SEX ED.

No, no I am not going to be giving an lessons on how to please your woman...even though I could, heh heh heh..nudge nudge. All right enough of that nonsense. What I intend to post about is a case that is taking part in Texas. As the story goes a large group of people are boycotting Girl Scout cookies. Why, you may ask, would anyone boycott those delectable little cookies sold by those cute precocious little cherubs? Well apparently a troop down there named some woman from Planned Parenthood as a woman of distinction or some other name of praise. Also the Girl Scouts allowed Planned Parenthood to use their name on some flyers of theirs (nothing about abortion) and in some of their sex ed classes. The article that I read mentioned that the class taught, besides sex, homosexuality, masturbation and condom usage. Now, the Girl Scouts gave no money to Planned Parenthood and did not require or even ask the girls to attend. The classes were intended for a middle school audience. Apparently the boycott failed because some people bought cases of cookies in protest of the boycott and the girls made more money than the would have ever hoped for. So how do these parents respond? They take their girls out of the Girl Scout and Brownies program and then enroll them in some brainwashing, I mean Christian program.

The point of this post is not to tell you guys about some whacked out, uptight, backwater hicks from Texas. No, shit like that happens all of the time. I mean to talk to you guys about sex ed. Why are people so afraid of sex? Why are people so afraid to even have a frank intelligent conversation about sex with their children? I can imagine that it is an amazingly embarrassing and awkward thing to do, I am definitely not looking forward to it. That is why schools should teach sex ed. These kids are going to learn about it somewhere. Would rather it be from numbnuts down the street, or MTV, or from some magazine like Maxim? Or would you rather have a licensed educator teach your kids about pregnancy, contraception, STDs and how to prevent them?

Study after study after study has shown that if you have sex ed in school then teen pregnancy, STDs and even sexual activity altogether goes down. Also the use of condoms among other contraception goes up. And if you teach abstinence or no sex ed at all, then the opposite happens, teen pregnancy, STDs and sexual activity increase? Also, the use of protection goes down. Studies also show that the earlier you teach the kids about sex the better off they are, I am talking middle school here not toddlers. But no, for some reason many people out there are just plain afraid of sex, I just do not understand it. These kids are not stupid, if you just treat them like the budding adults that they are then you will see drastic changes in how they act and live their lives. But if you want to shield your children from all the "dirty" and "harmful" things that are out there then you will have an uneducated child overwhelmed by what the world has to offer. And yes I know that I have a child becuse of broken protection and premarital sex, so let's please be adult about this and not mention what we already know.