I Told You It Was All About Sex
What connects all these stories? Femiphobia, obsession with sex, return to the Calvinist Puritan "ethics", the negative effects of same, and the completely wrong-headed way to deal with it. First, A Repub Texas legislator gets a hard-on at a football game:
Legislation Targets Gyrating Cheerleaders
http://www2.cbs5.com/watercooler/watercooler_story_077083913.html
Teen cheerleaders under sex ban
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12610245-13762,00.html
Local Cheerleaders React to Possible Law
http://www.kten.com/article.asp?id=7092
We knew all along that abstinence-only programs do not work and actually make things worse. Now here are some hard data, and various ways media spins them:
Teen Pledges Barely Cut STD Rates, Study Says
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48509-2005Mar18.html
Teenagers who take virginity pledges -- public declarations to abstain from sex -- are almost as likely to be infected with a sexually transmitted disease as those who never made the pledge, an eight-year study released yesterday found.
US ; Bush pushes sexual abstinence for teens despite data:
http://www.keralanext.com/news/indexread.asp?id=156583
Senate Rejects Birth Control and Other Proposals to Reduce the Need for Abortion
http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0318-01.htm
New face of abuse: one in five girls hit by boyfriend
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=622127
Relax, your kids probably aren't having sex
http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkyNDEmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTY2Njg0NjImeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXky
Concerned parents give The Talk about oral sex, too
http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050320/NEWS/503200309/1016/FEATURES07
Child-abuse bill worries critics
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascitystar/news/politics/11181719.htm
Montgomery Parents View Sex-Ed Video
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50244-2005Mar19.html
The media: How is it influencing males?
http://www.examiner-enterprise.com/articles/2005/03/19/lifestyles_and_entertainment/c802.txt
Indecency is in the Air
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0316-30.htm
Abstain From Danger
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_7259.shtml
Pinch Me Films Puts Teenagers’ Reality Back into "Reality Programming"
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/3/prweb217788.htm
Teens, contraception and parental consent
http://news.forum.publicradio.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/07/0932220
The right doesn't just want fewer abortions
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/viewpoints/porter/050306jwp.shtml
