No Sex Teenagers! Tennessee Abstinence Education Returns

The Republican controlled Senate in Tennessee has this week passed legislation that will return abstinence education into the classroom. No sex teenagers! That's the new lesson that teachers will be mandated to present to those highly curious young people attending government schools.

Yet even more controversial has been that the bill will bring in guidelines for sex education to teach young gay and lesbians that they should never have sex, and that means never! Presumably unless they repress their sexual desires to form a heterosexual relationship, and of course after they marry.

For those who doubt the horrors of young people having sex the bill also highlights the social dangers of intimacy.
Teachers will be required to:
“Discuss the interrelationship between teen sexual activity and exposure to other risk behaviors such as smoking, underage drinking, drug use, criminal activity, dating violence, and sexual aggression;” is included in the preamble to the bill.

The motivation behind the bill has been to combat teenage pregnancy, but the trouble is that the empirical evidence indicates that US states which run abstinence programs actually have higher rates of unplanned pregnancies.

 

One Small Step For Tennessee.....

One Big Step "Backwards" For Mankind...



Cheers Glen.

 

Um what?

Do you have any links supporting this?

 

NASHVILLE (AP) - A measure that would require "family life education" curricula taught in schools to be abstinence-centered has passed the Senate.
The measure sponsored by Republican Sen. Jack Johnson of Franklin was approved 28-1 on Thursday. The companion bill is awaiting a vote in the House Education Committee.
The legislation has become an alternative to a proposal that seeks to ban the teaching of gay issues to elementary and middle school students.

http://www.johnsoncitypress.com/News/article.php?id=99468

From our column: Only in America

 

thanks for that.


Now on the issue thats fucked up!

 

*facepalm*

 

Barbaric. Whoever thought this up should be held for child abuse.

 

The not so grand, certainly old party is doing its best to move the U.S. back through time.

 

I don't know about you guys. But the uncensored part of my mind is floating the notion to go and try to get laid in the state of Tennessee just to prove how ineffective there new, or rather old, kind of sex education policy is.

It will only cause a swarm of naive youth to manipulate and trick into bed.

Luckily, the good side of me has won and has decided not to pursue this, but it's still a funny notion in my head.

 

only 1/2 those hillbillies go to school anyways. probably less than 1/2. Im giving those rednecks to much credit really..

 

Barbaric is right - even criminal - what blinkered nuts are trying to holod back nature.

a bit like Canute trying to stop the tide! my condolences to all you gay, bi and trans people as well as all you hot hetero teens.

PROTEST - PROTEST

maybe a whole group of you should have a public naked love-in; you'd need maybe a few hundred and then they would not be able to deal with it!

Good luck in getting rid of such moronic, stupid legislation

Simon :sunny:

 

I can imagine some teen girl there rushing into her mother "OMG mom! Guess what???!!!...I'm abstinent!"

:groupwave:



Do they actually believe it will be effective? Lol.

 

Does the "empirical evidence" indicate which came first -- the programs or the unplanned pregnancies? Is one the result of the other?

And, did anyone actually find out more about this program before making the lame-assed comments condemning the state's efforts to correct a growing problem that is a definite burden to all of us.

What should we be doing, teaching our 13-year olds how to give the best blowjobs, how to "provide her with an explosive orgasm", demonstrating the joys of anal sex. It seems some of you are probably way ahead of the curve in that respect.

 

Here in the UK the age of consent is 16, but there are currently proposals at the other end of the spectrum to make it possible for girls as young as 13 to get the contraceptive pill over the counter without the need to see a GP.

I understand the intent behind the proposal of it stopping unwanted pregnancies, but condoms are far more practical for that, as well as preventing STDs. Furthermore, there's already no age limit on their purchase - or they can be provided free of charge at the local clinic / GP surgery.

 

lol Teenagers are teenagers..they WILL fuck...but NOT telll...wtf

 

Tell teenagers not to do something...
Man... so stupid and naive...
Who makes these rules?