Fla. Teens Believe Drinking Bleach Will Prevent HIV/Mt Dew stops pregnancy

[The Straight Story]

Survey: Fla. Teens Believe Drinking Bleach Will Prevent HIV
Some Teens Also Believe Mountain Dew Will Stop Pregnancy

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A recent survey that found some Florida teens believe drinking a cap of bleach will prevent HIV and a shot of Mountain Dew will stop pregnancy has prompted lawmakers to push for an overhaul of sex education in the state.

The survey showed that Florida teens also believe that smoking marijuana will prevent a person from getting pregnant.

State lawmakers said the myths are spreading because of Florida's abstinence-only sex education, Local 6 reported.

They are proposing a bill that would require a more comprehensive approach, the report said.

It would still require teaching abstinence but students would also learn about condoms and other methods of birth control and disease prevention.

http://www.local6.com/news/15773787/detail.html

[ck4829]

1. These are the fruits of abstinence-only education

Do something for the kids, K&R this post!

[Waya]

2. HArd to believe this is 2008......................

[The Straight Story]

4. Indeed, everyone knows it is Fabric Softener and not bleach

Education these days..... ;)

[hvn_nbr_2]

16. Yeah, and fabric softener helps with the abstinence too.

:crazy: :evilgrin:

[jwirr]

3. Is that some rw sex education program - sounds like it to me. nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear Straight Story!

Look for a spike in teen pregnancies and births over the next year...

Omigod!

How horrifying...

When people don't have proper information, they will seize on anything to fill the gaps...

Oh, yeah...abstinence works...to get them pregnant! :puke:

[ThomWV]

6. They tell kids that smoking weed will make them sterile, and then wonder why ...

Lieing sacks of shit tell kids that smoking pot leads to sterility and then wonder why kids believe that smoking post will prevent pregnancy. Now how in hell could that be?

[HuffleClaw]

40. seriously? n/t

[wtmusic]

7. True, it's hard to have sex when you're vomiting blood

but there must be a better way. :crazy:

[HereSince1628]

8. See what not knowing about poets leads to?

Vachel Lindsay, yes, you know, the clever guy who wrote:

Whirl ye the deadly voo-doo rattle,

Harry the uplands,

Steal all the cattle,

Rattle-rattle, rattle-rattle,

Bing.

Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, Boom



Crushed by financial worry (based on that last verse?), in poor health he sunk into depression, and on December 5, 1931, Lindsay committed suicide by drinking a bottle of disinfectant.

His last words something like "they were out to get me, but I got here first"

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. K&R!

:kick:

[Warpy]

10. K&R for the blinkered PIG IGNORANCE

this administration has allowed to flourish and spread due to the lack of honest, complete sex education.

I have no complaint about teaching abstinence as the ultimate prevention of both pregnancy and disease. I do complain about teaching it in such a total vacuum of information about how to have sex safely. Ignorant teenagers who listen to the demands of their bodies and who are desperate for information will always be suckers for stuff that can be fatal, like drinking bleach to prevent HIV. I do complain about dishonesty that says condoms offer no protection and that a six week fetus is equivalent to a six month old infant.

[MidwestTransplant]

11. Drinking enough bleach will prevent HIV and life itself.

[aquart]

12. Lotta dead teens in Florida?

[InsultComicDog]

13. But we wouldn't want to disenfranchise their parents

(sorry, I have a bizarre sense of humor)

[Arkansas Granny]

14. This is what happens when teens are kept ignorant of facts.

I have no problem with abstinence being taught as *ONE* method of birth control and disease prevention, but we owe it to teenagers to give them complete and comprehensive information on the subjects and access to reliable and effective birth control products.

[MindPilot]

22. I don't even get the concept of "teaching abstinence".

Obviously if you don't engage in an activity, that pretty much negates any risks associated with said activity. If that is something that has to be taught, the current crop of students are so damn dumb they will never be functional in the real world.

[MindPilot]

15. No matter how much they deny it exists...evolution still works.

Do they also believe that smoking banana peels gets you high?

The "faith-based" society is beginning to bear fruit.

[Quantess]

17. Back in the late 1980s, I read a teen-sex pamphlet listed myths vs facts

One of the myths dispelled: Douching with Pepsi or Coca Cola after intercourse will NOT prevent pregnancy.

[seabeyond]

18. i will let son read this one, throw in some critical thinking and let him know to ASK

if he hears anything stupid like this

[MindPilot]

28. Are you sure critical thinking is even allowed in school?

If they catch your son with any critical thinking--maybe during a backpack search--the principal will probably confiscate it and turn him over to the police.

[seabeyond]

30. lol lol you are funny. but seeing that i have an "in" doing all the volunteer work

y son gets away with that critical thinking kinda stuff

actually for texas, and the panhandle and religious belt, .... our school, teacher and adm are very open to thinking.

[LeftinOH]

19. Well, drinking bleach WILL prevent HIV (pregnancy, too)....

gotta love that abstinence-only program.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

20. Yeah...by killing the person doing the drinking...

Or were you thinking something else?

[JackBeck]

23. Opps, sorry Peggy.

Wrong place.

[LeftinOH]

36. ..I should've added the 'sarcasm' icon; that's exactly what I meant-

drinking bleach prevents disease ..with immediate death as a side effect. I'm sooo morbid.

[AngryAmish]

21. Florida, again

[Akoto]

24. Man. I'm from Florida, and ...

At 23, it wasn't long ago that I was in school. I left after 10th grade due to health issues, but back then, I can't recall anyone being so ignorant of the reproductive process and STDs. We learned about that stuff in middle school! What has gone wrong in the past few years?

[JackBeck]

25. I'm not surprised, I think I've heard just about it all when it comes to HIV/AIDS.

in vitro, bleach kills HIV, but we all know what happens when you drink bleach...

Add to that this monstrously failed abstinence only education and that the government still sends out materials misrepresenting how HIV is transmitted, I'm not surprised at all as to why there's all this confusion.

[One_Life_To_Give]

26. Try Reading Columbia U's "Ask Alice"

First went there when the controversy over librarians pointing people there. It was eye opening to realise how misinformed kids are.

[The Straight Story]

43. I have been there - everytime I have went my jaw drops

I cannot believe what I read there.

For those who want the link:
http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/

[Hydra]

27. This simply proves the fact

That you can take away the knowledge, but not the need for it.

The need for birth control isn't going to go away as long as we continue to need to breed as a species...but apparently lots of people think we can defy nature and win.

She always wins.

[madfloridian]

29. I tried to tell you guys about Florida...

but you didn't believe me. :evilgrin:

[guyanakoolaid]

31. Let's not talk about this publicly...

... and let Darwinism run its course

[KamaAina]

32. Is there some chemical they could drink to prevent teh stupid?

:eyes:

[progressoid]

33. Not to worry. Since the abstinence thing works so well, nobody will need to resort to bleach or Dew

[BlooInBloo]

34. Religion: 78556468, the well-being of humanity: 32...

... By god Americans loves them some stupidity.

[hootinholler]

35. I know empirically that at least for me 12 shots of tequilla will prevent pregnancy

I will be fast asleep by then.

:evilgrin:

-Hoot

[Beam Me Up]

37. Look, if I were a teenager and some one gave me a multiple choice

questionnaire with truly ridiculous options, I'd choose them too.

Questionnaires like this don't mean diddly squat so far as what teens really think. What was the percentage of 'stupid' responses, anyway?

[IronLionZion]

38. Is the whole state doing abstinence-only or is it just the republican areas?

There are a lot of Democrats in Florida as well. I'm skeptical about the whole thing...but still against abstinence-only education. Teens will get info from somewhere...peers, movies, internet, somewhere. It doesn't have to make sense for them to believe it.

It's no surprise that red state have more teen pregnancies.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

39. The name Margaret Mead comes to mind.

:evilgrin:

[Javaman]

41. This just in: little rocks float! nt

[varkam]

42. K&R

[DCKit]

44. If they start debunking stupid, when will they know to stop?

This could lead to real change.