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Showing posts with label Abstinence Only Education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abstinence Only Education. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Video: Walt Disney Presents: 'The Story Of Menstruation'

Yes, the same Disney that makes 'The Little Mermaid' and 'Tangled' today.  In 1946, they produced a 10 minute animated short, that explained what happened to a young woman's body, every 28 days or so.  For 65 years old, the information is surprisingly practical and informative.



Who would have thought that our grandmothers were given more of a comprehensive education about puberty than our own daughters, 65 years later.  Today, schools focus so much attention on "abstinence only education", that menstruation is rarely, if at all, discussed.

As a result, young women are often wondering why they're bleeding "down there", while, at the same time doing anal, so that they don't violate the terms of their "purity rings".

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Birth Control Lessons Withheld From Sex Ed Classes

A new study released today by the CDC finds that as many as one third of students do not receive birth control information during sex education classes.  While 97 percent of high school students have received some form of formal sex education class, 62 percent of boys and 70 percent of girls report being taught about condoms and other forms of birth control.  Interestingly, 92 percent of students were taught about STDs, and 87 percent of boys and 81 percent of girls were taught how to say no or abstain from sex.

The study found the main reason for this misinformation was because the Bush Administration had a thing for funding religious based, abstinence only programs to educate our children.  These programs have been proven to be ineffective at best.  Since the Obama Administration has been in place, funds have been redirected toward programs that teach both abstinence and how to use birth control.   

Studies show that after years of steady declines, the birth rate among teens rose between 2005 and 2007, only to dip in 2008, after new comprehensive based sex education programs came into existence.