Sex Ed 101

by Katie • Sep 4th, 2008 at 8:20 am • 4 comments

Hi all-

I’m writing as a DI columnist this semester, and Josh suggested I post my columns on Urbanagora.
Here’s this week’s.
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  1. Comment by Joshua on 4 September 2008 at 4:36 pm:

    Katie, This was a great column. I also am glad you picked something topical but had the class to not mention “Juno from Juneau.” (I can mention it when commenting on not mentioning it, right?)

    I thought you were tough, but I’d like to see a little more mocking ridicule of the mindset of the right wingers who push abstinence only education.

    That said, I hope you, my dear, are still destined for the nunnery!! :p

  2. Comment by tet on 4 September 2008 at 5:41 pm:

    Well, considering that Bristol went to Alaskan public schools, which teach sex ed starting at about fifth grade, one could hardly equate her being knocked-up with any kind of abstinence education, whatsoever. It’d merely be typical snarky bullshit of the kind that could lose the election for the Democrats. Remember that the Christians (and others) who are pushing for this kind of sex-ed don’t believe that their kids are less prone to sinning than anyone else’s. It’s utopian liberals who believe in the perfectability of humanity.

    I have my doubt as to whether or not abstinence-based education does much to prevent teen pregnancy. There is one very interesting statistic that those who oppose it always fail to mention, though.

    Kids who were in abstinence programs ended up with 35% less STDs than those who were in standard sex-ed programs (4.6% versus 7% of the population). I’m very curious as to why this is. It might have something to do with having fewer partners, since in small-town American, where most of these programs exist, it is traditional not to screw until you’re engaged. Nonetheless, it could provide evidence that the programs do not deserve as much ridicule as Joshua might think.

    Tom

  3. Comment by JayBandit on 4 September 2008 at 10:06 pm:

    I’m sorry, but I stopped reading when I read “my favorite line from a Miley Cyrus hit single…”

  4. Comment by thetodd on 5 September 2008 at 2:33 pm:

    Something I’ve recently wondered about:

    Is “I stopped reading because …” one of those things like “LOL” that people type even when they aren’t really laughing? Or do people really stop reading most of the time they say that?

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