Sex Ed

I have had a few experiences where I am blown away by a patient's ignorance about her own body. I am always most amazed when girls are pregnant and they genuinely have very little idea how they ended up that way. Today I had a patient who was so perplexed by the fact that her urine did not in fact come from her vagina but from an entirely different orifice - the urethra. I gave a whole anatomy lesson to both her and her partner and imagine her surprise when she learned that the baby she was carrying was going to come right on out of that very same vagina. She just assumed that she would have a c-section because she wanted one and thought that was how babies were born. I mean seriously, how is it that we allow our children to become teenagers who do not even know how babies are born or the function of their vagina? No wonder this child ended up pregnant, she had no idea that sex caused babies. Really, this should be part of the basics of education. How can we expect girls to go to college or have jobs if they do not even know how to prevent pregnancy. How can we expect girls to contracept well when they have so little understanding of  their own bodies. Let's get back to the basics.