So the Confirmation class is going to see a movie about sex

[hedgehog]

called " Sex Still has a Price" featuring someone who specializes in problem pregnancies. I think the kids would learn and absorb more if they saw "Chasing Amy". It is a very hard film to watch, but it really exposes the costs of promiscuity.

[AngryOldDem]

1. Stupid question here -- but....

...could you maybe get permission to show it?

I'm assuming "Sex Has A Price" is either a scolding lecture film or a modern-day "Reefer Madness" that kids will laugh themselves out of the room at. I'd rather have them see something that can provoke thought and discussion.

(What is the bishops' classification of "Chasing Amy," anyway? O - for Morally Offensive? One of my favorite parts of the weekly diocesan newspaper is the movie review page.)

My point is that it's downright scary what kids know (and don't know) about sex. Anything that levels the playing field I see as a plus.

[CBHagman]

2. Looky what I found.

This could be a FUN time for everyone. :sarcasm:

My sympathies, hedgehog.

http://www.pamstenzel.com/pamsbio.asp

[AngryOldDem]

4. Whoo boy.

Hedgehog, good luck. Do yourself a favor and click on CB's link -- forewarned is forearmed, as they say.

[regnaD kciN]

6. A graduate of Liberty University...what more needs to be said?

Except, perhaps, the lunacy of Falwell U. granting degrees in "psychology." :eyes:

[Beer Snob-50]

3. My 11th grade class had its sex evening recently

it started with a short film in an English series that discussed chastity and then a promicious (sp)
girl who discussed why she did what she did and then how she has tried to change her life.

We then read biblical passage concerning respect of others. WE stayed away from thou shalt nots.

I got stuck with a group of male jocks and we took a much lighter approach to this topic. Got the point across but it was still lighter than others I could hear.

[CBHagman]

5. Do you know what's weird?

I remember that when I was in parochial school, we were given pamphlets on human sexuality and anatomy, and the material wasn't in the least preachy. It was mostly scientific, clinical, dry.

In addition to that, we were taken to the library or cafeteria or somewhere to see a Disney film (I can no longer remember the title) about puberty and all its attendant experiences.

And the teachers gave us a questionnaire at one point to see what we already knew, what attitudes we had, etc.

I'm talking the late '60s/early '70s here, with Felician Sisters and a few lay people teaching us.

As for "teaching abstinence," as Laura Bush likes to say, :eyes: well, we were already pretty clear on what our faith taught about sexuality, as well as what attitudes our parents had.

I still smile, though, when I recall the vague phrasing in my First Communion missal about sins -- "thoughts or actions dangerous to purity" was how they said it, I think. I remember asking the priest about that one when I was perhaps 10 or 11. I had no clue at all what that meant.

[Beer Snob-50]

7. how did george carlin put it?

it is a sin to want to feel up ellen, it is a sin to plan out a place to feel up ellen, it is a sin to take ellen to the place to feel her up, and it is a sin to feel her up. four sins in one feel!

[CBHagman]

8. "Thou shalt not wanna."

"In fact, 'wanna' was a sin all by itself." :rofl:

By the way, I sometimes think of George Carlin when I go to confession, particularly when the priest gives out three Hail Marys as penance -- a la Father Rivera of yore -- or works so fast "You can see the line move!"

[DemBones DemBones]

9. I have older friends who went to Catholic school

in the Forties and Fifties and got instruction about reproductive anatomy and physiology. I think even my 90 year-old friend had that sort of education and she graduated in 1935.

I got similar instruction in public school. I don't know what the big deal about sex education is. I could see parents objecting to teachers putting condoms on bananas in class, that sort of thing.

Would you believe that while I was on the faculty of a Southern Baptist college, they had an AIDS workshop in the chapel? And it involved condoms and bananas and singing "You are my condom, My lovely condom, You make me happy, When I screw." (No, I made the last line up, I don't remember how it ended. It was so lame and so weird.) I couldn't believe they did that in the chapel, even if it did look like an auditorium.)