Smooth Operator/Public sex-ed policy
Due to the need for young boys to be left relatively free of harassment by young girls, public and official policy on sex education now seeks to educate girls on the need for respecting boys and giving them their space, not pestering them into giving her babies if he doesn't want to, while keeping the girls as sexually ignorant as is feasible until age 16 when it is judged the girls should have the ability to exercise greater levels of self-control. There are, however, many cultural stand-outs and variations in how this policy is generally handled and how successful society really is in keeping this information from young girls.
Official policy for girls' sex-ed
Although official policy is for the school systems and official government bodies not to teach girls about sexual intercourse in particular until age 16, there are several realities of children and their development that makes it impossible to keep them fully ignorant on the subject. Children will still learn from each other or from their parents at home, although it is largely discouraged. Therefore, while the school system will not instruct girls on how the delivery of sperm to the uterus and how that delivery is carried out is the mechanism for making babies, there is still a rather rigorous sex-ed program focused on giving boys their personal space and not harassing them for babies.
- In pre-school, kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade, young girls will be taught repeatedly not to remove their clothes around boys unless the boy is comfortable about it and removes his clothing first or he is the one to remove her clothing.
- Although many girls are aware that boys have to do something to give girls babies, nothing about pestering boys for babies will be mentioned unless one of the girls in the class brings it up first.
- If a student brings it up, then the teacher will caution the class sternly not to pester boys for babies because it is the boys' choice whether or not to give a girl babies and if he says 'no' then she must respect that.
- There is a special girls' section of the school for girls experiencing heat where they can be kept away from the boys. This is for the protection of the boys and girls alike. In addition to keeping the boys from being harassed, it also prevents the girls from getting pregnant during a period where their rationality is impaired by their hormones.
- Some larger schools also have a special section for female rodents and lagomorphs who are in a constant state of heat, and thus are able to gain a greater degree of control over themselves in that state. Unlike the girls section, boys are only discouraged from entering the female rodent and lagomorph section rather than being outright banned as there is some level of security that the girls are less likely to mob the boys and the boys who enter this section are more likely to be looking for sex. However, consent by both parties is still important and all male-female interactions will be observed closely in this section.
- Rodent and lagomorph girls are something of an exception to many rules, and learn about sex on a time-table that is closer to how it was before the bottle-neck in the population.
- Some larger schools also have a special section for female rodents and lagomorphs who are in a constant state of heat, and thus are able to gain a greater degree of control over themselves in that state. Unlike the girls section, boys are only discouraged from entering the female rodent and lagomorph section rather than being outright banned as there is some level of security that the girls are less likely to mob the boys and the boys who enter this section are more likely to be looking for sex. However, consent by both parties is still important and all male-female interactions will be observed closely in this section.
- Girls experiencing heat while in the girls' section are taught that this is a part of growing up and their bodies are releasing a scent that bothers boys and that's why they have to be kept away. They will let the girls talk among themselves on the subject of the specifics behind this scent and the changes happening to them, but it is fairly widely known by most girls that heat means their body is ready to have a baby.
- Girls mentioning things that include sexually accurate information about what's happening will result in the teacher being allowed to make a pointed lecture discouraging pestering boys for sex.
- Sex-ed, including copulation and fertilization, is taught in the Junior year of highschool, at which point the girls will be considered responsible enough to behave themselves sexually around boys. The majority will be aware of the basics by this point anyway, but this will formalize the lessons, add in the academically accurate information on the subject, and tie it all together with the lessons they've received all their life about not bothering boys for sex.
Boys' sex-ed
For boys, it is considered appropriate for them to start learning about sex as soon as they develop an interest in the subject, and tend to be taught sex-ed at home well before they actually reach puberty. It is considered abusive for a boy to be capable of producing semen but not know about sexual intercourse, as being aware of it is regarded as the means by which they can protect themselves against being taken advantage of by women and girls.
As boys of various different species reach puberty and seminarche at a variety of different ages, there is no formal classroom lesson for boys to learn sex-ed, but freshman boys in highschool are usually integrated into the junior girls' class when they learn their section on sex-ed in order to make sure he gets all the information. Other than this, it is typical for boys to learn a great deal about sex by various other means at home.
- It is socially encouraged for pre-pubescent boys to be mentored by older boys in the age 15-18 age range, and learn about sex by this method.
- If an older boy mentor is not available, the next most favorable socially acceptable method is for an adult male, preferably the boy's father, to teach him.
- If no older males are available, it is acceptable for the boy's mother to teach him, but it is strongly discouraged for her to provide hands-on experience as part of the instruction, and even more heavily discouraged for her or a pubescent female family member to be the boy's sex partner during this learning period. This is regarded as abusive.
Social reality of children and sex-ed
Despite all public and official policy, the reality of the situation is that children talk to each other, and most wind up finding out about sex by talking among themselves.
It is very common and considered socially acceptable for a girl to learn about sex by a boy having sex with her. Most of society tries to discourage girls from pestering boys for sex or taking sexual advantage of boys, but when it happens the other way around it is actually encouraged. Girls who have just reached puberty are considered acceptable partners for boys who have just reached puberty, regardless of species-based age differences. Boys under the age of 15 can have sex with girls of any age so long as both the boy and the girl are pubescent.
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