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They may not know how to do long division or compute an angular velocity but, by damn, American kids are going to know how to fuck properly!

I am pleased my tax dollars are so well spent. "Female ejaculation" - sheez...




Given the choice between 'computing angular velocity' and Sex Ed, your tax dollars would give a life-long benefit to the vast majority of the population if applied to the latter - and the value of people understanding the former is minuscule in comparison.

And what is so ridiculous about Female ejaculation?


> the value of people understanding the former is minuscule in comparison.

Do you have any quantitative evidence whatsoever to support such a claim?


I don’t see how it’s possible for mdda or you to have quantitative evidence either way. I doubt that there are any surveys or studies that include questions on all of the following: whether people can compute angular velocity, whether they know how to have sex, whether their life is a success.

I’m guessing mdda arrived at eir conclusion that understanding sex is more important than understanding how to compute angular velocity by reasoning that far more people have sex (as evidenced by children) than get jobs necessitating angular velocity calculations.

I’m not sure how useful understanding the equations for angular velocity in daily life really is, because I don’t know those equations myself. I can say, though, that I feel like I intuitively understand angular velocity well enough and that knowing the equations wouldn’t help my life much. And I would guess (based on personal experience and observation) that people have sex more often than they have to deal with something spinning around quickly.


Putting the Sex Ed classes into a broad category of 'improving people's mental health' may give quantifiable estimates of benefit[1]. The monetary benefits of regular education (most directly measurable at the university level [2]) are an order of magnitude less valuable (on a happiness-per-dollar basis).

Normally, I'm not really a fan of the 'soft' subjects (compared to the hard sciences). But giving people at least a minimum level of knowledge about something as basic to life as sex (or understanding depression, for instance) should (IMHO) be a priority.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness_economics#cite_ref-13 [2] http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-money/2011/06/06/is-college...


I went to the school that the article talks about. It's a private school. It's not anybody's tax dollars. (And we did know how to do math.)


Yes. I was struck by the definition given to the school by the Urban Dictionary: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=FCS&defid...

BTW is that the past tense of the verb "know" as in "we _did_ know how to do math until we f*ed our brains out!"

Sorry, I'm just jealous because I have never met a girl who went to Friends Central School. Had I done so possibly she could have demonstrated the marvels of "female ejaculation". I'd keep my distance of course, just observing.


You and the poster you're replying to both seem to need to put female ejaculation in quotes, presumably to imply that it's some nonsense that either doesn't exist, or doesn't merit discussing. The fact that so many people reach adulthood without knowledge of even the existence of this basic biological function indicates to me the need for more education of this type. But you seem happy with your slut-shaming, so, carry on.


Like most people, I've always been fascinated by human sexuality. But unless you're over 50 years of age, I've read of and studied reports of "female ejaculation" since before you were born. There's never been any solid scientific basis for believing "female ejaculation" is anything other than involuntary urination.


This comment, in combination with the above comments about resentful virgins, does much to shed light on a rather unfortunate HN demographic.


I'm sure in an advanced society such as this we can afford teach our children about both angular velocity and female ejaculation.

Thinking about it, I reckon you could teach them both in the same class. That'd be one hell of a word problem...




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