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Your hard-earned tax dollars are teaching kids that vaginas are like chewed-up gum and men are sexual microwaves
Anna Pulley, AlterNet
Despite the fact that 95 percent of Americans have premarital sex, and that this has been true for decades, abstinence-only education continues to be taught in classrooms across the U.S. Abstinence programs have received $1.75 billion in federal funds since the creation of the Title V abstinence-only-until-marriage program in 1996, and thats not including the Adolescent Family Life Act, created in 1981. What, exactly, are your hard-earned tax dollars teaching Americas youth about sex? Oh, just that its dirty, disgusting, shameful, and worthless, at least according to the following abstinence messages.
1. Sexually active girls are like used chocolate
2. Sex is like backwash.
3. Kissing gives you AIDS.
4. Sex is like duct tape.
5. Men are like Hot Pockets.
6. Your halter top will bring about the fall of civilization.
7. Your vagina is like chewed-up gum or a used toothbrush.
8. Gay people dont exist.
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Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)She said when the information about a young lady is told if she has sex before marriage no man will want her, like chewed gum. She said the instructors can not know what every girl they are talking to is not the victim of sexual abuse or not and to tell someone they are worthless, it is not good.