It's okay to be Takei! but it's not okay to get syphilis!
So, I was reading something earlier and it actualy caused me to pause and...consider what I thought about the matter, and the *why* of it. The matter in question being sexual education in schools. Also the banning of the discussion of homosexuality in schools, during sexual education classes or...at all.
A lot of people who are against sex ed in schools bring up the trope that schools should teach math, and history and english, not waste time and instrude on a parent's rights by teaching a 13 year old boy or girl how to properly use a condom, and how to avoid STDs. This is a perfectly logical view...if you live in a world full of sunshine and rainbows where things always happen in lovely houses in sububia where everybody attends church of a sunday and your mother is named June Cleaver. I live in an area where the level of sheer ignorence about disease and sexuality is so pervasive that even grown adults believe blatant, mornic urban legands as fact.
I'm 27 years old, and I personally know men and women in their twenties, and thirties that believe things like this;
1. You can't get pregnant if you do it on your period.
2. You can't get pregnant if pee right after you have sex.
3. There's no such thing as AIDs in WVA. Seriously, they swear up and down no one has AIDs in the state that I live in.
4. You can get rid of herpes if you douche with bleach or vinegar or comet or any of a dozen other stupid things I've heard mentioned.
5. You can't get pregnant if he pulls out.
6. All gay men end up with AIDs.
7. Gay men are all pedophiles that cannot be trusted around little boys.
8. Condoms don't work anyway, so why use them?
9. You only get pregnant if you have sex on your back.
10. You can only get pregnant if your partner makes you achieve orgasm.
11. None of the people I spoke to, knew what Syphilis was or what the symptoms were, several people accused me of making the disease up. This explains why this particular STD is on the rise.
This ...this horrible hash of ideas and badly formulated urban legend has come from the mouths of ordinary, averagely intellegent men and women. The reason we need sexual education, detailed, useful sexual education that teaches more than abstinence and " Family Values " is because not everyone is June Cleaver. And if you think that the schools shouldn't tell kids this stuff, that it's a parents place... think about this, YOU may be comfortable telling your children about sex. You may be happy to give them the necessary tools and information they need to be healthy, and safe in their adult sex life, but what about the parents that are too drunk or too high to give a rat's ass if their son or daughter is safe, or smart about their sex lives.
This? is how teenage pregnancy and poverty runs in families. By the time that these young people realize that the things they've picked up from rumor, or one another or any other idiotic source they've found are total bullshit....they're pregnant, or they have an incurable STD and they don't understand HOW it could have happened to them, or why.
Now, let that ferment in your mind a little, those horrible...stupid ideas that each of those people believed, that I wrote down right up there. Now, if you honestly believe that the only person who should inform a child about sex, or sexuality is a parent, think on this.
Each of the peple, that said those stupid, retarded things up there? Is a parent. Every. Single. One. Several have teenagers. THIS is who will be informing them of the " Facts of Life. "
Now. Do you *really* want these people giving *anyone* sexual education?
A lot of people who are against sex ed in schools bring up the trope that schools should teach math, and history and english, not waste time and instrude on a parent's rights by teaching a 13 year old boy or girl how to properly use a condom, and how to avoid STDs. This is a perfectly logical view...if you live in a world full of sunshine and rainbows where things always happen in lovely houses in sububia where everybody attends church of a sunday and your mother is named June Cleaver. I live in an area where the level of sheer ignorence about disease and sexuality is so pervasive that even grown adults believe blatant, mornic urban legands as fact.
I'm 27 years old, and I personally know men and women in their twenties, and thirties that believe things like this;
1. You can't get pregnant if you do it on your period.
2. You can't get pregnant if pee right after you have sex.
3. There's no such thing as AIDs in WVA. Seriously, they swear up and down no one has AIDs in the state that I live in.
4. You can get rid of herpes if you douche with bleach or vinegar or comet or any of a dozen other stupid things I've heard mentioned.
5. You can't get pregnant if he pulls out.
6. All gay men end up with AIDs.
7. Gay men are all pedophiles that cannot be trusted around little boys.
8. Condoms don't work anyway, so why use them?
9. You only get pregnant if you have sex on your back.
10. You can only get pregnant if your partner makes you achieve orgasm.
11. None of the people I spoke to, knew what Syphilis was or what the symptoms were, several people accused me of making the disease up. This explains why this particular STD is on the rise.
This ...this horrible hash of ideas and badly formulated urban legend has come from the mouths of ordinary, averagely intellegent men and women. The reason we need sexual education, detailed, useful sexual education that teaches more than abstinence and " Family Values " is because not everyone is June Cleaver. And if you think that the schools shouldn't tell kids this stuff, that it's a parents place... think about this, YOU may be comfortable telling your children about sex. You may be happy to give them the necessary tools and information they need to be healthy, and safe in their adult sex life, but what about the parents that are too drunk or too high to give a rat's ass if their son or daughter is safe, or smart about their sex lives.
This? is how teenage pregnancy and poverty runs in families. By the time that these young people realize that the things they've picked up from rumor, or one another or any other idiotic source they've found are total bullshit....they're pregnant, or they have an incurable STD and they don't understand HOW it could have happened to them, or why.
Now, let that ferment in your mind a little, those horrible...stupid ideas that each of those people believed, that I wrote down right up there. Now, if you honestly believe that the only person who should inform a child about sex, or sexuality is a parent, think on this.
Each of the peple, that said those stupid, retarded things up there? Is a parent. Every. Single. One. Several have teenagers. THIS is who will be informing them of the " Facts of Life. "
Now. Do you *really* want these people giving *anyone* sexual education?