (actually, quite a while ago) i searched wikipedia for entries in the "nude modeling" area and via a number of entries, i ended up in the pornography aisle, where i had free access to a free porn site: youporn.com........i believe that link has since been removed, but for a while any kid could have accessed the most explicit porn through wikipedia.

sexual pleasure, sexual expression are natural phenomena of the human being, there is somehow a code of "acceptable" sexual expression in our society and we as parents need to guide our children to appreciate the right balance, and to accept that some behaviours are not only unacceptable, but open to societal condemnation (criminal) as well.