Sex Education and the Promiscuous culture in the US

I remember I didn't have any formal sex education in my life except a 'lesson' during my first week at Juniata College, and I was 19 at that time. I remember that I learned what is 'sexual harassments' , 'alcohol abuse' and 'rapes'.

But before that, I didn't know anything and my schools didn't teach me anything related to 'sex.' Maybe one reason is I skipped the last two years of my high school or maybe I went to three different elementary school. I didn't really know anything except reading about sex differences in the biology book.

Overall, I would say I didn't know anything about sex when I was in Hongkong. When I was 17, I moved to the US and I got a free condom from the college newspaper when I was going to college in Seattle. I was very curious and took a few. I didn't know about condoms have different favors because sex is a topic that people avoid talking about in their daily conversations in Hongkong (Maybe thats why we have the lowest birth rate). So, i opened those condom and read the instruction and realized how 'complicated' that it was. I had lots of questions all of a sudden, for example, what should i do with the top part, how to put it on correctly?... what if it breaks? should we use it for oral sex? I didn't know who to talk to about all these.

After living in the US for a while, many of my friends started to talk about 'sex' in our daily conversations and I was very surprised that they were very open to talk about all these topics and answer all the questions that I have. I also remember meeting a guy who is HIV positive and he told me he never use condom for oral sex and his partner is still HIV negative. I first thought kissing with someone who is positive would give me AIDS. but I found out I really didn't know anything.

I think our culture plays an important roles in sex education. In Hongkong, where a place has the lowest birth rate and the people is conservative about these issues, kids don't know much about sex. But meanwhile, less underage kids have sex and less people have active sex partners. It seems to me that the less we know, the better we might be?! But on the other hand, kids in Hongkong don't know anymore and they will not be able to handle the situations when they experience these issues.

Should me spend more money to educate our kids about sex in which might make them to have more sex? OR should we not to promote sex education (or a I remember I didn't have any formal sex education in my life except a 'lesson' during my first week at Juniata College, and I was 19 at that time. I remember that I learned what is 'sexual harassments' , 'alcohol abuse' and 'rapes'.

But before that, I didn't know anything and my schools didn't teach me anything related to 'sex.' Maybe one reason is I skipped the last two years of my high school or maybe I went to three different elementary school. I didn't really know anything except reading about sex differences in the biology book. 

Overall, I would say I didn't know anything about sex when I was in Hongkong. When I was 17, I moved to the US and I got a free condom from the college newspaper when I was going to college in Seattle. I was very curious and took a few. I didn't know about condoms have different favors because sex is a topic that people avoid talking about in their daily conversations in Hongkong (Maybe thats why we have the lowest birth rate). So, i opened those condom and read the instruction and realized how 'complicated' that it was. I had lots of questions all of a sudden, for example, what should i do with the top part, how to put it on correctly?... what if it breaks? should we use it for oral sex? I didn't know who to talk to about all these. 

After living in the US for a while, many of my friends started to talk about 'sex' in our daily conversations and I was very surprised that they were very open to talk about all these topics and answer all the questions that I have. I also remember meeting a guy who is HIV positive and he told me he never use condom for oral sex and his partner is still HIV negative. I first thought kissing with someone who is positive would give me AIDS. but I found out I really didn't know anything.

I think our culture plays an important roles in sex education. In Hongkong, where a place has the lowest birth rate and the people is conservative about these issues, kids don't know much about sex. But meanwhile, less underage kids have sex and less people have active sex partners. It seems to me that the less we know, the better we might be?! But on the other hand, kids in Hongkong don't know anymore and they will not be able to handle the situations when they experience these issues.

Should me spend more money to educate our kids about sex in which might make them to have more sex? OR should we not to promote sex education (or a promiscuous culture )?