What's up caffeine addicts,
In our class, we have continued to read more of the Purity myth and something that surprised me was the severe lack in good sex ed courses.
Before reading this book, I never realized how bad it actually was. The fact that people are allowed to spread misinformation to kids who don't know any better is just so unethically stupid. Being that I have never had courses such as these, I never knew they even existed. In high school, I had a pretty good health class that went into detail about all of the different contraceptives and their effectiveness. Because of this, I was completely oblivious of this abstinence only education that is poisoning our school system.
Many of the textbooks that the author was quoting also don't even sound like they should have been published in our "modern society". This just goes to show you that we aren't all that modern at all, misinformation is still widespread because of people like the ones that are perpetuating the virginity movement.
This wave of misinformation that is destroying the minds of our youth is just going to cause the problem these people were trying to solve. If all someone has had is abstinence only education, and they end up "giving in" to sex because it's a natural and pleasurable thing, then they would either be too ashamed to get contraception and protect themselves or they wouldn't even know what forms of contraceptive to get. All this will do is cause more disease and unwanted births.
We need to learn that being oblivious to natural systems of our body will only hurt us in the end.
Stay awesome.
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