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Put the Sex Back in Sex Ed
TIME ^ | March 13, 2014 7:02 AM ET | Camille Paglia

Posted on 03/13/2014 8:17:33 PM PDT by thecodont

Fertility is the missing chapter in sex education. Sobering facts about women’s declining fertility after their 20s are being withheld from ambitious young women, who are propelled along a career track devised for men.

The refusal by public schools’ sex-education programs to acknowledge gender differences is betraying both boys and girls. The genders should be separated for sex counseling. It is absurd to avoid the harsh reality that boys have less to lose from casual serial sex than do girls, who risk pregnancy and whose future fertility can be compromised by disease. Boys need lessons in basic ethics and moral reasoning about sex (for example, not taking advantage of intoxicated dates), while girls must learn to distinguish sexual compliance from popularity.

Above all, girls need life-planning advice. Too often, sex education defines pregnancy as a pathology, for which the cure is abortion. Adolescent girls must think deeply about their ultimate aims and desires. If they want both children and a career, they should decide whether to have children early or late. There are pros, cons and trade-offs for each choice.

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TOPICS: Education; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: academicbias; antiabstinence; breeders; camillepaglia; freelove; homosexualagenda; moralabsolutes; morals; naughtyteacherslist; plannedparenthood; promiscuity; sexeducation; sexpositiveagenda; siecus; teensex
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1 posted on 03/13/2014 8:17:33 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: thecodont

I remember at the end of my first day in “Health” class, the teacher asked if there were any questions. One of the other guys put his hand up and asked, “Is there any homework?”


2 posted on 03/13/2014 8:19:11 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: thecodont
Camille Paglia????

Is that man-loathing ASSHOLE still alive?
She is ... I can't find the words to describe her NEGATIVELY enough. Imagine, ME, unable to express...

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Ah!! I have it: ASSHOLE.
Oh, I already said that. Well, I MEAN it.

3 posted on 03/13/2014 8:28:20 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: cloudmountain

She’s probably one of the most important conservative resources we have against contemporary pathological feminism.


4 posted on 03/13/2014 8:31:52 PM PDT by lonestar67 (I remember when unemployment was 4.7 percent)
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To: cloudmountain
Camille Paglia???? Is that man-loathing ******* still alive?

Working up a to-do list for confessional this Sunday, are we?

5 posted on 03/13/2014 8:35:33 PM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: thecodont

Gee, isn’t Camille supposed to be a hard-core liberal and feminist?


6 posted on 03/13/2014 8:35:46 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: lonestar67
She’s probably one of the most important conservative resources we have against contemporary pathological feminism.

Yet, if you look her up you'll read how much she DEPRECATED modern feminism BUT had NO alternative to offer. She denigrates, nothing else.

Truth be known, she had VERY little that was good to say about ANYONE or ANYTHING.

She's been so silent for so long I thought she might have died. NO ONE invites her on shows anymore...NO ONE. Lol. She did herself in. How fitting.

7 posted on 03/13/2014 8:38:02 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: Mariner

She is HARD CORE period.


8 posted on 03/13/2014 8:38:58 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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As long as Eddy Eagle teaches it......


9 posted on 03/13/2014 8:42:44 PM PDT by S.O.S121.500 (Had Enough Yet ? ........................ Enforce the Bill of Rights ......... It's the LAW !!!)
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To: thecodont
As a practical matter, sex is a powerful glue which attaches a man to a woman and vice versa. Object: love, affection, children, family.

The more a person uses it for purposes other than said attachment, the more it loses its adherent quality.

And the more that person loses the mechanism to which he can connect with others (not just including but, in particular, God), the more he is cut off from the most important aspect of his being.

The aspect in question is the soul.

10 posted on 03/13/2014 8:47:42 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
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To: cloudmountain

She dropped you from her Christmas Card list, didn’t she ?


11 posted on 03/13/2014 9:05:35 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: cloudmountain
I can't find the words to describe her NEGATIVELY enough.

Sounds personal.

12 posted on 03/13/2014 9:06:06 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: thecodont

Paglia, as usual, knocks it out of the park!

She is brilliant, and the only feminist who truly advocates for all women, not just liberal womyn.


13 posted on 03/13/2014 9:12:18 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: cloudmountain

She actually writes some of the most important works affirming masculinity.

She is not a conventional intellectual deconstructionist.


14 posted on 03/13/2014 9:29:10 PM PDT by lonestar67 (I remember when unemployment was 4.7 percent)
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To: cloudmountain

She is excellent on some issues (anyone can be “right” part of the time.)

I totally disagree with her obsession with pornography—which just reduces humans to animals. But then, being a Lesbian-—she has to be Godless, anyhow, and be irrational to a point. But she does hit the nail on the head sometimes. She admits to being abnormal, though......unlike most Leftists who think they are gods and perfect.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303997604579240022857012920


15 posted on 03/13/2014 11:47:03 PM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: thecodont; GeronL; Morgana; Revolting cat!
Fertility is the missing chapter in sex education.

Didn't Time-Lies Media get the memo?

Fertility is dead.

With 57 varieties of sexual identity to cover in school, "breeders" are but a slim minority of heterosexual relations (out of all omnisexual perversions).

Sex ed isn't about basic biology, procreation, and proper hygiene anymore.

Safe fisting, outercourse, dental dams, proper sex toy cleaning, safe words, rape fantasy, furry animal fantasy, etc. all get their due attention. Having babies is merely punishment on somebody's good time.

16 posted on 03/14/2014 1:01:21 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The Texas judge's decision was to pave the way for same sex divorce for two Massachusetts women.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Bump


17 posted on 03/14/2014 1:03:24 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: lonestar67

I don’t think she is a conservative in the normal sense


18 posted on 03/14/2014 1:08:47 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: cloudmountain

Paglia’s been publishing books on poetry and film and art - where have YOU been?

She’s very strong on the importance of men in this society.


19 posted on 03/14/2014 4:55:25 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Talisker
Sounds personal.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

20 posted on 03/14/2014 5:43:50 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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