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[mllelaurel]

Funding for abstinence education likely to drop

Gooood, sez I. Maybe now the number of teenage pregnancies and STDs will go down as well.

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[mirrored-echo.livejournal.com]

About time, too. That one's too easy to get into a rant about -- I'm not even going to get started.

[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

Indeed! My high school's health program may have been kind of crappy, but it was still better than abstinence ed.

[mirrored-echo.livejournal.com]

My favorite part was this "timeline" the abstinence-ed people acted out for us in class, using the average age of hitting puberty (13), marriage (25), and death (75). Essentially, the argument was that if we waited for 12 years, we'd have 50 years of "great sex" (those words exactly!) for the rest of our lives. So, in the long run, why not wait?

...and yes, they said all of that with a straight face!

[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

*dead* ...Now I'm getting an idea for a film - like Reefer Madness, only with Abstinence Education. Cause this stuff is comedy gold.

[nevacaruso.livejournal.com]

You should so totally do this.

[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

Bwahahah!