I'm confused about Melissa McEwan's 'the WOMEN ARE GETTING RAPED! in AFRICA' as the only form as sexual activity for African woman.
Apparently, putting abstinence education on the table of sex-ed education is a HORRIBLE UN-PROGRESSIVE thing, but when someone proposed a situation where a woman didn't have access to adequate protection (which is a reality in some places), the answer was.
"Well the woman can just say no."
HUH? So then, what's so horrible about emphasizing abstinence?
Frankly, as the daughter of an epidemiologist who deals with STDs, we do need sex-ed that focuses on contraception and protection (when I was in elementary school it did and I'm in Florida). But people really do need to chill about abstinence because guess what? You won't get pregnant or a STD if you don't have sex!
In middle/high school there is pressure to have sex from peers/relationship partners and hell yeah I think a portion of sex-ed should be "you don't need to have sex until you're ready to handle the consequences."
my two cents
EDIT: And the outrage boils down to, 'he didn't say the word rape?' Um...okay?
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Date: 2008-04-14 09:32 pm (UTC)Apparently, putting abstinence education on the table of sex-ed education is a HORRIBLE UN-PROGRESSIVE thing, but when someone proposed a situation where a woman didn't have access to adequate protection (which is a reality in some places), the answer was.
"Well the woman can just say no."
HUH? So then, what's so horrible about emphasizing abstinence?
Frankly, as the daughter of an epidemiologist who deals with STDs, we do need sex-ed that focuses on contraception and protection (when I was in elementary school it did and I'm in Florida). But people really do need to chill about abstinence because guess what? You won't get pregnant or a STD if you don't have sex!
In middle/high school there is pressure to have sex from peers/relationship partners and hell yeah I think a portion of sex-ed should be "you don't need to have sex until you're ready to handle the consequences."
my two cents
EDIT: And the outrage boils down to, 'he didn't say the word rape?' Um...okay?