How pregnancy happens.

Oryx · 04-05-2005 5:32pm #1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZKuuUPjk1Q

bubonicus · 12-09-2007 11:22pm

:eek:

patrickc · 12-09-2007 11:24pm

http://www.youtube.com/v/8ZKuuUPjk1Q

easy to watch and informative especially for some of the younger curious posters about

the_syco · 13-09-2007 12:22am

Class, esp the sperm around the pool. Better than the 5 line leaflets given at the sex-ed day:rolleyes:

A racy brainrot · 13-09-2007 12:25am

i did actually learn something lol

Femelade · 13-09-2007 9:30am

that was pretty good!
I learned something, and i have a daughter!

patrickc · 13-09-2007 10:06am

Femmy wrote:

that was pretty good!
I learned something, and i have a daughter!

yeh me included...

MagicMarker · 13-09-2007 10:15am

Femmy wrote:

that was pretty good!
I learned something, and i have a daughter!

Oh the irony:D

humanji · 13-09-2007 10:32am

Femmy wrote:

that was pretty good!
I learned something, and i have a daughter!

Just from watching the video? Damn, that's one hell of a clip!

13-09-2007 1:45pm

patrickc2006 wrote:

easy to watch and informative especially for some of the younger curious posters about

Yup, I agree. Great video.

I'd also suggest adding How to Put on a Condom
http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-put-on-a-condom-2
as part of the Boards.ie Sexual Education Experience

tinkerbell · 13-09-2007 5:29pm

Femmy wrote:

that was pretty good!
I learned something, and i have a daughter!

ha ha that's brilliant!

Tiz a good video! Very informative, I think everyone can learn something from this lil video!

Faith · 14-09-2007 6:47pm

I learned something and I've taken several classes in Reproductive Biology

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TheDriver · 16-09-2007 4:42pm

Love the catheter joke!

azezil · 17-09-2007 2:06pm

That was far more informative than any of the stupid books my mother gave me, I actually learned stuff I didn't know! nice one

monkeyfudge · 17-09-2007 2:24pm

Bit sexist isn't it?

The male character is like something out of a washing up advert.

AlmightyCushion · 22-09-2007 9:49pm

monkeyfudge wrote:

Bit sexist isn't it?

The male character is like something out of a washing up advert.

He's a bit of a dick head as well.

leninbenjamin · 23-09-2007 2:15am

AlmightyCushion wrote:

He's a bit of a dick head as well.

oh for christ sake...

TAXI!

faceman · 23-09-2007 2:25am

monkeyfudge wrote:

Bit sexist isn't it?

The male character is like something out of a washing up advert.

i was about to say the same thing. Its takes 2 to tango.

The_Minister · 23-09-2007 6:24pm

Like most of the other posters, I actually learned something today.

Piste · 23-09-2007 10:53pm

Well I'm never having sex ever again!

Talliesin · 24-09-2007 9:59am

monkeyfudge wrote:

Bit sexist isn't it?

The male character is like something out of a washing up advert.

Surely the point is that they start with caricatured sit-com stereotypes so that the dialogue is one-dimensional and simple to get before imparting the information relative.

It wouldn't really help matters to spend 2 hours on character development so that we have a rich, complicated, well-drawn impression of the psychological complexity of the talking penis.

JC 2K3 · 25-09-2007 8:33pm

monkeyfudge wrote:

Bit sexist isn't it?

The male character is like something out of a washing up advert.

Was gonna post something similar myself.

faceman · 25-09-2007 9:34pm

Talliesin wrote:

Surely the point is that they start with caricatured sit-com stereotypes so that the dialogue is one-dimensional and simple to get before imparting the information relative.

It wouldn't really help matters to spend 2 hours on character development so that we have a rich, complicated, well-drawn impression of the psychological complexity of the talking penis.

then why not make the female the bimbo and the male the sensible one? Or shock horror heres a suggestion, dont make either of them dumb?

Talliesin · 25-09-2007 9:40pm

faceman wrote:

then why not make the female the bimbo

She is a bimbo - total cosmo reader.

faceman wrote:

Or shock horror heres a suggestion, dont make either of them dumb?

Because then it'd be like:
Character 1: So, how much do you know about mechanics of pregnancy?
Character 2: Everything, I'm smart too.
Character 1: Ah. G'night then.

Mint Sauce · 25-09-2007 11:14pm

very informative, but it could raise some debate to when actual preganacy starts, ie fertilisation or implantation

Nevyn · 25-09-2007 11:21pm

Medically and scientifically it starts at implantation.

Mint Sauce · 25-09-2007 11:24pm

although some pro life groups take the moral stance that the zygote formed at fertilisation is when life/pregnacy starts, the medical arguement that its implantation that is required to maintain it

Nevyn · 25-09-2007 11:28pm

This thread is about the facts not the moral stances.
If whant to start a thread about that, then do so in the humanities forum.

Zulu · 25-09-2007 11:40pm

...ah fantastic, yet another "the girl is smart and sarcastic/the guy is an over enthusiastic moron" info-drivel :rolleyes:

wanders off grumbling about wanting the last 3 mins of my life back

karen3212 · 25-09-2007 11:57pm

Great vid, I had no idea the egg chose the sperm,

faceman · 26-09-2007 8:01am

Thaedydal wrote:

This thread is about the facts not the moral stances.
If whant to start a thread about that, then do so in the humanities forum.

true, but its told unnecessary me by 2 fictional extremist stereotypes who's personality has a part to play in the story telling. Anyway theres not much to discuss on that piece that wasnt already said.

You could also argue that this thread belongs in the biology and medicine forum as its not a personal issue.

Nevyn · 26-09-2007 8:35am

There are other stickies which give information and if this educates and lessens the number of OMG am I pregger threads and pms then it it a good thing.

Zulu · 26-09-2007 9:37am

Thaedydal wrote:

There are other stickies which give information and if this educates and lessens the number of OMG am I pregger threads and pms then it it a good thing.

I'd be surprised if knowing about the existence of a seminal pool, or that if the egg chooses the sperm will prevent any "OMG am I pregger" threads. Granted though - if it prevents one it's worth it.

Perhaps a sticky on contraception...

faceman · 26-09-2007 10:54am

Dont get me wrong Thaedydal, I understand what you are trying to achieve and its good. Maybe this is something that can be expanded on. Maybe getting a bonafida doctor in that area to provide some down-to-earth blurb to stick in the thread?

Talliesin · 26-09-2007 12:03pm

irish-stew wrote:

although some pro life groups take the moral stance that the zygote formed at fertilisation is when life/pregnacy starts, the medical arguement that its implantation that is required to maintain it

The question of when life starts and when pregnancy starts are two different ones with different sets of implications. Pregnancy is the condition a woman is in when her body is reacting the implantation. Whether that counts as life or not is another matter.

faceman wrote:

true, but its told unnecessary me by 2 fictional extremist stereotypes who's personality has a part to play in the story telling.

If you can do a better job then there's nothing stopping you.

The fact is that it's engaging and also conveys a lot of information that people keep asking about or else demonstrating that they have the wrong end of the stick about.

shadow_2070 · 26-09-2007 12:43pm

... very informative ... I wonder if the Department of Education would consider it

faceman · 26-09-2007 2:11pm

Talliesin wrote:

If you can do a better job then there's nothing stopping you.

wrote:

The fact is that it's engaging and also conveys a lot of information that people keep asking about or else demonstrating that they have the wrong end of the stick about.

It can be engaging without the stereotyping sexism.

Look, no one is knocking its informative nature, what I, and some of my boardsies feel, is that the piece is sexist in its portrayal of men. Now while most of us here are of a mature age and can take the sexist piece with a pinch of salt, we're not really the target audience. The target audience i would imagine is the younger pubescent type. Why should young boys see themselves typified by a sexist sterotype? What message is that giving?

Latchy · 26-09-2007 4:03pm

Reminds me of the opening squence of some film like American pie or the girl next door .The penis guy is a right knobhead he he ..

Nevyn · 26-09-2007 4:32pm

Are you telling me that most young males do know all that information ?
As it stands the clip is grond breaking and informative.

If you want to talk about if it is sexit or sterotypical start a thread in humanites.

JC 2K3 · 26-09-2007 8:29pm

Ground breaking???

In any case, I don't recall seeing all that many threads in PI asking about the biological process of getting pregnant, and I don't see how detailed information like that is relevant to this forum. There's no information about contraception in that video and the only Personal Issues related content in it is vaguely dispelling a few myths such as not being able to get pregnant after first time sex.

A thread with a few bullet pointed facts about pregnancy and contraception would be a good idea rather than this sexist pop-biology video.

Also, you said it would reduce the amount of "OMG I'm Preggers" threads on here. How exactly will this help anyone who is already pregnant?

JabberJaws · 24-10-2007 5:44pm

So now, if you have kids...just play this for them when the time comes to explaining birds and bees....:-p HA!

Nevyn · 24-10-2007 5:48pm

No.

Sex eduction should not be about THAT talk but a series of converstaion between children and their parents about reproduction in the world around them and the differences between boys and girls and how they change into men and women and about where babies comes from and then about what sexual intercourse is.

http://www.crisispregnancy.ie/parentresource.html

Is a good place to start as it deals with the facts and how to talk to children about such things.

JabberJaws · 24-10-2007 5:52pm

I was kidding! My point was, you have to have a sense of humor a sometimes and not be so serious and timid... I find people listen more if you are more easy going.

LegacyUser · 23-11-2007 3:37pm

i learned something too

i didnt know the egg can pick the sperm

how cools that

Piste · 24-11-2007 1:31am

You'd think if the egg can pick the sperm it could tell the ones that carry faulty gene's or disease/syndrome carrying genes to fo.

Though I know sfa about biology so there could very well be a good reason for this

nastysimon · 12-12-2007 3:24am

It's quite informative, witty, slick, and well targeted.
It's also quite sexist. The constant putting down of the male character, along with the rather misleading "the egg then decides which sperm", which suggests some thought process (these are single haploid cells, not capable of thought, decision or even beating Jordan at a game of chess) suggests an element of empowerment to the female character. Ultimately, this is aimed at young women to whom this sexist slant is hardly likely to offend, and may even prove attractive by showing an empowered, intelligent and witty female character besting a dim and childish male one.
It's a good piece of work, but hardly suitable for teaching guys. The weak male character will just turn them off and make it far less effective. It would be analogous to having Alex Ferguson teach women about putting on a condom. That said, most guys of the age at which this is aimed wouldn't be too interested in the topic anyway, so it's not really all that important.

JC 2K3 · 12-12-2007 5:14pm

It's still a pretty stupid thing to be sticked at the top of PI.

Bottle_of_Smoke · 12-12-2007 8:03pm

nastysimon wrote: »

It would be analogous to having Alex Ferguson teach women about putting on a condom.

That would be the best thing ever. I'd wear a condom at all times if he did that!

That said, most guys of the age at which this is aimed wouldn't be too interested in the topic anyway, so it's not really all that important.

Eh don't think so, I would have been! I knew dick went in baby comes out but because our science teacher never covered it in junior cert it's only quite recently I learned the scientific detail.
Guys are terrified of babies at that age