This is just horrible.

[illuminated_sin]

The latest tests by the CDC reveal the results of abstinence-only sex ed: One in four teen girls now has a sexually transmitted infection and that's not even counting gonorrhea, syphilis, or HIV

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[dragonmad]

I know. It was on our news the other night. :(((

[illuminated_sin]

Saying, "Just don't do it" isn't going to help protect them. Don't people get it? Why is it so hard for anyone to understand? I really am having trouble wrapping my brain around it.

[dragonmad]

I wish I could tell ya hun. I don't get it either. :(

[readgreekeasy]

Hey I'm absinent and STD free
go me!
but my parents were also inteligent enough to explain to me how to be safe in case I decided to do it anyway
gotta cover your bases right

[illuminated_sin]

Yes, my dear, but that's the current complaint: Abstinence only education says just "Don't do it" and doesn't explain anything about birth control or protection against disease, and keeps the kids ignorant, and that's why they're getting infected at such high rates. Your parents taught you, so you didn't get just the abstinence-only education.

[liriel1810]

Hear hear! Abstinence only just doesn't cut it.

[illuminated_sin]

Oh, if only *I* could teach all the kids sex ed. WHOA would we have some educated kids! :D

[liriel1810]

*giggle* I can just see their eyes going wide with astonishment.

[angiepen]

Yet another reason why abstinence-only programs are moronic. I mean, aside from the fact that saying "Just don't do it" hasn't ever worked, through all of recorded history. [eyeroll] A pack of idiots is controlling the national sex education policies and our kids are paying for it. Lovely.

Angie

[illuminated_sin]

Yeppers. And catching things that can't be fixed, too. Whee. :P

[luthien_af]

That bad? Damn :S.

[illuminated_sin]

Yeah, so sad, isn't it. ::sigh::