Mom attends son’s sex-ed class, live tweets disapproval of abstinence-only lessons

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://blog.sfgate.com/sfmoms/2015/04/17/mom-attends-sons-sex-ed-class-live-tweets-disapproval-of-abstinence-only-lessons/
A Michigan teenager was frustrated by what he was learning in his sexual education class.

The teacher at East Lansing High School was focusing lessons on abstinence and the negative consequences of having sex, making it seem like a shameful act.

This boy’s mother was equally irritated when her son shared what he was learning and Alice Dreger asked to sit in on the next class.

Dreger, who is the author Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science, was shocked by what she observed and a series of tweets she wrote from the sidelines of the class have gone viral, sparking a conversation around sex-ed in school. Should kids be taught that sex is pleasurable and provided with information on contraception? Or should they be told to abstain all-together prior to marriage?
http://blog.sfgate.com/sfmoms/2015/04/17/mom-attends-sons-sex-ed-class-live-tweets-disapproval-of-abstinence-only-lessons/


Teacher says to me "I agree that sex is good in a loving relationship." I said it can be plenty terrific without. He looked shocked. Shocked

[hifiguy]

1. Good for her.

Ignorance as never a good thing, and we already have far too much of it.

[dhill926]

2. Mom of the year!

She seems seriously cool....and funny as hell...

[beam me up scottie]

3. “You’ll find a good girl. If you find one who says ‘no,’ that’s the one you want,”

The guest speaker went on to share that he later met the woman of his dream’s who refused to have sex until marriage. “You’ll find a good girl. If you find one who says ‘no,’ that’s the one you want,” he shared.

Next the teacher addressed contraception, focusing on the fact that condoms can fail.

In her essay filled with sarcasm and dry humor, Drager shares:

At this point, it became clear to me that while this was not technically abstinence-only sex education, it was terror-based sex education. By now, we had learned that sex is associated with drug abuse, drug overdose, disease, unwanted pregnancy—pretty much every horror you can name except shingles and Lawrence Welk.

And that good girls say “no,” and you don’t want you no slut who says “yes.”

Paper babies are being handed out to EVERYONE. They have ALL HAD CONDOM FAILURE AND THE WHOLE CLASS IS PREGNANT.

It's funny in a way, but not really. This is what they're teaching high schoolers?

Jesus Christ we're doomed.

[WestSeattle2]

4. The level of willful ignorance in this country regarding

human sexuality, boggles the mind.

[hifiguy]

5. Stuff like this always reminds me of a great quote from Marlene Dietrich:

"In America, sex is an obsession. In other parts of the world it is a fact."

[Arugula Latte]

6. Another facet of our lives twisted and destroyed by mythology, aka religion.

[hifiguy]

7. rAmen to that, AL!