No one gets lynched for exfoliating is the greatest come back I’ve ever witnessed.
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the sex pot
(hell, yeah) Scarleteen: 60 Percent Of Young Adults Misinformed About Birth Control As Abstinence-Only Education Flourishes: Study
Sixty percent of young adults between the ages of 18 and 29 may not truly understand how proper use of contraception can prevent pregnancy, according to a new study from the Guttmacher Institute, which reports abstinence-only sex education may be leaving young adults with a subpar…
(Source: ibtimes.com)
To the pearl-clutchers who recoil at the thought of sex education….
The other day I visited a friend, and her aunts and uncles and other family members were there. I made mention of Condom-A-Thon, an event my school’s health ed department holds during World AIDS Week, in which students learn to either use a condom properly or make a dental dam from a condom or glove and are rewarded with ice cream. General response: “What is the world coming to? Ice cream for safer sex skills?”
“Safer sex skills? Anything but that!!”
Oh, I’m sorry! I didn’t know that it was wrong to teach students (and by students, I mean legal adults generally mature enough to make their own sexual decisions) to properly prevent STI’s such as AIDS, as well as unplanned pregnancy.
Additionally, I didn’t know that you could implicitly speak for your sons and daughters’ sexual habits! I don’t know how you can be so sure that they will never need to know these skills! They’re not having premarital sex, you say? Well, I don’t think you should be so sure of that, since one of them confided in me that they have been having sex with their boyfriend and wanted advice on birth control from me; however, even if they were not, apparently you can assure me that they will not need to know these skills after marriage. Procreative sex only, right?
And of course, that’s just your children. Other college students do have sex, and will, regardless of what you say to them. It’s important for them to know about forms of birth control. But I guess you can speak for them as well, huh?
Just because you do not approve of premarital sex or birth control does not mean that other people feel the same way, and it certainly does not mean that you should have the right to block the spread of information on sexuality and harm reduction. You can choose to use or not use the information you are given; however, if you are never given the information, you cannot use it even if you want to.
They gave me condoms
ohiowomenforplannedparenthood:
I learned of Planned Parenthood at the 2000 Ozzfest Tour, when they gave out free condoms. Some people blew up their condoms like balloons, but not me! My boyfriend and I used our condoms for the intended purpose! Now, thanks to Planned Parenthood and their free condoms, I am not pregnant! Thanks Planned Parenthood!
Joellan
Ohio
I love that this is a message in a popular cartoon.
Thank you, universe.
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Anais Pouliot photographed by Viktor Vauthier
“ An official of Pakistan’s AIDS control program….[said] that the problem was smaller in his country because of ‘better social and Islamic values.’ This, in a state where the law allows a woman to be sentenced to be gang-raped in order to expiate the ‘shame’ of a crime committed by her brother.
Christopher Hitchens in “God is Not Great”