Jim Hightower: Uh Oh, Kids in Texas "Get a Pretty Good Sex Education from Their Animals"
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Uh Oh, Kids in Texas "Get a Pretty Good Sex Education from Their Animals"
That's the talk of Texas political pandering to interests that don't want to fund real sex education.
March 20, 2013 |
In 2009, an interim Texas school superintendent declared that sex-education classes were unnecessary in his rural district. Most of the area’s school kids live on farms, he explained, therefore: “They get a pretty good sex education from their animals.”
It’s this kind of thinking that makes Texas so special.
That specialness has now flowered in our state senate. Ken Paxton, a right-wing Republican from a Dallas suburb, is proposing to ban Planned Parenthood from providing sex-education materials to any Texas school. Paxton says the organization favors sexual freedom for women and girls, and — well, we can’t have that in our classrooms, can we?
Of course, Paxton is really just pandering to anti-abortion extremists. Planned Parenthood has become the favorite whipping girl of that faction, so piling on it is considered great sport by cheap-shot, political opportunists like Paxton. ..................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/uh-oh-kids-texas-get-pretty-good-sex-education-their-animals
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A lot of crappy comments
And I knew nothing about boys. I had no brothers and had no idea what their plumbing was like. There was a conspiracy of silence to not ever talk about sex or explain how babies are made.
I think that's child abuse. They showed us the menstruation movie in 4th grade. Mom had to sign a note for me to see it.
That was so we wouldn't leave bloody trails in the school halls and know how to use a pad (Yes I am old enough to remember those horrible elastic belts). That was before sticky back pads. In the 1960s.
My grandmother told me about making diapers for herself in high school, because they didn't even have kotex then. She was born in 1898.
The movie was baffling because it told us we would be able to have babies after we started menstruating, but of course told us NOTHING about what the male's role in it was.
They showed us a misleading movie in high school that implied that VD could be acquired by two virgins having sex with each other, and that the germs could be passed along by sneezing on somebody.
Of course when you see a cross section in a book of a limp penis they are not going to explain what an erection is. So I was completely uninformed.
Absolutely child abuse with misinformation and lack of information.
