is it just me or is it scary that women dont understand how they work?

Question

is it just me or is it scary that so many women and girls dont know how their own bodies work. do the schools not offer health anymore. how can you be a woman and not know how your period works. or when its due even. how pregnancy can and cant happen. and what birth control and condoms are and how to use them. ladies this is your body you should know how it works why certain things happen when certain things are due to happen. there is no excuse to not understand your own sexual health before ever having sex. it scares me to see soo many questions from women in most cases
can i get pregnant if i had sex on my period or while in a pool or hot tub. yes you can if the penis goes in you can get pregnant

or am i pregnant i had sex on saturday when can i test
or am i pregnant i had sex saturday started my period monday

this scares me that women dont know or understand how their own bodies work. the info is out there, if you dont know how pregnancy can occur keep your legs closed.

to lee i agree that most are teenage girls but again no excuse. i knew how my body worked from the time i was ten on. my mother and teachers in school and not just health and science teachers talked to us about it. its your body know how it works

i went to a school that was considered rough so we were and is still to this day down in the school in my area classes are single gender and both are taught the nitty gritty. in detail. i remember everything and so dies my hubby and he went to schools in another state and still got the nitty gritty, if we taught all the gross nitty gritty stuff like 10-15 years ago fewer kids would have sex

to rach- nope its very serious
its your body get informed

i grew up in the slums and ghetto of south carolina i know about poor schools my school district cut back on sports and offered health and sexual education classes

fannie it was directed at the special cases those are often very differently written

ok lets try this like this
would you go to a car dealeership and buy a car without the facts and details of the car. tghe cars history if you will and test driving no you wouldnt so lets now appply that to sex and sexual health, should ou have sex without all the facts and history including std tests no you shouldnt we women need to take charge of our bodies and learn. i am all for answering questions like what is the luteal phase of my period, how do i know hwen i am ovulating. but this i had sex yesterday will a test tell me if i am pregnant crap is insane

dana i did the same thing and taught my friends, i wanted all the knowledge i could find at near 30 i am still researching stuff,

Answer 1

Yeah I dont get it either, I was curious and at the library around ten as well looking things up. I became the fountain of information for all of my friends, they'd call or come by with the wierdest and funniest questions and I was their only source for answers...kind of scary huh?. But in this day it is just amazing to me that we still try to shield children and not burden them with to much information....in fear they might go out and get preg, std's or hiv? Oh and we wont give the girls Gardisal because thats giving them permission to have sex...I just dont get it?

Answer 2

I'm 19 and when we were in school, we didn't have any sex ed at all other than what we learnt in Biology in yr 7 and 9.

Schools need to bring back sex ed desperately to try to combat all of this teen pregnancy stuff they're always complaining about.

Rach is right. How are people supposed to know this stuff id some parents aren't willing, or don't feel comfortable enough to talk about it?

The answer - they ask questions elsewhere.

Isn't it better they come on here and ask questions rather than go through life not really knowing the truth and what could come of having unprotected sex or thinking that they might be dying because they have started their period?

Better to ask here than not to have any answers at all!

Answer 3

It's not just you. I too think it's scary. It's actually a very simple process. I haven't taken health class in 17 years, but I still remember the teacher making all the boys leave the class, and then making us girls watch the goofy videos about ovulation, fertilization, implantation, menstrooal (that's how the woman in the video pronounced it, anyway. lol) cycles, etc. Some of the questions (esp. in the pregnancy and parenting section) are downright ridiculous. "I'm cramping and spotting blood a little. My period just ended two days ago and me and my bf had sex 13 times in the last two days. CAN I BE PREGNANT???" I've gotten to the point where I don't even answer any of the pregnancy questions anymore.

Answer 4

It is scary. I did take a health course in high school but it was co ed and very politically correct. I remember my mother telling me she had to take a course in her freshman yr of high school (in the 70's), where the girls were taught explicitly how their bodies work, including sex, pregnancy, periods, etc. But now everything is so PC, you can't talk about sex, birth control etc. for fear you might encourage teenagers to have sex (as if!, like they need encouragement). I was pretty knowledgeable despite this lack of education, but some girls are not, and will just listen to their friends. Girls need to know the nitty gritty details about how their bodies work.

Answer 5

I agree that it is scary, but not every school offers a health or a Sex Ed class. In some areas, the school district simply can't afford it. This is why teenagers and young adults resort to this question board for answers. Most of them are probably to embarrassed to ask someone face to face, so they ask it here. And, yes they could be doing research on the Internet about it, but it's much easier to ask.

In addition, if they live in a poor area chances are their mothers don't know much about it either because they were not taught also. This was my scenario, I was fortunate to learn from my now mother in law, who I met when I was 17.

Regardless, it still is scary that they don't know about their bodies. This, I feel, is also the reason for high teen pregnancies.

Answer 6

Hi;)
I do agree, on a certain level. But what we learn in books and the way it works are two seperate things. I suffer from anovulation. Which means I get my cycle every 67 days and I can't get pregnant. All that is very clear. I have it for unexplained reason and it can ... change... at any time. So if one day I start having nausea and breast tenderness, you might catch me asking ;) cuz yeah, I know about the test, but if you're not expecting your periods, when will you know its time to test???
So this is my piece : I do agree that "normal" women should learn about their body. But there are case where it's just so confusing... I get some "special cases" wondering ;)

Answer 7

THats why they are on here asking questions. Here is a example im 21 never had sex there is a lot I don't know about my body or sex my mom never explained anything and for health we had a teacher that let us do what we wanted that was a free period and when she did teach it was all in clinical terms most of us didnt really understand. try to keep in mind how they feel

Answer 8

It's very, very scary. These people are the next generation, and this is what they think? Don't they have sex ed? Education needs to start at an early age.

Answer 9

Yep! I felt our schools did a good job of presenting the clinical info here, and you know, I think that parents really do need to talk to their children more about this type of stuff. And we need to get rid of the stigma of "if you are knowledgeable about your sexuality/sexual health you must be a slut." It's destrubing.

Answer 10

This is why it is important for sex education to begin EARLY and at home, by the parents.

So girls will be ready for the guys they encounter, and for the crap they learn at school.