So, according to some, teachers aren't supposed to be allowed to teach sex education with an approved, professionally developed curriculum? Well, ok. With today's level of internet tech, teens can just turn to YouTube.
Kicesie- "Virginity Part 2" 9:24
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x09G3xEgifs
The video is just Kicesie laying there in her flannel pajamas talking to the camera on her thoughts on virginity, having sex, some of the considerations on when might be a good time. It's the internet, and as Dan Savage sometimes says, the only qualification on giving advice is to give "a suggestion about what could or should be done" and have people who are willing to seek you out for advice. She doesn't claim to be a teacher or a doctor or anything. She's more like a big sister just talking about what's on her mind.
But the above video has about 1.8 million page views at the time of this post. What does this say? I think it says that we have some starvation-level hunger for sexual knowledge that isn't being met anywhere else, and this includes schools, which are SUPPOSED to be the sources of critical life knowledge for children and teens.
We could make sex ed entirely illegal. That will leave a gap of needed knowledge that teens will crave to fill. Youtube and other sites like it will be one way to try and fill the gap, although they aren't held to nearly the same academic standards that our public school systems are. Do we really want to outsource responsibility for critical life skills like understanding sex and contraception to Youtube? Making sex ed illegal or focusing on abstinence-only education will do exactly that. Either our teachers will teach teens about sex or Kicesie and her successors will. And either of those are preferable to NOBODY doing it and them just stumbling through unprepared.