Via Raw Story, we get a couple of insights into the consequences of the Conservative view of sexuality (namely that it is evil and should be suppressed):
Yet more arguments as to why "asbtinence education" doesn't work. (It doesn't, and I've commented on the obvious reasons for that before).
Recent legislation in S. Dakota has placed a chill on sexual expression throughout much of the midwest and southern United States it seems, with several states proposing legislation similar to S. Dakota's anti-abortion laws.
Next on the list of targets by the conservatives appears to be sex toys: Bill Would Ban Sex Toy Sales in S.C.. Yes, several states have had bans on sex toys for years, but 5 years in prison and $10,000 in fines as punishment?! When has a vibrator hurt anybody?
Wouldn't legislators be better off trying to think up a way to better regulate the guns that are so prevalent?
2 comments:
It is interesting to note that the United States, the home of "abstenence only" sex education (if you get any sex education at all) has a rate of teenage pregnancy 10 times that of the rest of the western world.
The country with comprehensive sex education from grade 1 on is Sweden. It also has the lowest rate of teenage pregnancy as well as the latest age of first act.
To push abstinence only is to punish people for having sex.
JN
www.nishiyama.tzo.com
Wouldn't you think less teenage pregnancy might equal fewer abortions? And statistics show abstinence only works if one practices it.
A BAN on SEX toys? That's ludicrous. Maybe it will start happening here too.
Better stock up!
I might blog about that one!
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