Morford: SF Gate : Sex And The Disgruntled Teen

[Why Syzygy]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2005/02/25/notes022505.DTL&nl=fix

Sex And The Disgruntled Teen
More proof that *not* having sex is sad and dangerous -- even in Texas. What is wrong with us?
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Or, rather, more specifically, those silly little abstinence programs wrought by the neocon Right and jammed uncomfortably into America's increasingly crumbling and confused public schools and all of which aim to force-feed teens bogus evidence that sex is deadly and icky and fraught and poisonous and should be avoided completely if not somehow surgically eradicated, and if you really must indulge in things prurient and sticky then please go home and whip out your Bible and be sure to avoid your dad's Hustler or the shower massager you little demonic heathen slut. Such programs are bogus and false and misleading and harmful and stupid and wrong. In a nutshell.

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The msnbc article:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6894568
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The study showed about 23 percent of ninth-grade girls, typically 13 to 14 years old, had sex before receiving abstinence education. After taking the course, 29 percent of the girls in the same group said they had had sex.

Boys in the tenth grade, about 14 to 15 years old, showed a more marked increase, from 24 percent to 39 percent, after receiving abstinence education.

Abstinence-only programs, which have sprouted up in schools across the nation, cannot offer information about birth control and must promote the social and health benefits of abstaining from sex.

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Who gets the contracts to teach this nonsense? Bushcon and Associates. DUH! There is not a nook nor cranny from which they do not find a way to profit and destroy.