Re: Sarah Palin?
FWIW, I think that sex ed in school should be handled just like anti-smoking or anti-gun violence education for youthful offenders is handled by some states:
You know how they'll drag the kids down to the morgue, or subject them to a video, with graphic images of rotting, tar-filled lungs or horrible gunshot wounds, to discourage them from smoking or joining a gang?
Show'em a picture of birth. Not conception--BIRTH. Then show them the follow-up (preferably live, with all the scents and noise): baby poop, baby vomit, strech marks, and maybe a nice third-degree vaginal tear taking weeks to heal. If you've got a picture, a birth-related anal fistula would be a terrific throw-in, too. Finally, top it off with a nice graphic picture of AIDS-related open skin sores and maybe a real a postmortem brain ravaged by syphillis. Or, even better: a uterus decimated by PID or a penis covered with herpes warts.
Then tell them that, every time they are thinking of having unprotected sex, think of living with these results every day for the next eighteen (or more) years.
This will end all this abstinence-only v. hand-out-condoms-in-the-nurse's-office stuff. Both of those options are outside reality because they require WAY TOO MUCH responsibility and motivation on the part of the kids.
FWIW, I think that sex ed in school should be handled just like anti-smoking or anti-gun violence education for youthful offenders is handled by some states:
You know how they'll drag the kids down to the morgue, or subject them to a video, with graphic images of rotting, tar-filled lungs or horrible gunshot wounds, to discourage them from smoking or joining a gang?
Show'em a picture of birth. Not conception--BIRTH. Then show them the follow-up (preferably live, with all the scents and noise): baby poop, baby vomit, strech marks, and maybe a nice third-degree vaginal tear taking weeks to heal. If you've got a picture, a birth-related anal fistula would be a terrific throw-in, too. Finally, top it off with a nice graphic picture of AIDS-related open skin sores and maybe a real a postmortem brain ravaged by syphillis. Or, even better: a uterus decimated by PID or a penis covered with herpes warts.
Then tell them that, every time they are thinking of having unprotected sex, think of living with these results every day for the next eighteen (or more) years.
This will end all this abstinence-only v. hand-out-condoms-in-the-nurse's-office stuff. Both of those options are outside reality because they require WAY TOO MUCH responsibility and motivation on the part of the kids.
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