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[rachaeldoss]

I really want to make some sort of post about my thoughts on the political race, but I just am too overwhelmed to get all my ducks in a row to make it as fair and balanced as possible, and I really do like to be fair and balanced.  Because I like to think that individuals who run for the office of the presidency are doing so because they feel like

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[grosely_clerx]

I had a conservative mother, a liberal father, and abstinence-based sex ed in high school.

I learned from my mother that sex before marriage is immoral, that it ruins relationships, and that would get me bechilded or disease-ridden. I learned from my father that I'd better get a woman with a head on her shoulders, if only because you need something to talk about after the sex (advice I still hold dear). I learned in sex ed how to check for testicular cancer, that condoms are incredibly fallible, and that sex before marriage will probably fuck up your life by getting you pregnant or disease-ridden. I was given the distinct impression that waiting until marriage was some kind of shield against STDs, presumably because of some sort of point in the wedding in which God cleanses us, or because diseased people .

By watching porn, reading how-to articles on the web, and reading sex advice columns, I learned the basics of cunnilingus, how to enter a woman gently, the pros and cons of anal sex, how to delay ejaculation, why foreplay is a moral imperative, how to be appreciative and give signals when receiving pleasure, why her sexual needs are just as important, and some cautionary tales about not getting jerked around or being jerked around. I also learned how the peepee fits in the woowoo, which had always puzzled and confounded me until age 14, even after biology and sex ed.

The point of which is, an adolescent's rambling across X-rated web sites provided a far more healthy, progressive and informative sexual education than an abstinence-based sex ed class, church indoctrination, and two devoted parents. The fury with which people fight to shield their children from information about sex is fucking awful.

[rachaeldoss]

It's so funny that America was seen as this maverick, middle finger to the law kind of punk kid country when it started, and we're far more puritanical than well, just about all of Europe and a lot of other places on this big earth.

I don't get it. I mean, it's part of the human experience.

And I had no idea that girls had THREE holes until a friend of mine told me in like, 4th grade. Girls definitely need to know that they HAVE a vagina before 4th grade, even if you aren't explaining to them exactly what it's for...Also, I have found most people grew up thinking that men peed in a girl to make a baby.

Ha.