Harry
CibbuanoMommy My Butt Still Hurts
May 29th 2006 23:41
Ok, well rested and time to continue the rant…
There appears to be this naive ideal in certain parts of the globe that links sex education with heathen, underage sex. It’s almost as though the powers that be expect kids to be rushing off and screwing like bunnies in the lavatories at the mere flash of a condom in PD class. How do people even begin to justify these silly ideas? There is a very clear line between encouragement and education. Popular culture and mass media provides the encouragement component. Movie censorship doesn’t leave much to the imagination when it comes to a wild roll in the hay. Song lyrics and video clips are similarly risque. Need we look any further than Britney Spears’ “Baby One More Time.” Its not exactly practical to be censoring teenagers from popular culture. In fact, this is the demographic much sexually related pop culture is targeted towards. So what we’ve got is a situation where kids are getting the encouragement, but not the education. The facts speak for themselves. Taking the stats and figures recorded in a small county of Utah last year;
“almost 11% of the unmarried adolescent girls [aged 10 to 15] in Tooele County had a baby”
“27% of unmarried teenage girls ages 15 to 17 in Tooele County had baby.”
“Rates of some sexually transmitted disease (STD) have more than doubled in the Utah teen population (both sexes) in the past 10 years.” 1
Yet despite the fact that Tooele county has the third highest rate of teen pregnancy in Utah and the STD have doubled within a decade, the main philosophy of the health department is to continue to push abstinence. Its absolutely ridiculous. Even more crazy and irresponsible is the fact that no where on the Tooele County Health Department Teen Pregnancy website is there the slightest ounce of information relating to methods of birth control or STD prevention other than abstinence. The facts and figures paint a grim picture. Instead of practical information, visitors to the teen pregnancy site are greeted with colourful quizzes, pictures, love advice and abstinence wristbands. Its pathetic! Why is a government health department treating young adults like 4 year olds? The entire website is patronizing and totally out of touch with reality. The fact that the statistic indicate that a large portion of the teen population is engaging unprotected sex indicates that a policy of abstinence is pushing a square peg into a round hole... idiots.
1. Sourced from Tooele County Health Department
There appears to be this naive ideal in certain parts of the globe that links sex education with heathen, underage sex. It’s almost as though the powers that be expect kids to be rushing off and screwing like bunnies in the lavatories at the mere flash of a condom in PD class. How do people even begin to justify these silly ideas? There is a very clear line between encouragement and education. Popular culture and mass media provides the encouragement component. Movie censorship doesn’t leave much to the imagination when it comes to a wild roll in the hay. Song lyrics and video clips are similarly risque. Need we look any further than Britney Spears’ “Baby One More Time.” Its not exactly practical to be censoring teenagers from popular culture. In fact, this is the demographic much sexually related pop culture is targeted towards. So what we’ve got is a situation where kids are getting the encouragement, but not the education. The facts speak for themselves. Taking the stats and figures recorded in a small county of Utah last year;
“almost 11% of the unmarried adolescent girls [aged 10 to 15] in Tooele County had a baby”
“27% of unmarried teenage girls ages 15 to 17 in Tooele County had baby.”
“Rates of some sexually transmitted disease (STD) have more than doubled in the Utah teen population (both sexes) in the past 10 years.” 1
Yet despite the fact that Tooele county has the third highest rate of teen pregnancy in Utah and the STD have doubled within a decade, the main philosophy of the health department is to continue to push abstinence. Its absolutely ridiculous. Even more crazy and irresponsible is the fact that no where on the Tooele County Health Department Teen Pregnancy website is there the slightest ounce of information relating to methods of birth control or STD prevention other than abstinence. The facts and figures paint a grim picture. Instead of practical information, visitors to the teen pregnancy site are greeted with colourful quizzes, pictures, love advice and abstinence wristbands. Its pathetic! Why is a government health department treating young adults like 4 year olds? The entire website is patronizing and totally out of touch with reality. The fact that the statistic indicate that a large portion of the teen population is engaging unprotected sex indicates that a policy of abstinence is pushing a square peg into a round hole... idiots.
1. Sourced from Tooele County Health Department
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