And if you thought the Abstinence Clearinghouse was bad…
Published by Lisa Kansas June 8th, 2008 in Contraception, Sex, Edumakashun…ParentsForTruth.org!
Their introductory video starts rollin’ as SOON AS YOU LOAD THE SITE on your browser, so brace yourself. To give them credit where credit is due, they do seem to have accurately assessed the majority of their targeted audience in terms of reading comprehension and mental processing speed. There is even a “Replay Intro” button to click in case you still couldn’t quite catch what they were saying the first time ’round.
My favorite bytes from the site:
Abstinence education realizes that “having sex” can potentially affect a lot more than the sex organs of teens
“Having sex?”
I’m also having a hard time blocking out an image of two people having sex through a cardboard cutout with only the, er, pertinent parts exposed and in contact.
Abstinence education empowers teens to avoid risk by making good health decisions, regardless of their sexual history.
Regardless of their sexual history? God, how magnanimous. Wonder if they promote inclusion of instructions on how to regenerate your spiritual hymen.
Current federal funding for abstinence education is nearly $170 million, but the results are a cost-savings to taxpayers! When teen birth rates are reduced, taxpayers save $6 for every $1 spent.
Oh, please share the math on that one!
From the, um, Success Stories section:
Natalie was able to review the 900+ page Teen PEP curricula and discovered though the school said the program “stresses abstinence” according to state law, it focused primarily on the “failure rate” of abstinence, suggesting students would eventually become sexually active
You mean most students don’t remain celibate their entire lives? Say it ain’t so.
Current federal funding for abstinence education is nearly $170 million, but the results are a cost-savings to taxpayers! When teen birth rates are reduced, taxpayers save $6 for every $1 spent.
Yeah, you be sure to let us all know when the abstinance-only magic kicks in and starts lowering those birth rates.
FAIL.
Suuuuuure abstinence works - and that’s why they say that one in four girls have an STD - cause that nasty old herpes virus just jumps right through your jeans and manages to magically work it’s way right through your panties. And if they really think abstinence only sex ed works - tell it to the parents of the five girls who graduated from my former high school this year while hugely, visibly knocked up. And the part I really love - the irony that one of those girls - her mother was the one who led the charge to have abstinence only sex ed taught at that high school. She actually thought that 16 or 17 years old was too young to tell kids about sex and we had to protect their virgin ears.
Never mind the fact that most everybody I know started having sex by the time they were 14 or 15. And the fact that the kids who take those abstinence pledges end up breaking them anyway. They decide that as long as they only practice oral sex or anal sex then they are still virgins. And the worst part is - they aren’t using any protection when they do it because they haven’t been taught about condoms -or - they’re taught lies and they’re told that condoms have a high failure right in protecting against HIV and unwanted pregnancy. The adults who come up with this crap are idiots of the first order.