Sex Ed
a short story by Wolf Larsen
It was the first day of our sex ed class in high school in some typical American city.
Many of us were hoping we were about to learn what we had been doing wrong all these years. Some – who had become pregnant along the way – were no longer with us. The principal had kicked them out of high school for getting pregnant. In fact, back in junior high some of the females had gotten kicked out for getting pregnant.
We all sat there quietly and very already to learn! The teacher had our attention 110%! Perhaps for the first time ever the teacher had the undivided attention of every student in class.
Our minds were full of questions. What were we going to learn today? Perhaps finally we were going to learn something useful in school for once! You could feel the air in that classroom so thick with curiosity, with that hunger to learn!
We watched the teacher's every move. We watched as she picked up a piece of chalk and begin writing on the blackboard in big white letters: ABSTINENCE
Our hearts sank. From that very moment you could feel the attention of the students drift away... Suddenly you could hear the voices of the students gossiping away. Others began looking out the window and got lost in there daydreams. I took out a book I'd gotten from the public library and began reading.
I don't think anybody was paying attention to the teacher as she began, "Abstinence is the best way to..."
Copyright 2012 by Wolf Larsen. Advance permission is given to anyone wishing to publish, distribute, and/or read out loud to an audience this work to do so as long as no alterations are made to the work, and credit is given to the author.
