lol, the Catholic part may have been relevant - in the Protestant southern US there was antagonism to sex ed of any kind, and in the 12 years of public schooling the only sex ed was three visits from a Christian organization that showed shocking gore pics of infected gentials and then basically argued abstinence until marriage is the only alternative to dying from STDs. Then they had some young, recently married 20 year old come out and talk about how great sex is now that they’re married and how it was worth the wait … they did this when we were 14 years old, as well as later in high school.
Consent was never mentioned, let alone condoms or anything else.
Oh hon. In the 80’s/90’s (and probably today, IDK, I was raised catholic, but atheist as hell so I haven’t been near anything since 1996) Catholics were very much not about the safe sex / sex ed. And it was irish catholicism too. That’s why I was so fucking shocked by the paucity of US sex ed.
Jesus christ, we had a whole seminar on safe sex at age 12. In a catholic primary school.
(Ok yeah granted this was during the AIDS crisis but still)
lol, the Catholic part may have been relevant - in the Protestant southern US there was antagonism to sex ed of any kind, and in the 12 years of public schooling the only sex ed was three visits from a Christian organization that showed shocking gore pics of infected gentials and then basically argued abstinence until marriage is the only alternative to dying from STDs. Then they had some young, recently married 20 year old come out and talk about how great sex is now that they’re married and how it was worth the wait … they did this when we were 14 years old, as well as later in high school.
Consent was never mentioned, let alone condoms or anything else.
Oh hon. In the 80’s/90’s (and probably today, IDK, I was raised catholic, but atheist as hell so I haven’t been near anything since 1996) Catholics were very much not about the safe sex / sex ed. And it was irish catholicism too. That’s why I was so fucking shocked by the paucity of US sex ed.
that makes sense, I just wonder how to explain what happened then? Maybe consent education felt separate from sex ed to them?