Saturday, January 10, 2009

Teenagers Are Gonna Have Sex, So Let's Help Them Out!

That's the message moonbats have about teenage sex.

Perhaps instead of gearing our entire system of sex ed towards a distinct religious minority made largely of upper middle-class white Christian conservatives we could, oh, I don’t know, not do that? We could approach the entire nation of under-18 potential sex-havers as uptight WASPs who’ll be persuaded by hamhanded references to knights and princesses and condoms t=hat work like penis netting rather than prophylactics,

Or we could use the screwed up (pun intended) approach of leftwing nuts who think emphasizing self-control is for the weak and teaching children that having sex as children has frequent and undesirable outcomes is old fashioned. That approach, of course, is to spend endless time helping teenagers "explore" their sexuality and not bother teaching them that there's only one way to avoid pregnancy when you really, really, really don't want it (and it's not abortion).
but given that we aren’t all Those People, it would make a lot more sense to maybe switch it up.

Nothing racist or classist about "Those People," is there?
It always amazes me that people who approach everything else with a supreme reverence for federalism believe that we can talk an entire nation of horny teenagers out of having sex based on what scares Timmy and Tammy Whitebread of Anytown, U.S.A.

What the hell does this mean? One of the logical fallacies so prevalent at Pandagon (and other batshit crazy sites) is this strawman argument that conservatives think no child will have sex if you teach abstinence only. No person on this planet believes abstinence only education can have a 100% success rate. But what morons fail to understand when they reference these discussions is that telling kids they're gonna have sex doesn't do a lot to discourage them from doing it.

This approach is designed to teach children that sex is great...as long as you wear a condom. Forget all that love and marriage and commitment stuff. Just get it on with whoever you feel like today. So, if that includes half the guys in the marching band (or girls, since we want to be inclusive), then that's just dandy. Guilt and standards are for losers.