A Bit Closer to Home
This is funnier if you know that I've spent the past several weeks trying to reconcile what the Institute of Catholic Educators want high school students to learn about sexual health with what the public health educators want to teach, unaided by a deliberately vague and useless curriculum.
Via sabotabby: Kansas Classrooms
See, the logic goes that if we say "Safer Sex," and tell teens that condoms work quite well as protection against sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy, when they're used correctly, and teach teens how to use them, then teens will want to run out and have OMG teh SECKS!!! With each other!!! And they'll wind up hating themselves, at least the girls will, because they've squandered their precious virginity!
If we say anything that even smells like "If you are considering becoming sexually active, you should also consider how to protect yourself from unplanned pregnancy and from infection," this presumes that teens are going to fuck like adolescent rabbits on v1agra, and they'll oblige us by running out, finding the biggest damn' condoms they can and fucking like adolescent rabbits on v1agra.
We must instead remind them that condoms have many failure modes, and tell them really, they should just wait (we shouldn't say until when, though).
Also, they should make responsible sexual decisions because any choices students make now may affect their abilities to have babies when they want to. I'm not making this up.
Feh.
According to my author, who was active with SADD in the late 80s, the administrators used the same logic to quash responsible drinking campaigns. When SADD wanted to include reminders about not driving under the influence on prom tickets at her school, the administration wouldn't let them, on the grounds that reminding people not to drive drunk would encourage students to drink.
Which many of them were, anyway.
Just as many teens have sex, anyway.
O.k. I'll stop ranting.
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Via sabotabby: Kansas Classrooms
See, the logic goes that if we say "Safer Sex," and tell teens that condoms work quite well as protection against sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy, when they're used correctly, and teach teens how to use them, then teens will want to run out and have OMG teh SECKS!!! With each other!!! And they'll wind up hating themselves, at least the girls will, because they've squandered their precious virginity!
If we say anything that even smells like "If you are considering becoming sexually active, you should also consider how to protect yourself from unplanned pregnancy and from infection," this presumes that teens are going to fuck like adolescent rabbits on v1agra, and they'll oblige us by running out, finding the biggest damn' condoms they can and fucking like adolescent rabbits on v1agra.
We must instead remind them that condoms have many failure modes, and tell them really, they should just wait (we shouldn't say until when, though).
Also, they should make responsible sexual decisions because any choices students make now may affect their abilities to have babies when they want to. I'm not making this up.
Feh.
According to my author, who was active with SADD in the late 80s, the administrators used the same logic to quash responsible drinking campaigns. When SADD wanted to include reminders about not driving under the influence on prom tickets at her school, the administration wouldn't let them, on the grounds that reminding people not to drive drunk would encourage students to drink.
Which many of them were, anyway.
Just as many teens have sex, anyway.
O.k. I'll stop ranting.
Source