Gov't Tells Singles No Sex Until Your 30.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

Just take a cold shower and think of Jesus. And, be sure to wash your hands after.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2619061

By BRIAN HARTMAN

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 2006 — If you're single and in your 20s, the federal government wants you to steer clear of sex.
That's the new guidance for states under the Department of Health and Human Services' $50 million Abstinence Education Program. HHS officials say it's not a requirement — just another option for states to combat what they call an alarming rise in out-of-wedlock births.

A record 1.5 million babies were born to single mothers in 2004, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. More than half of them were born to women in their early 20s.

"The government's clarification published in August is not a mandate," the Administration for Children and Families said in a statement prepared in response to ABC News questions. "We are unclear why Advocates for Youth suddenly believes (after two months) that States should be denied the flexibility to provide young adults with the truth that abstinence is the only 100 percent effective way of avoiding unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases."

The guidelines let states use federal grants to "identify groups" of people between the ages of 12 to 29 who "are most likely to bear children out of wedlock." After identifying the groups, targeted programs can then "support decisions to delay sexual activity until marriage."

[Virginia Dare]

1. $50 million toward changing human instinct....

I'm sure that will work..where's Nancy Reagan when you need her "Just Say No"!
:eyes:

[liberalhistorian]

17. Kinda reminds me of a bittersweet

routine some comic in the late 80's (forget his name now) did one time, on AIDS-prevention efforts. While lauding the attempts to reduce AIDS, he did a whole routine on "AIDS vs. the sex drive. The lizard brain, caveman sex drive. Yeah, right, I think we know who's gonna win on that one." It was funny, but poignant and bittersweet at the same time.

[HughBeaumont]

2. Right, because THAT's realistic.

Astounding broadbrush of Gen Y, isn't it?

[madokie]

3. its your soap and your part and no one says how fast you can wash it.

dig hole in sand, stick head therein.

[Deja Q]

4. Will they hand out free lovers upon our 30th birthday?

I'm 34, so I'm due about 4... :rofl:

Wait, wrong smilie...

:bounce:
:rofl:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. If you're over 30 sex doesn't interest you any more.

Didn't you get the instruction book?

[Deja Q]

12. Not *that* one...

:rofl:

[focusfan]

13. Hey I`m 48 sex and money is all I`m interested in

:evilgrin:

[liberalhistorian]

23. Really? Then I must be 25 instead of almost

42, because I'm far more interested in the mattress dance now than I ever was in my 20's! And I've never been married, either, I know, I'm such an eeeeeeeevil woman! :evilgrin:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

25. Tsk, tsk. How unAmerican of you.

But, God Bless naughty women. Especially the one in Japan who took pity on a 17 year old marine eager to lose his virginity. Thank you Yoko, wherever you are.

[fhqwhgads]

32. word, hypnotoad...

...i'm 29 and chaste against my will, so on my 30th birthday, i'd better get something for my trouble, dammit.

i just realized that was the second "i'm an old virgin" post i've made today. this hhs program seems to have struck a nerve. a bitter bitter nerve. :)

[Lisa]

33. and if so, where do I sign up?

My bet is that, in my late 30s, I've still had less premarital hanky-panky than most of the people pushing this kind of policy.

[coco77]

5. Here they go again..

telling us what to do with our lives and they have all of the freedom in the world. HYPOCRITES!

[pooja]

6. They are just trying to push the whole family thing and remind

women that it is completely unnatural to raise a child by yourself... It will lead to more "unfit" rulings in the future... A single mother is just more unfit to raise this child than these wonderful stepford parents... please you 27yr old pass over the goods... someone else has more money.

[liberalhistorian]

21. They can take my teenage son away from me

(I've never been married, but had him when I was 26) when they kill me first, and that's a promise.

[coco77]

29. With all of their divorces how can they talk...

aren't those single parents?

[unpossibles]

7. what about people that chose to have children outside of wedlock?

I have several friends who did so. They are in long term relationships but chose not get married, and most of them chose to have a child also.

<sarcasm> good thing we don't have Clinton's Big Brother Gubbermint right now tellin us what to do... </sarcasm>

[Left Is Write]

16. That was my first thought too.

Most of the women I know who had "out of wedlock" babies in their 20s knew full well what caused the pregnancies (I'm one of them!). Some of them even did it while simultaneously remaining abstinent.

[whistle]

8. Dawn of a new Victorian era regarding repressed sexual activity

....Sigmond Freud is turning over in his grave!

[BOSSHOG]

10. But its okay for married christian men to have sex with their daughters

Gotta keep the focus on the family.

Stay the fuck out of my bedroom and on occasion my backyard.

[DinahMoeHum]

11. Sheesh, these government people need to get laid and get a life

and stay the fuck out of ours.

:evilfrown:

[kestrel91316]

14. Next step: federal prohibition of selling birth control to unmarried

[liberalhistorian]

22. Actually, it was illegal for even

married couples, let alone unmarried ones, to use contraception in far too many states prior to the Supreme Court's ruling in Connecticut v. Griswold in the mid-1960's, which struck down prohibitions on the use of contraceptives. We'll just be coming full circle soon, I suppose. I can't understand why most Americans would put up with this shit.

[kestrel91316]

24. They will make a stink about it AFTER it happens. Until then,

they are too busy worrying about why Nicole Ritchie is so thin and what J-Lo is up to.

[liberalhistorian]

15. What's next, having to

meet with a gubmint counselor from the Ministry of Family Purity and Maintenance and sign our own "Personal Family Plan" at age 18, in which we promise to marry and pop out at least two kids by age 30, to only look for the "right" kind of partners in the "right" places, and where we pledge not to have sex until we're married on pain of imprisonment and/or other "punishments?" I cannot BELIEVE I'm seeing this in this country in the 21st century.

What do they think, that those under 30 are running around screwing every warm body they can find? Actually, that's closer to what those of us singles in our 30's and 40's are doing, but.......ooops, never mind, I just let the cat out of the bag on that one! :evilgrin: :bounce:

[arcane1]

18. 50 MILLION DOLLARS??????????????????

:wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf:


damn, I could come up with a better idea for a mere fraction of that!!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

19. Also, you could have a pretty good time with $50mil.

[Blue_Tires]

42. our tax dollars at work

tragic

[MountainLaurel]

20. Republic of Gilead, anyone?

Didn't they have a special program for women whose children were born out of wedlock?

[RobertSeattle]

26. Bush is trying to save his Twin's Virginity!!!

:rofl:
:rofl:
:rofl:
:rofl:
:rofl:

[Bucky]

36. I thought that's what the Secret Service was for

[NoAmericanTaliban]

27. The Christo-Fascists abstinence only policy is the reason there

is a record 1.5 million out of wedlock babies. By not promoting birth control methods such as condoms the christo-fascists are promoting singles from getting pregnant.

How many of these christo-fascists are tripping over themselves to adopt these babies???
Also, these women didn't get pregnant by themselves. Where is the accountability of the men that are knocking them up? Maybe we can get them to pay the $50 million.

[Gelliebeans]

28. Stay Clear of Sex with Republicans!

It is health advisory that I advocate.
;)

[lovuian]

30. The reason many births are from unwed mothers is INSURANCE

they don't have it

[Wednesdays]

31. Right. The Ceausescu approach to birth control.

:eyes:

[Xenotime]

34. They can't tell me what to do. Look what happened during prohibition...

and that was just alcohol. The fuckers try to regulate the natural instinct to procreate and there will be a massive backlash.

[Bucky]

35. I can tell you what to do. And I will. Stop having sex, Xeno. I mean NOW!!

Quit it! Quit it! Keep both your hands on top of the keyboard at all times. No, don't even scratch there!!

[WCGreen]

37. Watch out women.... I'm over thirty and I'm gonna sow my seed...

[mediaman007]

39. Think of the regret that someone will have when he/she

finds out how good it is. They'll just regret that they weren't floppin' together when they were 18!

I imagine that this proposal will be the final straw for drive-in movies. There are only a few left now, and without sex I imagine that their business will dwindle.

Come to think of it, is this anti-capitalist movement. It surely puts an end to free enterprise.

[WCGreen]

40. Free Willie......

at the Drive In....

[mediaman007]

41. ROTF-LOL

[Lefty48197]

38. Well that cures a whole lot of poverty and unwanted children issues.

Next topic?

[pitohui]

43. those damn decimal points

it being the GOP, they meant to say "no sex until you're 3" and that means you, mr. page-boy seducer of mark foley!

[sutz12]

44. They should be celebrating...

after all, that represents 1.5 million abortions not performed, right?