When will educators take sex-ed for homo/bisexuals seriously?

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Gay pupils across the country are being subjected to homophobic bullying at the hands of their teachers, according to research published today. One in five gay teenagers said they had been bullied or discriminated against by a teacher or another adult at school on the basis of their sexuality, in what was described as a “sad but accurate” picture of the reality faced by young gay people growing up in Britain. The research also strongly suggested that poor sex education lessons are driving a rise in the number of young gay men contracting HIV, according to the head of the National Aids Trust charity, which produced the report. --- Three-quarters of those surveyed said they had not received any information, advice or support about same-sex relationships and attraction in sex and relationship lessons at school, while a third had not been educated about HIV transmission and safer sex. More than two-thirds had not been given information on testing for the virus.

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Unfortunately this is (or at least was) also a real problem when i went to school. The lessons on sex and reproduction often focused exclusively on "theory" behind sexual reproduction and there was a serious lack of lessons on the actual "practice" of sex and relationships (and anything relating to homo/bisexuality was more or less non-existent as well).



Serious questions about what is considered healthy, problematic, abusive and so forth weren't really discussed at all and were more or less just answered by certain "youth magazines" that aimed to inform teenagers about sex and such. In fact the most memorable part of "sexual education" was when we went on a field trip to the "youth clinic" where they had a discussion about such things, including that there's a real difference between how sex is portrayed in professional pornography and how it usually happens in real life. They might even have mentioned homosexuality and bisexuality for a brief moment but it was hardly memorable and noteworthy. If i recall correctly this was also the last real piece of "sexual reproduction" education that we got since we were more or less over the age and consent and thus "mature" enough that it was up to us to educate ourselves and contact, for example, a youth clinic for information and help.



So why don't educators and bureaucrats take sexual education, especially which takes into account same-sex intercourse and relationships into account, more seriously despite the obvious detrimental effect ignorance regarding sex and relationships can have in particular when it comes to reducing the spread and impact of sexually transmitted diseases?

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