A Brave New Sexual World

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A Brave New Sexual World
By: Blue Rose

"And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue-liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny."
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Ch. 1

A foolish man would argue that, in recent times, there hasn't been a focus on more "in-depth" sexual education. And, according to information from the Guttmacher institute, pregnancies among teens, after a decline in the 90's, has slowly been on a rise that will reach a plateau in the United States in the next couple of years.

So why? Why is comprehensive sex education not acting to decline the rate of teen pregnancies among Americans?

When I was 14, our science teacher decided to being class one day with an experiment. We walked outside, and found, on the ground, 2 liter bottles and a few chemicals. Without getting into the technical information about the idea, the idea was that, by virtue of mixing a few chemicals together, we would create hydrogen in the 2 liter bottle.

Well we began to pour the chemicals in the bottles until they slowly filled with a murky, greyish cloud. When we had all finished, our teacher told us to line up our bottles facing an open field, and did something that surprised the teen hormones out of me.

She crouched down to the first bottle, which was hers, unscrewed the cap, and held a lighter up to the opening. What happened subsequently was the hydrogen caught flame, and blasted the projectile two-liter bottle like a missile.*

Now, I would like to say, after watching the rest of the bottles soar off, that I used this information a she intended; to learn about how volatile chemicals are, and use this in my science class to better understand concepts....but I was a 14-year-old boy, and I don't think I need to explain what I did with this information, but let's just say there are many Barbie dolls who have something VERY in-common with the Challenger crew.**

It was information much too powerful for me to NOT abuse as an adolescent. And it's for this very same reason kids can't learn the graphic, detailed level of sex we expose them to, without exposing themselves to danger.

Now, I don't think I need to re-express how I know what you're thinking: Rose, Rose, Rose, today's youth are different. They're responsible, older, and more mature. Plus, it's not like we're SHOWING them how to have sex, that would be crazy!

Well meet Planned Parenthood!


In their book "It's Perfectly Normal", Planned Parenthood includes graphic cartoons of teens having sex. Given the level of snickering me and my fellow classmates did at our much, much, MUCH more scaled down sex. ed. pamphlet, I can only imagine what today's teen do with this piece of literature, but luckily, I don't have to:

because they market it to ten-year-olds.

That's right, "It's Perfectly Normal" isn't actually for teens, Planned Parenthood gives it out as part of their curriculum for pre-teens, even 10-year-olds, giving them a detailed image of how to have sex with each other.

"Concerned Citizens of South Texas" has dedicated several studies to Planned Parenthood's methods in their area, and some of the information is staggering.

Just in case there are any of you who don't think 10 is too young to be seeing graphic pictures of sex, Planned Parenthood went ahead and starting their program in kindergarten.

The "Outercourse" program by Planned Parenthood begins as early as kindergarten (4 and 5-year-olds), and details non-vaginal sex like anal, oral, and even cyber sexual activities as viable means to prevent pregnancy.

Planned Parenthood's promotion of "Technical Virginity" starts a slippery slope for teens who aren't mature enough to take so much information about sex, and not abuse it. It even promotes "Phone Sex" as a great way to help teens from not going "all the way". Not only is this condoned perversion, but it is a criminal offense in many cases. Sending inappropriate pictures, or "sexting" is actually a criminal offense when either of the two parties sending media is a minor, as it is distribution of child pornography.

Planned Parenthood, and programs of the like, were started under the belief that comprehensive sex education would be more effective at preventing teen pregnancy. Yet, as the years role on, more and more teens are becoming pregnant.

So what, is there no hope? Are we all doomed to be pregnant, disease ridden teens?

Well, in her article "Proof That Abstinence Education Does Work" Jane Olson details how abstinence education in the 2000s actually helped teens both prevent pregnancy, and excell academically.

To be fair, Planned Parenthood does address abstinence education in an article called "What Are Abstinence-Only Programs and Why Don't They Work?" and their answer to why these programs don't work was really good.....oh, wait, they didn't actually list one.

Whether you believe in abstinence or not, its education is clearly more effective. Teens are going to have sex, it will happen, but if we don't focus, especially at a young age, on teaching kids the benefits of abstinence, they're going to have more and more sex, until they slip-up, and make a devistating decision.

Teens are not responsible enough to handle birth control correctly, in most cases. This is why, despite more effective contraception, more readily available contraception, and even easier to use contraception, teens are being impregnated at a higher and higher rate.

Reminding you to always find your voice,

- Blue Rose

P.S. before you flood the comment section with what I can only predict will be either "your mom" jokes, or comments about rumors of my own sexual behavior, this isn't about either of those things. It's about sweeping reform in the world of sexual education, not any one person's history or past.

*not so much like a missile, as actually a hydrogen missile.
** too soon?