Jenbea's sex question

[jenbe_me]

No: HPFGUIDX 31472

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Rowena Grunnion-Ffitch 
<rowena_grunnion_ffitch at y...> wrote:
> --- joytest999 <joym999 at a...> wrote:
> 
> > There has to be a fair amount of sexual activity at
> > Hogwarts, 
> > especially among the older students.  I'd like to
> > think that the 
> > wizarding world is more accepting about these
> > things, and has magical 
> > sex ed classes where they teach the students
> > anti-contraception 
> > spells.
> 
> Call me old fashioned and puritanical but somehow I
> can't see encouraging sexual activity in teenagers as
> a good thing. Snape's activities during the Yule Ball,
> (ie: blasting necking students out of the rosebushes)
> suggests that staff tends to agree with me here. 


  Oh, no doubt the staff doesn't approve of it, but like someone 
pointed out previously, the staff rarely makes its way into the 
common rooms of the students. And yes, I agree with you that sexual 
activity in teenagers is not a good thing; but I'm with the side that 
believes that basically, somehow or other, when you've got boys and 
girls together at a boarding school, it's *going* to happen 
sometimes, so you'd better be prepared for the worst, and arming them 
with the proper information is the best defense. You can teach 
abstinence, abstinence, abstinence, but then when you end up with a 
pregnancy, or STD, what good will that do?

   Hm.. maybe a new class should be started... Defense Against the 
Sexual Arts? 

jenbea