Tuesday, April 03, 2007
There has never been a more blatant example of the lack of separation of church and state than the archaic sex education methods taught to our kids. The federal government spent over $168 billion on programs promoting an abstinence only approach to sex education and over $1.2 billion since the Clinton administration. These programs cannot mention birth control at all; not even condoms.
The abstinence-only morons lie to themselves and believe this approach to be working but the real truth is the single mother birth rates continue to climb, the teenage pregnancy rates continue to climb as does the rate of sexually transmitted diseases (STD). The only thing this myth is accomplishing is to bring our children closer to ruining their lives due to an STD or an unwanted pregnancy. If educators do not properly educate or start propagating myths like abstinence-only, then kids will continue to perpetuate problems within our society.
School is supposed to EDUCATE. It is impossible to educate about sex when you leave out important facts about safe sex and how to protect yourself from unwanted pregnancies. Again we see how the government, led by the right wing, continues to destroy freedom and choice. Actually Clinton is just a guilty here. He fired his Surgeon General for proving masturbation is a healthy thing and a good alternative to sex.
Have you ever seen one of the presentations by one of these abstinence-preaching morons? They equate sex to fire. So they burn paper to show how damaging sex can be to a relationship. Do these people have a clue at all? Then they equate abstinence with water which puts out the flame and saves us from burning. This is actually a federally funded program. LOL!!
Don’t get me wrong, I am a supporter of abstinence for teenagers but you also have to teach them about birth control too and how important it is to protect themselves from the multitude of STDs which can kill. As a father of a 15 year old boy, it is important he understands how to protect himself.
My son turned 15 this year. Of course, we are telling him it is best to wait until after graduation from high school before engaging in sexual relations, but if the urge strikes then protection is a requirement. We are going to keep a drawer full of condoms at home for his use. He won’t have to come to us for any, just go to the drawer. It will be my job to keep it full. He is well aware how easy sex can ruin his life because of the many STDs or an unwanted pregnancy.
I cannot imagine what those fundamentalists’ parents are thinking as they sound off about how you’ll burn in hell for doing some as natural as having sex. Then their daughter gets knocked up (or worse gets an STD) because she wasn’t taught about something as simple a condom. Perhaps I should start a business selling chastity belts to these idiots.
After more than two generations of failure and over $1.2 billion dollars wasted, you would think we would look at the statistics and start teaching the entire story. Start teaching kids about how condoms will save their life. Start teaching kids about how an unwanted pregnancy can ruin their life. Bring in single mothers and let them tell the class how difficult life has become and how their plans for college are now ruined. This is the reality the conservatives do not want our kids to see. They would prefer to quote the Bible more often or, even worse, blame the entertainment industry and then lobby to end all adult programming so all TV shows are scaled to only 5-year olds.
Morons!!!!
The abstinence-only morons lie to themselves and believe this approach to be working but the real truth is the single mother birth rates continue to climb, the teenage pregnancy rates continue to climb as does the rate of sexually transmitted diseases (STD). The only thing this myth is accomplishing is to bring our children closer to ruining their lives due to an STD or an unwanted pregnancy. If educators do not properly educate or start propagating myths like abstinence-only, then kids will continue to perpetuate problems within our society.
School is supposed to EDUCATE. It is impossible to educate about sex when you leave out important facts about safe sex and how to protect yourself from unwanted pregnancies. Again we see how the government, led by the right wing, continues to destroy freedom and choice. Actually Clinton is just a guilty here. He fired his Surgeon General for proving masturbation is a healthy thing and a good alternative to sex.
Have you ever seen one of the presentations by one of these abstinence-preaching morons? They equate sex to fire. So they burn paper to show how damaging sex can be to a relationship. Do these people have a clue at all? Then they equate abstinence with water which puts out the flame and saves us from burning. This is actually a federally funded program. LOL!!
Don’t get me wrong, I am a supporter of abstinence for teenagers but you also have to teach them about birth control too and how important it is to protect themselves from the multitude of STDs which can kill. As a father of a 15 year old boy, it is important he understands how to protect himself.
My son turned 15 this year. Of course, we are telling him it is best to wait until after graduation from high school before engaging in sexual relations, but if the urge strikes then protection is a requirement. We are going to keep a drawer full of condoms at home for his use. He won’t have to come to us for any, just go to the drawer. It will be my job to keep it full. He is well aware how easy sex can ruin his life because of the many STDs or an unwanted pregnancy.
I cannot imagine what those fundamentalists’ parents are thinking as they sound off about how you’ll burn in hell for doing some as natural as having sex. Then their daughter gets knocked up (or worse gets an STD) because she wasn’t taught about something as simple a condom. Perhaps I should start a business selling chastity belts to these idiots.
After more than two generations of failure and over $1.2 billion dollars wasted, you would think we would look at the statistics and start teaching the entire story. Start teaching kids about how condoms will save their life. Start teaching kids about how an unwanted pregnancy can ruin their life. Bring in single mothers and let them tell the class how difficult life has become and how their plans for college are now ruined. This is the reality the conservatives do not want our kids to see. They would prefer to quote the Bible more often or, even worse, blame the entertainment industry and then lobby to end all adult programming so all TV shows are scaled to only 5-year olds.
Morons!!!!
posted by DarthImmortal at 1:32 PM
2 Comments:
Great post! As a friend you've known for a long, long time (perhaps too long!), you remember that abstinence was my motto until my early thirties.
You know what I found out? Women do NOT think of a man "as a man" if they haven't had sex, they consider them a "boy". And they aren't interested in men without experience. And the only women that would be interested (the abstainers), weren't women I felt compatible with, or interested in.
I spent all my high school and college years alone because no one was interested in an inexperienced guy. I really missed out. And while I have gained experience over the years since then, my relationship abilities are lacking, because I didn't get the dating and intimacy practice that most people do during their "formative years".
There were PRIESTS getting more than me, back then!!! (But then, I was never into little altar boys.)
Instead of treating our kids as incompetent about something as natural and important as sex, we should be teaching abstinence and standard sex education side by side in school, as well as being open and honest about it at home, with our kids.
Give them all the information in a format as clearly and as non-judgementally as possible, and then let them make the decision themselves. Perhaps if we treat them as adults, they'll be more inclined to ACT like adults.
Leave the judgement to God, if there even is judgement at all (I don't think there is), for there have been few people in the history of mankind that would have been wise enough to sit in judgement of others, and they seemed to be the ones that most advocated compassion and understanding (before religions twisted their teachings to control the masses with dogma instead of Spirit).
Seriously, do people wonder why we still have rape, unintended pregnancy, and AIDS -- to say nothing of the high divorce rate -- when we teach kids bullshit like this? I mean, here's what kids hear: sex is dirty, sinful, and disgusting, and you should save it for the person you truly love.
Ha. No wonder we're so fucked up.
Andy brings up a great point, too, about the "macho" aspect surrounding men having to have sex before they might be ready. Guys are told they're not "real men" if they don't have sex (while girls are told they're evil sluts if they do). What a load -- and talk about setting men and women up for sexual incompatibility. Gee, you tell women "never ever have sex" while telling men "always have sex"... either you're going to have a LOT of gay men, or you've just made couples therapists filthy rich. When will we learn that the key to sexual and relationship health is personal responsibility -- along with the CHOICE and SELF-AWARENESS that has to accompany it??
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