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A Sex Ed 101 curriculum for conservatives (Amanda Marcotte)
http://digg.com/newsbar/Politics/a_sex_ed_101_curriculum_for_conservativesRecent national kerfuffles over abortion and contraception access bring up many important questions: Should employers retain control over your wages and benefits after they sign them over to you? Is contraception, a service used by 99 percent of American women, really so controversial? How much state regulation should there be over womens most private decisions? But amidst all those questions is one overarching one: Do conservatives need a crash course in sex ed?
Usually, when we think of the sex education debate, we think of junior high and high school kids putting condoms on bananas. But recent events indicate that this country needs remedial sex education for adults, specifically social conservatives who wish to hold forth on reproductive rights without seeming to know the basics regarding who has sex and how it works in 2012. With that in mind, I designed a quick curriculum for these surprisingly necessary courses.
Intercourse 101: It Takes Two to Tango. After voting for a mandatory ultrasound bill that serves no other purpose than to shame abortion patients for their sexuality, Virginia delegate David Albo complained in the legislature that hes not getting the sex he feels entitled to from his wife. CNSNews columnist Craig Bannister shamed women on the pill for being sex-crazed co-eds who exhibit too much sexual zeal before ending his piece by wistfully wishing he could have sex with all the sexually active women he just insulted. Rush Limbaugh, who is on his fourth marriage and is an admitted Viagra user, called Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University law student who testified before Congress about her use of contraception, a slut and a prostitute.
In this first section of the remedial sex education course, we will discuss this sexual double standard: When having sex, men are behaving well and women behaving badly. The midterm will be an essay on the following prompt: If women are supposed to say no to sex, whom do you propose straight men sleep with?
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A Sex Ed 101 curriculum for conservatives (Amanda Marcotte) (Original Post)
swag
Mar 2012
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spooky3
(34,456 posts)1. Excellent. Everyone should read the whole thing. Why doesn't this get more emphasis:
"Special attention will be paid to the 28 states that already require contraception coverage, the existing Medicaid coverage of contraception, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission decision that found that contraception coverage is a normal part of womens healthcare that should be covered by healthcare plans." (in the linked column, in the OP)
swag
(26,487 posts)2. Good question.
The right has gotten so strange. Why are we having this fight?