Shall I compare thee to a dirty shoe? (Sex Education)
Source: ACLU of Northern California
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The textbook that Clovis Unified uses for high school sex education does not mention condoms at all, even in chapters about HIV/AIDS and on preventing STDs and unintended pregnancy. Instead, for example, the textbook lists that the ways to prevent STDs are to respect yourself, get plenty of rest, go out as a group and practice abstinence.
The curriculum teaches that all people, even adults, should avoid sexual activity until they are married. Additional materials compare a woman who is not a virgin to a dirty shoe and suggest that men are unable to stop themselves once they become sexually aroused.
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“The sex ed in Clovis high schools violates state law and gives inaccurate, biased information to students,” said Phyllida Burlingame, Reproductive Justice Policy Director at the ACLU of Northern California. “Schools should teach teens about building healthy relationships, the benefits of delaying sexual activity, and accurate information about condoms and birth control. That’s what state law requires and that’s what meets the needs of teens.”
This lawsuit is the first of its kind in California since the passage of the state’s 2003 law requiring that sexual health education in public schools be comprehensive, medically accurate, science-based, and bias-free. Comprehensive sex education includes instruction about condoms and contraception, as well as abstinence.
Read more: https://www.aclunc.org/news/press_releases/parents_and_doctors_sue_clovis_unified_school_district_over_sex_education.shtml
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It went as follows: Men want ONE THING, and when they get that ONE THING, they will throw a woman away like a used kleenex. Any woman who is not a virgin on her wedding night is used goods, filthy and not to be trusted. The only thing that makes a girl valuable is her virginity. Nothing else about her matters. When you go out on a date, do anything except kiss and hug because that leads to SEX and that is awful, filthy and horrible.
They showed us movies in high school of Ann Landers talking about this crap, with her bad dentures, and her hair sprayed helmet hair, like she was some kind of moral authority.
I graduated from high school in 1972 in a large, excellent school district in Texas.
I believed this bullshit because we had no sex education in school, I had no idea what the sex organs of boys looked like or how they functioned. I was clueless. I could not figure out what the boy had to do to the girl to get her pregnant.
Senior year in high school they showed us a movie of two virgins doing something in the back seat (They didn't tell us or show us anything) that somehow gave both of them VD and when they walked around it was implied that they were contagious, like they could breathe on someone and give them VD like it was a cold. I am still enraged oveor the fact that they didn't have the guts to teach us about sex.
Our parents were the people who fought WWII, and none of them would tell us anything about sex. My dad was born in 1911 and my mom in 1921. When I was five, my mom was cooking eggs and I asked her why some eggs turn into chickens and some don't. She said "they just do". I knew she was lying so I did not ask her any more questions.
They showed us the movie about menstruation in 4th grade so we would not leave bloody trails in the school hallways. They told us nothing about sex except "Someday you will grow up and want to have children" with no explanation as to why.
Her twin sister Dear Abby was a lot more reasonable than Ann.
When I was dating boys in college, I knew a couple of them who had mothers who thought I was the absolute scum of the earth because their sons had told them I was not a virgin. Like their son was some prize that I was supposed to save myself for.
Judging somebody by their virginity is a damned shallow way of judging them. I've been judged that way.
"Sex belongs in marriage. This is what it's for. Sex without a good spiritual and emotional relationship is just like sneezing. It's something you get over. But it doesn't mean anything." --Ann Landers
She's fetishising that piece of paper, that state-issued screwing license, just like a Christian fundie would.
"There is no evidence whatsoever that people who do experiment sexually have miserable sex or love lives later on. I would like to see sex portrayed as a good thing not nasty or wicked or evil and therefore made to seem enticing. The double standard of sexual morality is fortunately disappearing." --Albert Ellis
