Tennessee Sex Education Bill Promotes Abstinence-Only, Warns Against 'Gateway Sexual Activity'

[Bozita]

Tennessee Sex Education Bill Promotes Abstinence-Only, Warns Against 'Gateway Sexual Activity'
Posted: 04/ 8/2012 1:48 pm Updated: 04/ 8/2012 1:48 pm


Tennessee lawmakers added language to the state's abstinence-only sex education curriculum that warns against "gateway sexual activity."

Although Senate Bill 3310 does not specifically define what "gateway sexual activity" comprises, many have interpreted the phrase to include discouragement of anything that has potential to lead to sex -- including kissing, hand-holding and cuddling.

The bill is a response to recent controversies over sex-ed lessons in some Tennessee school districts that mentioned alternatives to sexual intercourse, according to The Tennessean. A 2009 Youth Risk Behavior study found that 61 percent of Memphis City high school and 27 percent of middle school students have had sex -- higher than the national average, according to WMC-TV.

"'Abstinence' means from all of these activities, and we want to promote that," Republican state Sen. Jack Johnson, the bill's sponsor, told The Tennessean. "What we do want to communicate to the kids is that the best choice is abstinence."

The bill would require a "family life education curriculum" that prohibits the promotion of contraception and "any gateway sexual activity or health message that encourages students to experiment with non-coital sexual activity."

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[RKP5637]

1. This, is sick!!! So backward. Back to good old backward times. n/t

[mactime]

2. gateway sexual activity

I don't know if I should laugh or cry

[elleng]

3. 'Gateway sexual activity' = growing up!

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Jesus, 40 years ago, my sex ed teacher (also the head coach of the football team) started the first

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class with this opening salvo:

"I know that 1 in 2 of you is already engaging in what is commonly called sexual fornification. So my job is to teach you how to engage without contracting any harmful disease or condition and to decide when you want to have a baby. Because nothing I can say will stop you have having sex."



And lemme tell you, he gave us more information than our parents likely had and he expected us to know all the details. Hard grader. We were expected to know the five most effective forms of birth control (abstinence was a "gimme&quot and their failure rates. The Coach came right out and told us that Saran Wrap and a rubber band didn't cut it.


Poor deprived children in Tennessee.

[Fawke Em]

5. My Tennessee children aren't deprived, thankfully.

Because I've already talked to my nearly13-year-old son about contraception and plan to talk to my daughter when she's a little older, as well.

It's sad, though, that the children of bad parents, uneducated parents or parents who simply don't know how to talk to their kids won't learn these things, now.

[indepat]

30. The Tennessee governor and legislature are trying to ignoramize Tennesseans to a pre-1925

Scopes trial in Dayton, TN era in a world 6,000+ years old. Jackasses beyond compare.

[LadyHawkAZ]

6. I've been reliably informed

that removing the young girl's clitoris and labia with a razor or a piece of glass, then sewing the remainder shut until some guy purchases her (oh sorry, that would be "marriage&quot , fixes the problem of illicit sexual activity. I'm sure that bill will be the next one this moron sponsors. You just can't be too careful, after all. Think of the children!!

[trumad]

7. Always like posting a picture of the sex police.

Jack Johnson the bill sponsor:



Douche.

[JoePhilly]

15. Another right wing walking contraceptive.

[xxqqqzme]

8. What no virginity

certification?

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. Middle school children may no longer look at each other or say "hello"...

How far do these freaks need to take this?

[RKP5637]

16. Next, girls will be required to wear paper bags over their heads. And boys will

be forced to undergo chemical castration.

[appleannie1]

10. The more forbidden something is, the more humans want it. Natural hormones lead to sex so why

not just lock kids in solitary confinement between 12 and 20.

[Turbineguy]

11. "...gateway sexual activity..."?

Like getting up in the morning?

[jtuck004]

12. "...to include discouragement of anything that has potential to lead to sex..."

You mean like turning 12?

Or breathing?

That's all the gateway activity we need, cupcake. We're humans.

[intaglio]

13. I'm certain masturbation of any form is out

... next thing "nocturnal emissions" will be referred to a court appointed psychologist and girls who ride horses or bicycles will be regarded with suspicion.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

14. Queen Victoria would feel right at home today

and even more at home with Republican goals of suspending child labor laws and imposing a rigid class system. Charles Dickens could find new sources of inspiration.

[RC]

17. Breast feeding a baby is now child molestation.

Said baby will upon growing up will become either a rapist or a lesbian.

[Ilsa]

18. They want their kids to feel guilty

about using birth control? Even in a committed relationship like marriage?

Someone, please build a time machine and send these goobers back 100 years. And let them also deal with no antibiotics or safe blood transfusions. No cars. Child labor, working 6 days a week.

[mainer]

19. "Gateway sexual activity"? Like looking at a girl?

Pretty soon it's going to be like Afghanistan, where a woman can be condemned for showing her "tempting eyes."

[MrScorpio]

20. Is this a joke?

This is straight out of 1984, I hope they this

[surrealAmerican]

21. So, their "solution" to the obvious failure of abstinence-only education ...

... is to expand it to include more abstinence?

[saras]

22. Can't get any wronger without just going oiw4e5ygbiouyiu4y5kjasghuxfiguyaduyakgjahksg

The "gateway" concept IN GENERAL - 100 years of being repeatedly discredited, and they just WON'T let go of it.

Asserting that activities that are, in the real world, substitutes for intercourse are somehow LEADING TO intercourse.

Not developing one's sexuality until one's brain stops developing means you pretty much ALWAYS have a stunted sexuality.

Abstinence can easily be statistically demonstrated to be harmful in a large variety of ways, many of which vastly outweigh the risks of pregnancy or incurable disease. Worldwide cults of child molesters are only one possibility.

[DutchLiberal]

23. Over here, in Europe, we look at things like that going on in the States and we think...

We simply don't get why the idea of people having sex is so upsetting to such large portions of Americans.

We don't get why a modern Western nation propose things like this -and have presidential candidates who are in favor of banning contraception -and have a state (Mississippi) practically outlawing all abortion, etc.

[Tom Ripley]

24. Cut off their hands!

[guitar man]

25. Meet your sex Ed instructor

Aunt Lydia

[rustydog]

26. Gateway sexual Activity? What is that, serving as an aide to David Vitter?

[bongbong]

29. Whuh?

I thought Shariah Law was illegal in TN.

[Initech]

33. I believe the technical term is "Book Of Deuteronomy"

[Initech]

32. WTF!!!! Do they honestly want to take us back to the dark ages?

This is honestly no different than Sharia law.