tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post7736714166265357373..comments2023-12-14T18:17:52.957-08:00Comments on The Train Wreck Love Life: put on your brake lights, you're in the city of wonderEmilly Orrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245643246821826101noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-30237004710300404262010-08-16T20:24:13.886-07:002010-08-16T20:24:13.886-07:00Oh, you're not wrong; in fact, at one point I ...Oh, you're not wrong; in fact, at one point I told my mother I was older than she was. :)<br /><br />But see, I didn't specifically say horny and frustrated. I would say--outside of large metropolitan centers, like DC--it's still mostly scraps of education off the internet and rumors passed student to student. Maybe things have changed in big cities; in smaller ones promise rings are still the big thing, and the 'wisdom' that says oral sex means you still haven't <i>had</i> sex (hence, the concurrent rise of STDs in the under-25 set).Emilly Orrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07245643246821826101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-85730420980087106472010-08-16T19:00:09.150-07:002010-08-16T19:00:09.150-07:00Fair enough. But we're old, Miss Orr. (Don'...Fair enough. But we're old, Miss Orr. (Don't deny it. You know far too much to be a spry youngster, and I distinctly recall reading something about a 20th anniversary!) If you said <i>our</i> generation is horny and frustrated, well...<br /><br />But the youngsters who will be joining us...okay, they're horny and frustrated, but not because they didn't get a good dose of how to go about the process. :)Rhianon Jamesonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13627163137265856251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-11749240674545455262010-08-16T17:24:38.569-07:002010-08-16T17:24:38.569-07:00Depends on where you live. The South, large sectio...Depends on where you live. The South, large sections of Central, the entire midwest...where I went to high school? When our health teacher got pregnant--married, to a church pastor, heavily Christian--she was deemed unfit to teach in "her condition" because it might give us "the wrong idea".<br /><br />The wrong idea. That having a kid in a stable Christian family is a <i>bad</i> thing?<br /><br />We also weren't allowed to wear shorts or short skirts in the summer, because it might "cause prurient thoughts" on the part of other students who saw us.<br /><br />Or let's fast forward to more recent things--in Spokane, Washington, more teen girls get pregnant, on average, in Spokane than in Washington as a whole (1,788 pregnancies in the class range in 2008 alone (see <a href="http://www.srhd.org/documents/PublicHealthData/SexInTheCounty.pdf" rel="nofollow">the PDF from the Spokane Regional Health District</a>). And it is a bitter, bitter fight every year between the parents' activist groups and the educational board over what gets taught to kids on sex at <i>all</i>.<br /><br />(In fact, the <a href="http://www.teen-aid.org/" rel="nofollow">Teen-Aid</a> movement, a church-based abstinence-until-marriage group? Started in Spokane, and is largely pushed as the "only alternative" to leading a life that results in prostitution and drug use; aka "it's either keep your legs closed, or you're a slattern on the streets" thinking.)Emilly Orrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07245643246821826101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-18174926967986795842010-08-16T17:12:24.949-07:002010-08-16T17:12:24.949-07:00"Decades of abstinence-only teaching"? T..."Decades of abstinence-only teaching"? There really are two Americas! I'm living in the one that teaches grade-schoolers about proper condom use and, occasionally, makes condoms available to the tykes. The one with cheery lessons about masturbation. In DC high schools, there was a recent flap about the free condoms: apparently Durex is considered a subpar brand, and the kids held out for Trojans.<br /><br />Outside of some religious schools, I'm not sure where to find abstinence-only education. The Bush administration pushed it, certainly, but even had that had a 100% penetration rate (apologies for the bad pun), W only lasted two terms. No, if there are oversexed teens rarin' to have at middle-aged ladies, it's not thanks to lack of detail in sex-ed classes!Rhianon Jamesonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13627163137265856251noreply@blogger.com