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Friday, June 9, 2006

The Latest Weapon in the Abstinence-Only Arsenal

Posted by on June 9 at 18:00 PM

Lollipops.

Sweet, cherry-flavored lollipops.


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These are the same people who have the following to say about masturbation:
"Sexual self stimulation along with fantasy or pornography can actually train a person to bond to pictures, objects, ect., and may eventually leave the person unable to respond sexually to a real person. Sex therapists consider masturbation the first stage of sexual addiction for sex addicts. This practice should not be encouraged as a “safe” sexual practice." Personally I find the thought of a bunch of hot virgins sucking on these lollipops very... arousing.

Do they have to ruin candy too.

Now I know better then to stick sugary candy into a vagina, but still, wouldn't it be fun to use abstinence candy as a sexual stimulant. God I wish I had those in my high school.

Here's a thought experiment...

The strategy.
Get tested TOGETHER for a variety of sexually transmitted infections, including human immunodeficiency virus and share the results with your potential sex partner BEFORE having sex.

Here's a collaborative blog about
the strategy of let's get tested together before we have sex...
for STDs

NotB4WeKnow.blogspot.com

Comments, feedback, suggestions, questions welcome...

What public health officials, journalists have observed the
phenomenon of potential sex partners getting tested TOGETHER BEFORE having sex?...

I've been teaching abstinence ed. in WA. public schools for over 3 years and the facts speak for themselves. Despite Comprehensive Sex Ed. having been taught in the King County school Dist. for 20 years they have nothing to show for it except lower teen pregnancy. However, the fact that STD's continue to increase among teens and young adults shows that teens are engaging in forms of sexual expression such as oral and anal sex. Rag all you want on Abstinence Ed. bottom line is Comp. Sex Ed. hasn't been working in Seattle.

You know as much as people bitch about STDS. Most are not a big deal. With the exception of a few big baddies, most are either curable, or have rather minor symptoms. Hell ,one of the baddies, HPV can now be vaccinated against. I mean who would really give up sex to be free of crabs or gonorrhea. Put a little ointment on it and go one with your life.

Honestly we deal with colds, flues, TB, etc in order to have regular human contact. Funny how we isolate certain disease by labeling them STDs, but fail to say label warts as hand-shake transmitted diseases, or colds as talking transmitted diseases. Being around other people is risky business. Not as much any more, but still risky. However, we gladly take the risk of TB, bird flue, etc for human contact. Why should sex be regarded as any different. Take reasonable precautions and chances are you’ll be fine.

By the way, studies have shown that kids who get abstinence only education wide up with higher rates of STD's and teen pregnancy.

I am a fairly recent product of this sex ed system. Oral and anal sex were not discussed. Period. I graduated high school without the slightest clue what STDs you could get from a blowjob. It wasn't until college when a good friend got gonorrhea in her throat that we got a wakeup call. Oh, and she was a 'virgin' too.

The problem with Comp. Sex Ed. is that it all too often isn't complete. They tell you not to get knocked up, rundown the STD list and show how to put on a condom. (Which, by the way, we had to dispose of one at a time in a hazmat bag per school rules once the demonstration was over)

Since people can't agree on what information is deemed appropriate for teenagers, they end up with chunks of knowledge instead of the big picture.

So, to carry on this analogy to its logical conclusion: sharing lollipops is gross. But sucking your lollipop for a while, and then putting it away in the crotch of your underpants for a while, and then taking it out and letting the same person suck it a day/week/month/year later is cool.

Do boys get this same treatment?

"bottom line is Comp. Sex Ed. hasn't been working in Seattle."

When I was in high school in Eastern Washington we had nothing but abstinence education. They went through the list of diseases, showing photos of crazy syphillitics and chanting "this is what will happen to you if you have sex". We had absolutely no mention of birth control of any kind. The tactic was to scare everyone away from sex and then to use positive messages like "think of the fantastic life you'll have ten years from now with the perfect spouse who's been waiting all this time for you, too."

The result? Everyone was having sex anyway, no one knew anything about protecting themselves, and there were something like 23 pregnancies in my class of 200 my senior year.

I don't get the right's obsession with virginity, anyway. Sex with woman who's a virgin is not exactly a super-fun time. From my experience, there's lots of nervousness, clumsiness, some pain/discomfort, emotions running rampant, etc. Plus, the woman feels some of that stuff, too.

Having deflowered three boys in my time and one man, I can tell you that sex with a man who's a virgin is not exactly my idea of a high old time, either.

"Ow!"
"Sorry."

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