Heh. Catholic school survivor here: I thought if I peed into a toilet and mixed it with a girl's pee, a baby would be made in the sewer.
I was taught HIV was from gay people putting things in the wrong places. I always got scared about having to shower my butt and junk because it meant I was touching one after the other and I could carelessly give myself AIDS. They never taught me if it was the dick touching the poo or the poo touching the dick that would kill me,.so I never knew which to clean first.
Partly bad info from the 80s and 90s. My uncle had HIV/AIDs in thr late 80s-90s. He wanted us all to get together for one last Thanksgiving before he died, but my dad said it was too risky for us kids. My uncle passed before Christmas in 93. My dad regrets it to this day.
What's insane is so many adults still believe AIDS is from being gay. I mean it takes a seconds to reason that any man is more likely to spread AIDS because, you know, they're shooting a bunch of bodily fluids into someone else. But no, the virus can sense the homosexuality.
Sure, and if it touches a turtle then you get Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. That's actually their origin story.
I really want this be a joke. Sadly I know how shitty catholics can be about sex Ed, so I'm sorry.
Ontarian here. The joke is that Catholic high schools here have daycares in them because their sex Ed is non-existent.
I'm going to go on a limb and guess that the Catholic school system in Ontario is run by mostly laypeople and a few secular priests instead of one of the orders renowned for their teaching ministry, like the Jesuits.
There are four separate school systems in Ontario not including private schools. English public, English Catholic, French public, and French catholic.
Can't imagine how much waste there is in a system with four departments doing the same thing.
There should be one school system with a French and English. No catholic influences at all.
It's so sad what parents and schools do to kids by withholding basic health info to keep them from being "promiscuous." I knew an older woman who told me when she got her first period that she didn't know what was happening and she was terrified. She didn't want to tell her parents, because they just didn't talk about body stuff, so she waded waist deep in a cold stream to try and stop the bleeding.
Fun fact, this is precisely why the first suicide hotline was implemented in the US.
A young girl killed herself because she got her first period and thought she had gotten an STD. She had no one to talk to and took her own life.
It’s story like this that make me viscerally angry at people who preach abstinence only sex education. You can’t just tell young people to ignore the changes happening to their bodies, it only leads to confusion, mistakes, and fear.
Actually, a small correction: the suicide hotline connected to the story is from the UK, not the USA.
It was actually one of the first crisis hotlines not just in the UK, but also in the world. It was founded in 1953 and the organization's name is the Samaritans. It was also founded by a priest!
You can look this info up on Wikipedia.
I’ve met that kind of priest. Good folks, they understand that their job is mostly just to help people and that the religious part is window dressing to that.
Well yeah, but part of the theoretical job is supposed to be doing good things for people
For a day in primary school I believed girls could get pregnant by touching them because DNA was transferred to touching skin
That was thanks to badly designed primary school sex-ed videos that they made us watch in primary school that avoided mentioning the adult things
When I was in school and we were doing sex ed one of the girls put up her hand and said, my sister does this. Which all the teachers look sort of awkward about. Later on I learnt that her sister was a prostitute and so, yeah, it was a relevant comment.
Sort of awkward though that are 13-year-old is aware of it
My first partner said oral sex could cause pregnancy. I JUST WANTED TO PUT THEM IN MY MOUTH BUT THEY WOULDN’T RELENT
hand stuff was fine though I guess
If the problems are the same with or without religion, then why bother with religion
Why indeed? Socially, the best solution is secularism. But I live in a secular country and you know what? We have the same problems. Assholes are assholes, religion is not an excuse nor a reason for their assholery.
Believe it or not, but some of the religious edge cases either don't have internet access, or don't let their kids use it. One of my kid's friends is insanely restricted in that regard, but that's a public school, so I don't doubt there's some roughly factual information that gets to them anyway.
A private school though? I can see a person being a full adult and not even suspecting they were lied to until they run across something.
Mummy Laid an Egg - Babette Cole
published 1994. literally all the information a kid needs.
I read it in Year R (the UK equivalent to Kindergarten)
Unfortunately, no one at her school handed out the official "Books PrettyFlyForAFatGuy Read as a Child" list so she could catch up.
I didn't say they did. I'm pointing out the assertion "Information was not as easily accessible in the 90s" is false.
It was, and it was in an easy to read and fun format for children.
The 90s wasn't a dark age.
Someone made an active choice not to educate this child properly. don't blame the 90s
Come on now, that info was widely available well before the 90's.
This is some troll level bullshit.
As a kid? In the 90s? No. It wasn't.
America Online didn't present easy access to porn unless you knew what you were doing. And even then, it's like you could reasonably see video on a webpage at 14.4kbps speeds. (0.0137 Mb/s or a little under 10 minutes per megabyte.)
The vet said my dog needed to lose weight, and now I've got a child, so there's your evidence.
I actually thought that too when I was little. That if you weren't pregnant you were on your period. Not by the time I got mine though.
Okay i get it, but how do you not know that your period ends, but know that if it does it could be because of pregnancy
Who the everloving fuck has a thought like this and goes onto Twitter to post it at 5:20 in the morning?
You're missing the point of the message, like many here.
She doesn't specify when this happened. Maybe when she was 13? So, still a kid in school.
And what a school: A fucking Catholic school who put bullshit in her head. Like "if you touch boys, you'll get pregnant!!!!!!"
That's what she is saying: That religious schools are bullshit.
She points out it was her first period, so yes, a child, a brainwashed-by-religious-idiots child.
To have school sex-ed in the 90s, she'd be about 40 today. Everyone is different, but her story would mean she hit menopause around 35-37.
And I can't completely tell from her picture, but I feel like that is not the picture of a 40 year old.
Woosh...
She meant continually, she wasn't talking about menopause, but the normal stoppage till next month.
I mean, she'd be mid-30s to mid-40s, and in her 30s when this was written (2018).
But how does that mean she had menopause in her by age 37???
Edit:
Did you misread "first period" as "period", and think she meant she thought that menopause was the dog impregnating her???
She meant thought that she constantly bled, not a few days a month. It's a double whammy for the Ontario school system: what to expect from a period, and how impregnation works.
Some people pursue a very healthy lifestyle and don't look how we expect. My wife looks a decade younger from living so healthy and active.
Other people copy stuff they find and pass it on.
