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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sun Apr 20, 2014, 09:12 PM Apr 2014

8 most absurd lessons Americans teach kids about sex

Your hard-earned tax dollars are teaching kids that vaginas are like chewed-up gum and men are sexual microwaves
Anna Pulley, AlterNet

Despite the fact that 95 percent of Americans have premarital sex, and that this has been true for decades, abstinence-only education continues to be taught in classrooms across the U.S. Abstinence programs have received $1.75 billion in federal funds since the creation of the Title V abstinence-only-until-marriage program in 1996, and that’s not including the Adolescent Family Life Act, created in 1981. What, exactly, are your hard-earned tax dollars teaching America’s youth about sex? Oh, just that it’s dirty, disgusting, shameful, and worthless, at least according to the following abstinence messages.

1. Sexually active girls are like used chocolate

2. Sex is like backwash.

3. Kissing gives you AIDS.

4. Sex is like duct tape.

5. Men are like Hot Pockets.

6. Your halter top will bring about the fall of civilization.

7. Your vagina is like chewed-up gum or a used toothbrush.

8. Gay people don’t exist.

http://www.salon.com/2014/04/21/8_most_absurd_lessons_americans_teach_kids_about_sex_partner/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

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8 most absurd lessons Americans teach kids about sex (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2014 OP
Elizabeth Smart had the most imtelligent response to sexual training I have ever heard. Thinkingabout Apr 2014 #1
Men are like Hot Pockets. progressoid Apr 2014 #2
Subject to recall due to faulty meat? 4_TN_TITANS Apr 2014 #4
Well played. Agschmid Apr 2014 #5
this alien gives the most important sex ed lesson certainot Apr 2014 #3

Thinkingabout

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1. Elizabeth Smart had the most imtelligent response to sexual training I have ever heard.
Sun Apr 20, 2014, 09:40 PM
Apr 2014

She said when the information about a young lady is told if she has sex before marriage no man will want her, like chewed gum. She said the instructors can not know what every girl they are talking to is not the victim of sexual abuse or not and to tell someone they are worthless, it is not good.

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