{"id":29553,"date":"2016-04-28T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=29553"},"modified":"2018-09-18T15:24:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T19:24:30","slug":"qotd-thats-why-they-call-it-sex-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/04\/28\/qotd-thats-why-they-call-it-sex-education\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: That&#8217;s why they call it &#8220;Sex Education&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I\u2019m on the road in Thailand, speaking at a U.N. conference on sustainable A development in the Third World. Earlier today I listened to a presentation on the effects of sex education for women. The presentation mentioned some cultural value conflicts about sex education, but it occurred to me that it didn\u2019t touch the biggest one. To wit: worldwide, the teachers want the kids to learn abstinence, but what the <em>kids<\/em> [want] to learn is technique.<\/p>\n<p>Eric S. Raymond, <a href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=69\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;That\u2019s Why They Call It &#8216;Sex Education'&#8221;, <em>Armed and Dangerous<\/em><\/a>, 2002-05-20.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m on the road in Thailand, speaking at a U.N. conference on sustainable A development in the Third World. Earlier today I listened to a presentation on the effects of sex education for women. The presentation mentioned some cultural value conflicts about sex education, but it occurred to me that it didn\u2019t touch the biggest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,66,57,41],"tags":[1235,255,504,657],"class_list":["post-29553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-health-science","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-esr","tag-sexuality","tag-teenagers","tag-thailand"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7GF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34598,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29553\/revisions\/34598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}