Love the implication that sex ed would've been any better in the US. Hell it would be worse if it was one of those abstinence only courses I had to go through.
I didn't have sex ed. The teacher had the kids vote on what they wanted. Sex ed or kickball. They all had shocked Pikachu faces when 4 students (ranging from 13-15years old) ended up pregnant within a year.
We literally had no sex ed other than pointing at a model. Nothing about how to do it or do it safely. Nothing about how to recognize if you're being forced to and don't realize it. Just pure memorization of the inner parts that people forgot about instantly. We had to watch a baby be born in a video but that was literally it.
This was last year. By the best bio teacher in the school.
I've heard stories if having sex using a woman's urethra and not understanding things. Ive also heard stories about Mormons who don't know how sex works at all and not understanding how they weren't having children even after they were hokding hands and stuff.
Basically, this could be fake but I've heard much worse from more reliable sources.
Absolutely not. You and your partner could be completely faithful and still catch something. Your partner could have gotten something from their ex and not noticed before passing it on to you. Not all STDs are obvious.
That's like Dan Savage saying that he knows men can't get pregnant, but with God all things are possible so he will keep on trying to impregnate his husband.
This is dumb, but I actually don't blame the couple THAT much. It's probably a shitty sexual education coupled with the taboo of talking about it. I went to abstinence-only sex ed back in the day, and all we were told was "sex before marriage is evil," and basically nothing else. If it wasn't for my church's (yeah, seriously!) really good sex-ed classes, I would have been dumb as bricks.
The DARE officer at my school (anti-drug police officer supposed to scare you straight) was actually yelled at by my health teacher for saying "sharing needles can cause STIs, oh and also wear a condom." A teacher shouted "Abstinence only, no condoms!" at a bunch of ninth-graders. Moron. Although I guess the kids in that class wouldn't have had trouble getting pregnant.
As unbelievable as it sounds, I met a dude who believed you could get pregnant with anal. His reasoning "that's why in porno they always come in the face/skin".
Which Doctor, though? Hopefully 11. While not my favorite overall (10 forever), he'd probably be the best one at pointing out idiocy in a kind but hilarious way. Him or 13.