The 8th Blog Awards Challenge “Teach me eroticism in school, please” produced thought-provoking and brilliant entries. The challenge in itself was very arousing as it involved ‘sex education in the curriculum’.
The four final entries tackled TBAC 8 with ease and with contradistinct twists. Here they are, the four finalists, expecting for your votes! Please read the voting rules before casting your vote.
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Teach Me Eroticism in School, Please by Hit-or-Miss
If you have visited my blog a couple of months back, I wrote a post entitled My Thoughts on Unplanned Pregnancies. In the post, I mentioned the alarming increase of such population and the decreasing of age levels involved. I included some possible factors and one of which was lack of knowledge.
That being said, it takes us to the topic of sex education. Sex education is a broad term used to describe education about human sexual anatomy, sexual reproduction, sexual intercourse, reproductive health, emotional relations, reproductive rights and responsibilities, contraception, and other aspects of human sexual behavior [1]. Basically, sex education’s purpose is to educate people regarding sex, protection and its pros and cons.
When I was still in high school, you can pretty much say that I was taking BS Sex Ed. For nearly four years, I was constantly exposed to information regarding sex and everything that comes with it. I do not know with other people, but I seemed to digest every bit of knowledge being taught. Sex was (or still is?) considered a taboo, but deep inside, I had no problems to be constantly reminded of its pros and cons. Read more >>>
Teaching SECKS by notsovictor
At age five, I began to revel at how my various titas would balloon after marriage and, after nine months, would expel their spawn from within enlarged bellies.
I of course asked the inevitable question: Where the do all these babies come from?
In a spectacular display of parenting skills reverse psychology and their knack for evading awkward situations, my parents turned the question on me, with a very clever “What do you think?”
Eyebrows furrowed, I explained my hypothesis with reluctance: “After people get married . . . when they kiss a lot . . . the woman’s stomach gets bigger and then babies come out of the belly button?”
My parents neither confirmed nor corrected my theory. For thirteen years. They now merely assume that, as a high school graduate, I paid proper attention to my Biology classes and now know the ins and outs of fornication. For all they know, however, to this very day, I might still believe that babies are the products of liberally-applied flavored lipstick and overactive tongues. Read more >>>
teaching old dogs new tricks by PROSETITUTE
Amidst issues on overpopulation, high numbers of teenage pregnancy, and poverty, the immediate passage of a bill that would mandate the inclusion of a reproductive health education in the curricula of grade 5 to 4th year high school has never been this tempting.
It is for this reason that Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman brings to fore the controversial Sexuality Education, causing the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) to stand firmer on its stance against the things they deem immoral.
TRACING THE ROOT
The conservative orientation of most Filipinos can be traced to the 300 years of Spanish colonial rule. During those times, they had spread their influence by introducing Christianity to the Filipinos.
The Spaniards may have succeeded but beliefs, like any other things, are subject to change. Though it takes time, traditional beliefs are challenged and later discarded.
A recent Social Weather Station (SWS) survey concluded that 4 out of 5 adult Filipinos favor Sex Education in public schools- a lucid vindication that, as 2008 nears its closure, Pinoys are fast-becoming decisive, and are now smarter. Read more >>>
Nang Mangalabit si Nene… by RADYO MONITORYO
Sex. Bilang isang alipin ng radyo, madalang kong marinig ang salitang ito sa mga balita. Rape, oo pero sex, madalang. Kahit ang mga balitang tunkol sa prostitusyon o sex dens o live show, kadalasang hindi ginagamit ang salitang ito sa pagbabalita. Mangilan-ngilan lamang ang programang may tapang na pag-usapan ang mga bagay tungkol dito. Isa na rito ang programang Love Chat ng DZRH. Dito, deretchan ang usapan pero may censorship. Dahil kasama sa mga panuntunan ng Kapisanan ng mga Broadkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP), ang mga salitang hindi na kaaya-aya sa pandinig ay pinapalitan ng mga teknikal o siyentipikong termino. Ayon nga sa kanilang tagline…
May mga tanong na hindi pwedeng itanong kung kani-kanino lang…
May mga tanong na hindi pwedeng pag-usapan ng ganun-ganun lang…
May mga tanong na hindi basta-bastang binibigyan lang ng payo…
Ngayon pwede na… pwede lahat… Read more >>>
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