COMMENTS:
First off, let me just say that I"m surprised: I didn't even KNOW that there were absteninence classes in the U.S. Aside from that stupid "Silver Ring" Thing, this has to be the dumbest thing I've heard.
I mean, $176 million annually is a lot. They could spend the money on better things. Like teaching about proper safety.
by aya on Fri Apr 13, 07 12:57pm
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Voted : no
If a disease that causes a long, slow, painful death won't stop them from having sex, what the hell will?
Voted : no
I vaguely remember being a kid living in Virginia. Abstinence was tossed right in with virtually every piece of education we got, and I have four friends who were parents before graduating high school.
My personal view is abstainace classes dont work, if you dont teach sex education then how can they be fully aware of what they are abstaining from???
And.... can every single person who shouts for abstainance really say they have never taken part in sex outside of marriage?
Voted : Brainwashing doesn't overcome horny endorphins
Most idealistic bullshit!
Horny young people are horny young people,
and endorphins are THE sweetest drug in the world,
over and above anything else
Voted : no
Abstinence-only sex ed tries to stop something that's almost assured of happening (that is, sex before marriage) and in the process ensures that the kids who go through the classes won't know how to use protection that actually works.
Voted : no
You're right, Aya, brainwashing cannot block primary drives. Period. And it always puzzles me that these uptight, twisted, and demented souls who want to "save" you always waste so much time on suppressing the fun in life.
Voted : no
I think the government wastes money just to get the support of "values" conservatives.
What a shocker: A Bush program that is executed so poorly that it fails miserably.
On the other hand -- and not meaning to sound too rightwing -- but in the U.S., the one factor that correlates most closely with women spending their adult years in poverty is having a child out of wedlock in their teens or early twenties. So there is a serious problem.
The sex drive is the second most powerful force in the animal kingdom. The first one being self-preservation. A barrage of classes isn't going to squelch anybody's sex drive.
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