## High School textbook featuring our "hobby".

Post by truly_trussed » Fri Nov 14, 2014 6:01 pm

If anybody from the San Francisco Bay Area wants to chime in, feel free talk about the school textbook controversy in the Fremont Unified School District. In August the school board pulled a textbook Your Health Today published by McGraw-Hill from the curriculum. This is the 9th grade U.S. level and the target age is 14 or 15.
Conservative parents complained because of the topics including bondage and sex toys and other issues. I'm sure right wing talk radio has gone ballistic. What say you? I'd especially love to hear from educators.http://ww2.hdnux.com/photos/31/41/00/66 ... 28x471.jpg
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Post by chadmc90 » Fri Nov 14, 2014 6:04 pm

It's kinda hard to read the text. Could you find a better image?
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Post by truly_trussed » Fri Nov 14, 2014 6:08 pm

Sorry Chad,I'm a rank amateur when it comes to posting. Maybe somebody a tad more skilled then me could enlarge it (Hint, Hint) I looked at several sites (mostly from the SF Bay area). I just thought that image would tell the story, but if somebody has more (not too explicit) feel free to post, the more the merrier.
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Post by chadmc90 » Fri Nov 14, 2014 6:13 pm

I don't think enlarging it will help. It needs to be less blurry, as this was likely already enlarged. So, to put it technical, a higher resolution image would be better.
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Post by truly_trussed » Fri Nov 14, 2014 6:20 pm

Thanks Chad, Let's see if anyone else could add to it or even comment if their familiar with the news story. I'm lucky I got that posted, I'm just a techno luddite.
PS- I got the magnifying glass out. That illustration was pop star and icon Lady Gaga. If I recall she did some bondage shoots for a Japanese magazine.

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Post by chadmc90 » Fri Nov 14, 2014 8:44 pm

Ah, ok.I read a few articles about it, and it seems the main concern by the parents is with the depitions of sexual acts. The bondage was also brought up and was apart of the sex section. It had diagrams of orgasms and talked about masturbation and kinks. I can understand where it drew attention. But I don't think I agree with sheltering kids from this kind of stuff. It should be duscussed in a professional setting rather than learned in other ways.
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Post by mikeybound » Fri Nov 14, 2014 10:33 pm

Agreed. No amount of exposure will actually make people like this stuff if they're not inclined to it. Education just teaches kids how to avoid death by bondage.

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Post by jsherwood » Sat Nov 15, 2014 2:39 am

> truly_trussed wrote:If anybody from the San Francisco Bay Area want to chime in, feel free talk about the school textbook controversy in the Fremont Unified School District. In August the school board pulled a textbook Your Health Today published by McGraw-Hill from the curriculum. This is the 9th grade U.S. level and the target age is 14 or 15.
> Conservative parents complained because of the topics including bondage and sex toys and other issues. I'm sure right wing talk radio has gone ballistic. What say you? I'd especially love to hear from educators.http://ww2.hdnux.com/photos/31/41/00/66 ... 28x471.jpg

Gee I wish I studied there....ok maybe only that textbook.

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Post by SeanDreamFriend » Sun Jun 07, 2015 5:39 pm

I mean I took a course this year and we had diagrams. I don't find what's wrong with it honestly it's not an actual picture and it's a drawing plus you have one of them and the other most people know what it looks like. So honestly parents who try to hide it in my opinion are idiotic. Also the fact that kinks is talked about in my course or was, it was covering to be SAFE mainly and not to do anything bad that could hurt you or embarrass you later in life. I just think some parents are idiotic if they don't want their kids to know what a vagina or penis look like from a drawing or learning about sex because it's safer if they know then if they don't.

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Post by AlexUSA » Mon Jun 08, 2015 5:03 pm

I guess I am of the school of "if you wanna know, Google it," but am I weird in that I have had ZERO sex ed from home schooling or my parents and still figured out how to have sex?
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Post by drawscore » Mon Jun 08, 2015 11:50 pm

14-15 might (and I stress MIGHT) be a bit young. 16-17, yeah, I can see that.
My own involvement in TUGS goes back to when I was 8, and I continued as a frequent and active participant until around 15-16, when I found other interests. But it's still a part of my life of which I have fond memories.
In those childhood experiences, there was never anything sexual about it (or at least, nothing OPENLY sexual about it). It was just a game, like any other game we played. And as I've said before, most of us never even liked being tied up. But we tolerated it, because we DID like tying up our friends, and even as we sat on our beds, with our hands and feet tied, we knew it would soon get to be our turn to do the tying, and THAT was fun.
Throw in dares and challenges, especially on rainy days, when we were stuck in the house (or a friend's house) with nothing else to do, and it was, to us, just a natural part of youth and adolescence.
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Post by Kelly » Tue Jun 09, 2015 11:38 pm

Just thinking back to high school, I don't think I would want anything like that to come up in class. It wouldn't be comfortable in that situation for me.

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Post by GwenAB » Wed Jun 10, 2015 3:52 pm

I kind of agree with Kelly, if I am sitting in class and we are discussing bondage in sex it just seems like it would be so weird, like if i even saw a guy looking at me or something when it was being talked about or even like right after class that would be almost creepy. and if my teacher was a man that just doesn't seem like it would be ok for him to talk about to us. Even if it was in a textbook.