Lurking on google. Found this pic and it made me think of you :)
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Thank you, my lovely peony. I love that you are thinking of me as you surf…and I love bacon with my breakfast entrees.
Here’s another lovely PSA from the 1950s to conclude your evening. While it’s not as entertaining as the Ralph warning, it is definitely more cheerful. The penis illustrations are so vague and adorable.
Jessica Valenti’s co-author in crime for Yes Means Yes, Jaclyn Friedman, has written a new sex education book for the younger set entitled What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl’s Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety. It’s got quizzes and fun exercises and received a glowing review from Salon’s Tracey Clark-Flory. I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy and see this feisty feminist’s stance on educating young women. I’m sure it’s much more informative than “What’s Happening to Me?”. For some reason, that book did not make me feel good about puberty.
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Doesn’t GOP presidential candidate sound confident when he says “Abstinence works.”? I wish I knew what year this interview occured. The reporter says Texas ranked third in teen pregnancies at the time of the interview. According to the Guttmacher Institute, Texas ranked #4 nationwide for pregnancy among women ages 15 to 19, and #1 among the actual birthrate (live births per 1000 women ages 15 to 19) in 2005.
Yes, Mr. Perry. Your own “personal life” of abstinence is proof that it works, and “is the best form to teach our children.” We shouldn’t tell “ya’ll to go have sex and whatever is going on and we’ll worry with that and here’s the ways to have safe sex.” (He really has quite the way with words.) Let’s blame abstinence’s failure on the way it’s being taught and applied (because educators are always to blame). You’re right, comprehensive sex education is just as costly and ineffective as steroid testing for children.
Yeah, I really don’t understand the basis or validity of his argument either.
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In response to the previous ask regarding sex ed, my sex ed class wasn't even learning about sex. The teachers kept stressing abstinence and showing gruesome pics of people with STD's as some sort of scare tactic. It's good to be aware of the possible consequences with sex, but really? They never even taught us about condoms or birth control or safe sex in general. It's no wonder so many people are having unprotected sex. Sometimes I just want to punch the people who run the US education system in regards to sex ed.
Do you live in the South too? Yes, scare tactics don’t work. Showing pictures of decaying lungs and airing those ridiculous Truth ads on tv doesn’t stop some smokers from quitting. Let’s face it, young people sometimes think they are invisible. They do careless things like binge drink, text while driving, and have unprotected sex all without thinking of the consequences.
School educators need to realize that one day these kids will be having sex (unless they choose to remain virgins forever), and when they do, they need to be prepared. Simply telling them to abstain isn’t good enough. They need to know about the right contraceptives in case they want to delay pregnancy. They need to know about STD testing and how easy and accessible it is. Otherwise their carelessness will simply be a product of our country’s shitty sex education, and we’ll have no one to blame but ourselves.
Female, straight. So I'm doing a research paper on how sex education should DEFINITELY be a required course in high school to graduate, and we need to interview somebody who knows their stuff. Could you answer these 5 questions for me? :)
What are the risks of sex these days that some children may not know about? Could sex education help with normal people skills in the long-run, such as saying "no", and what other skills could be taught? Is it shocking to hear what some uneducated teenagers/adults think and believe about their sexual knowledge? Why do you believe it should be a required course before graduation? Were you as well on your knowledge when you were high school age, and when did you start learning?
thank you so much!
- HPV — it’s extremely common (about 20 million people have had it at one point in their lives in the US). It usually presents no symptoms, but if left undetected, can lead genital warts, cervical cancer, penile cancer, and head and neck cancer. (CDC 1,2) There is no test for men, and the only way it can be detected for women is through a sample taken during a pap exam.
- I’d consider condom and safe-sex negotiation a “normal people skill,” but that’s just me. I can see education as giving people a sense of self-confidence and empowerment towards their bodies.
- Yes, most definitely. Some they’re overly concerned they’re pregnant from dry humping with their clothes on or extremely irresponsible with their lack of condom and contraceptive usage.
- Well, there’s no doubt once kids graduate and leave their parents’ nest, they start to engage in more reckless activities — college or not. They’re young and 18 and invisible! I’m all for having fun and being a little reckless, but only if you’re responsible while doing it.
- Yes, I was. I have a hippie mom who’s pretty honest when it comes to sex-related issues. She always made sure I knew what my teachers weren’t allowed to teach in health class. It all started with the 1992 Nick News AIDS special with Magic Johnson and Linda Ellerbee. That was the first time I’d seen a condom, and Linda demonstrated how to put on one using a banana.
And you’re welcome.
Gov. Rick Perry’s ‘Texanity’ explained »
Occasionally, we Texans have a responsibility to explain our “Texanity” to befuddled out-of-staters.
By Jim Hightower
Ha! I’m going to start using the phrase “Texanity” to describe all the dumb laws Rick Perry wishes he could enforce. Yes, he’s still working on forcing women to listen to a heartbeat and see a sonogram before undergoing an abortion. Never mind the $27 billion state debt and threatened costs at education. We’ve got unborn fetuses to worry about!
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Sex Survey Catches Wind Of Hot New Virginity Trend »
A long, girthy survey about the sex lives of Americans has revealed that more a quarter of people in their teens and early 20’s have not had sexual contact with anyone. Could this be the death knell of hilarious coming of age movies wherein a group of nerds attempts to get laid?
By Morning Gloria
I’ve said before that there’s nothing wrong with being a virgin. While this article makes some interesting points, I think the author is a bit overall pessimistic. I don’t think a recent spike in virginity is simply to do abstinence-scaring or college kids living at home. I like to think a good majority of it is due to people being responsible. They realize the responsibility that accompanies being sexually active and know it’s something they aren’t ready to take up yet. Most likely they’ve come to this realization because they’ve had comprehensive sex education that doesn’t enforce abstinence too. Maybe this stems from the eternal optimist in me, but I always feel as a society, we tend to give people less credit than they deserve.
Texas youth to school districts: Let's talk about sex »
Texas teens and young adults descended on the Texas Capitol on Tuesday with an unusual message for public schools: Let’s talk about sex.
By Corrie MacLaggan
If this bill passes, I’ll be proud of its author and my city representative, Joaquin Castro. It also means I’ll have a better chance getting a job whenever I’m done with this thing called grad school. Come one, legislators. Do the right thing.
Frank sex education programs work »
The Northeast has excelled in lowering teen birth rates because states here have taken measures to create some of the best sex education curriculums in the country and school-based health centers in urban settings allow staff to directly interact and advise young people.
In some parts of the South and West, where religious and social norms make candid discussion about sex taboo, the teenage birth rates are significantly higher.
Obviously I have lots of work to do in my state, but at least there are good models to follow in other areas of the country.
Want to see a scary movie? Check out the trailer for Daddy, I Do.
Trick or Treat? Oregon Couple Handed Out Condoms to Mixed Reviews »
Kathleen told her local paper, the Statesman Journal, that she’s been handing out condoms to teenage revelers on Halloween since the early 1990s, at the height of the national AIDS epidemic. Kathleen’s husband, Daniel, meanwhile, is a doctor at Silverton Hospital; he says he delivered 140 local babies between 2005 and 2007 (though he does not deliver babies currently), about 10% of them to teenage mothers.
The couple also handed out chocolate bars and toothbrushes, but not everyone was impressed with their mom-and-pop public-health initiative…
Tooth brushes, condoms, and chocolate? That sounds like the perfect goodie bag to me.
"Today’s sex education is no more about the sexuality that kids are trying to cope with than creationism is about biology. The agenda is about keeping Jacob’s hands out of Emily’s pants and keeping Olivia’s hands away from Ethan’s zipper. To say it is not fear based is to bury one’s head in abstinence-only sand. Even among liberals, sexually-transmitted infections get way more traction than pleasure."
Paul Joannides, “A New Perspective on Sex Education”
The smart Dutch take on teen sex »
Despite parents’ allowing romantic sleepovers, the Netherlands has one of the lowest youth pregnancy rates
…”In 2007, births to American teens (ages fifteen to nineteen) were eight times as high as in the Netherlands,” reports Schalet, and the Netherlands generally whoops on the states in terms of STD rates, too.
The half-Dutchie in me is so proud of my people. And this study is also one of the reasons why I love being a sociology graduate student.
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