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Vote Now: Sex Ed 101 and My Sex Ed Experience

By Amie Newman, Managing Editor

January 10, 2008 - 9:01am

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We offer today two more videos from our top ten Fresh Focus contest finalists!

RH Reality Check, in partnership with Isis, Inc. Advocates for Youth, SIECUS and the National Sexuality Resource Center, launched a sex-ed digital video contest for young people ages 15-30 years old and the response was overwhelming! Over 65 young people from around the country captured their thoughts, feelings and creativity on video about their sexuality education or the sex-ed they'd like to see in this country! Like this one:



Through these videos young people have told us they're desperate for adults to teach them not only what they need to know but how to communicate about these issues. But there is good news! These young people are taking matters into their own hands - using technology to tell their stories and they've definitely got our attention:



Do they have yours? Watch today's featured finalists (above) and then head over to DoGooder TV and vote for your favorites!

Some of the finalists will be present at the Sex::Tech Conference in San Francisco on January 22nd and 23rd and, with the help of the hosts of the mind-blowing Midwest Teen Sex Show, winners will be announced on January 22nd at the conference!

Let the show begin!


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Submitted by Anonymous on January 14, 2008 - 9:58pm.
SEX ED WAS NO EDUCATION AT ALL!

We were given little books telling us that we'd eventually grow breasts and have periods. What did they teach us about sex and guys? Absolutely nothing!
If it weren't for Dr. Ruth, romance novels and a slightly older friend I could've very easily ended up a single mom with three kids like my sister did.
We weren't taught anything about abstinence or venereal diseases or how to use condoms or even where to get condoms.
We weren't taught anything at all. And how many single moms do we have now? How many venereal diseases could've been prevented?
My parents didn't teach me anything about sex or guys either. When I hit puberty my mom got me a subscription to Seventeen Magazine and my sister got a subscription to something else.
So my mom & dad were just as bad. I guess the magazines were supposed to answer all our questions. They were raised in the 50's when those kinds of things weren't talked about.
I was raised during the 70's and those things were still not being talked about. I am completely disgusted and outraged by the lack of sex education all around.
Any parent out there who does not share information about this is just as guilty as the child, if the child has an unwanted pregnancy or ends up with a disease that they didn't even know they could catch.
One of my co-workers had gotten a veneral disease the first time she had sex. She said she was lucky that it was one of the ones that goes away because she didn't know anything about that anyway. She was raised by foster parents who also taught her nothing about these things.

Submitted by cymone anna simmons on January 17, 2008 - 3:07pm.