The Battle Over Sex Education
While many schools continue to move toward abstinence-only (aka "keep your fingers crossed") sex education, some communities are fighting for more candid and honest curricula. A Maryland school district, for example, just won the right to teach middle and high schoolers about homosexuality and the proper use of condoms.
While many schools continue to move toward abstinence-only (aka “keep your fingers crossed”) sex education, some communities are fighting for more candid and honest curricula. A Maryland school district, for example, just won the right to teach middle and high schoolers about homosexuality and the proper use of condoms.
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In a ruling today, the state board decided that the county legally could move forward with discussions on homosexuality and gender identity in health classes where they have not been addressed except in response to a question from a student.
Two lessons, totaling 90 minutes, will be added to health courses in grades eight and 10 in the fall, along with a 10th-grade lesson and instructional DVD on the correct use of a condom.
The curriculum revisions, while short, place Montgomery in the forefront of a movement toward more candor in teaching about homosexuality in public schools.
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Soon, men may be able to shoulder the burden of contraception without the finality of vasectomy or the muss and fuss of condoms.
Thank the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the gold rush happening in the field of condom research.
An undercover advocate from NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia recorded a conversation with a counselor at a crisis pregnancy center during which she was told, among other outrageous things, that condoms don’t protect against STDs, birth control pills increase the risk of breast cancer, and -- brace yourself -- she would encounter her aborted child’s soul in the future.
Condoms are cheap and effective, but they also diminish sexual pleasure, and that gets in the way of lifesaving.
Women who carry around condoms -- including sex workers who use them to protect themselves from HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases -- are being criminalized in cities across the United States, as police agencies view possession of prophylactics as evidence of prostitution.
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