Comments | greenie_breizh: What's the health of your child in the face of archaic religious beliefs?

greenie_breizh

What's the health of your child in the face of archaic religious beliefs?

May 01, 2008 22:30

So, despite every single professional body in the field having concluded that abstinence-only education does not prevent unwanted, out-of-wedlock pregnancies, the United States of America is still proud to have morons like this gentleman ( Read more... )

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terra_placidus May 2 2008, 09:03:09 UTC

It seems rather elitist to me that a politician who MAYBE was elected (you never know in the states, it seems, *ahem*Bush*ahem* ) would feel that he can apply his narrow set of religious/'moral' principles across an entire nation's sexual education program (or lack thereof ( ... )

greenie_breizh May 2 2008, 17:37:12 UTC

First: LOL for your icon.

And I don't really expect sex ed to talk about pleasure - I mean, it would be great if it did, but we're not quite there yet, y'know?

Sex ed is totally one of the most obviously heterosexist instances at school, because it's obsessed with reproduction (and again, one of the reasons is well, because we don't really want to think of sex as pleasure - and what else do gay people have sex for?!). Which I guess is why the clitoris is left aside but like you said, the consequences of that go wayyy beyond reproduction and into 'who do we prioritize in the act of sex'. Argharghargh. Still, WAY better than insisting that kids won't have sex before marriage, the little angels. -_-

...before you get silly? Talking clitorises anyone? :p

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greenie_breizh May 2 2008, 17:44:37 UTC

I've never seen that clip, no. And parents are necessarily inexperienced if it's their second kid and they do have valid first-hand experience which researchers don't. I think it's important just because the counterpoint of dissing "elitist" researchers is dismissing personal experience and neither is a good solution. But parents do have is a very biased version of reality and that's why social sciences are necessary ( ... )

lounalune May 5 2008, 15:27:41 UTC

Strange, both of you thinking you discovering that sex was supposed to be fun through fiction. I don't remember ever not believing that sex was supposed to be fun (and I didn't watch much tv as a kid). Just like I don't remember ever believing that babies were flown in by any kind of long legged animals. I guess it was never a taboo subject in my family ( ... )