5 Offensive Analogies Abstinence-Only Lessons Use To Tell Teens Sex Makes Them Dirty
Source: Think Progress
Whenever the subject material of an abstinence-only lesson is reported in the media, Americans are typically shocked to hear what kids are hearing in their classes or at their school assemblies. In addition to withholding valuable information about preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, some of these courses also rely on harmful shame-based attitudes about human sexuality to impart negative messages to the 95 percent of Americans who have sex before marriage.
Here are five common analogies that abstinence-only curricula use to teach youth that becoming sexually active will make them worthless — and five good reasons that more states should enact comprehensive sex education requirements:
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4. A cup of spit.
“Drink the spit” is an exercise that requires students to pass around a cup and spit in it. Then, students are asked if they would choose to drink that cup. The idea is the same as the chocolate or the tape lessons — having multiple sexual partners, and subsequently exchanging bodily fluids with multiple people, is undesirable. Sometimes the symbolism of this lesson gets pretty explicit. For instance, one variation involves pouring the cups of spit into an empty glass pitcher placed next to a pitcher of clean water. Students are asked to which pitcher they would like their “future husband” or “future wife” to come from.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/04/07/3423582/abstinence-only-dirty-analogies/
who comes up with this shite?!
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She was part of the virginity/double standard cult.
She was uptight and ranted about how boys only want one thing(without telling us what that was), and if they get it they'll drop you like a used Kleenex.
Yes, I actually saw her say this in a movie they showed us in a high school. Public high school.
The purpose was to make us feel guilty and shameful about any sexual thoughts we had.
She said this through her ill-fitting dentures. She said that on a date, you should go bowling or play miniature golf.
You should do ANYTHING except kissing and making out. That was the worst thing you could do. Kissing and making out, or god forbid, having sex, made you "used goods" and worthless if you were a girl.
She repeated that crap from the 50s to the 80s, and Middle America listened to it, and believed it.
I didn't know anything different, because my parents (adults in WWII generation) told us absolutely nothing about sex. The high school didn't tell us anything about sex, and what they told us to scare us was inaccurate.
And they wonder why girls don't have self-esteem?