Posted on 10/16/2007 8:13:38 AM PDT by Abathar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_positive
The sex-positive movement does not in general make moral or ethical distinctions between heterosexual or homosexual sex, or indeed masturbation for people who are otherwise celibate, regarding these choices as matters of personal preference. Some sex-positive positions include acceptance of BDSM, polyamory, consensual incest, transsexuality, transgenderism, and other forms of gender transgression in general.
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You have the right to complete and honest sex education. Demand information from your school, healthcare provider and parents.We have a quick and easy online tour through the most important topics for teens who are sexually active now or just thinking about having sex. It's called "Just Say Yes" (en español: "¡Di Que Sí!") because we're tired of people telling us what we can and can't do. There's no preaching. No moralizing. Just the facts.
http://www.positive.org/Resources/internet.html
And on Amazon.com:
Playbook for Kids About Sex (Paperback)
by Joani Blank, Marcia Quackenbush (Illustrator)customer review:
Children's sexuality is a part of the human experience which in today's world we mostly encounter in negative, semi-paranoid terms. This book, a veritable Playbook in all true senses of the word, is an agent of consciousness, helping to usher in the coming age of a sensuous tenderness, of an understanding of sexual pleasure without guilt, of a joyous sharing of delight without cruelty, bigotry, exploitation, discrimination; it's a "hands-on!" guide to exploration and a companion to pleasure, Humanity's birthright.
The children of the world are the ones who will actualize this birthright to a Natural sensuality in their own lives, within their own experiences as children now, and as adults in the near future. The Playbook is an aid, a guide, a friend who will help bring about a world in which it will be unknown, weird - pathological! - to deprive any person of their enjoynment of sexual pleasure, or to exploit another's needs and desires, or worse, to sexually impose one's self on another being.
Without mentioning any theory, the Playbook draws on the brilliant and insightful work of Dr. Wilhelm Reich, ("Children of the Future"; "The Sexual Revolution"). Without going into political sloganeering, the Playbook is an embodiment of straightforward Feminist perceptions of power, gender, race and sexuality. Without getting legalistic, or falling into any clinical, pseudo-scientific argumentations, the Playbook takes the victories of the Gay Rights Movement into a whole new sphere: it helps the future adult's sense of reality be formed by assuming right from the start that it's Natural to have a freedom of choice in sexual identity.
Condoms in school wasn't about disease, it was about forever winning the argument over IF children should be having sex and shifting it to WHEN...
Here little Johnny take these drugs...
Just say no little Johnny...
Do as I say little Johnny...
Indoctrination is working just like the socialists/liberals have planned.
Is it a good idea to give birth control pills (which affect hormonal bio-chemistry) to girls who are JUST BEGINNING hormonal changes?
It can’t be healthy.
Schools prohibit steroid use by teens because of health risks. How is this different?
Oh wait, the greater agenda at work. Nevermind.
This is the only middle school in the district that has a health center, presumably because of the high proportion of “free lunch” students, whose parents aren’t providing much of anything for them. Even prior to this new range of services being offered, barely a quarter of the school’s students were enrolled in the health center. Probably there’s a separate school nurse, comparable to what the schools with no health centers have, who can dispense things like Tylenol and medications that have been prescribed by an outside doctor. Either that, or even before the BC offering, three quarters of the parents didn’t want their kids to be able to get a Tylenol or be given their prescription medications at school.
It’s healthier than getting pregnant.
(1)High doses of birth control pills are used to control extreme growth rate (height) in girls.
(2)Early pregnancy stops any growth (height) the teenage girl might have had.
(3)The hormones in the pill make the body believe it is pregnant, and therefore no longer ovulate.
Sounds good. A whole generation of skanky short girls with STDs.
1) pregnancy is normal.
2) inhibiting the course of puberty is not.
I fail to see how 2 is healthier than 1.
Don’t worry, when they want to have a family later in life they will go on fertility treatments and pop out twins to octuplets.
Nope, they'll conceive 8 little babies, then "cull" the ones they don't want.
This is called "reproductive choice". God will judge this nation.
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They will give them birth control to control pregnancy, HPV vaccine to control cervical cancer, penicillin to control all the bugs, Ritalin to control the distractions that are the result of their promiscuity, and anti-depressants later in life to control the consequences. That is...if they don’t choose to self medicate in which case they will provide taxpayer funded rehab. -The perfect liberal perscription.
“It’s healthier than getting pregnant.”
Life on this planet will never be perfect, and this is true regardless of your religion (or lack thereof). People who want middle school kids to take birth control pills want life to become more perfect. They want to solve the problems of the poor. Frequently, however, their “solutions” only produce further problems. I read in “Newsweek” that in the 1950s, African-American women were actually more likely to marry than Caucasian women, but that was before the problems of the poor were “solved” by well-meaning social engineers beginning in the 1960s.
Birth control pills are not the panacea they were once considered to be. They can have negative health effects.
Middle school girls will continue to become pregnant in large numbers as long as the culture has no taboos against sex outside of marriage. Pills will not solve this.
“...I tried once to tell some moms...They just did not believe me. It is sad that the schools have so much power, and the parents are sooo clueless.”
BEEN THERE! DONE THAT! I don’t know which is more frustrating for me when I am trying to inform others, the “deer in the headlights” look I get or the “you are crazy” look. No, I think its the non-responders that are the worst!
This is nonsense. What these kids need is not a contraceptive. What they need is to be told --- by their parents, but also by the school officials who are acting in loco parentis--- that they must not have sexual intercourse at their age --- and the many reasons why.
Signing your kid up to use the health services appropriate for children (counseling on diet and exercise, treatment for a turned ankle, tylenol for menstrual cramps, whatever) should not entail automatic permission for interventions which are NOT appropriate for children.
What are we talking about here? Young human beings, aren't we? And not young monkeys, dogs, or bugs?
Children this young do not have the physical, mental, or emotional maturity to consent to sex. If they are engaging in sexual relations they are victims of a crime: either the crime of statutory rape by older persons who heartlessly exploit them, or the crime of being left sexually feral by their own parents.
Meanwhile, Dr. Miriam Grossman, UCLA phychiatrist, says that there is a promiscuity-depression-suicide link which is being ignored by the medical profession because they don't want to criticize sexual behavior. They'll tell kids right out that they shouldn't eat trans-fats or smoke cigarettes or use tanning beds, but they won't tell a 13 year old girl that she's too valuable to throw her heart and her body away on junk sex.
These so-called adults should be arraigned on charges of corrupting the morals of a minor.
Where are the adults in this picture? Absolutely afraid to act like adults. Absolutely afraid to level with the kids and say "Sexual intercourse is a constitutent part of being married and making a family. It is for adults. At your age, it will only hurt you. It is not for you."
And mark my words: 12-year-old girls are not doin' a Romeo-and-Juliet with 12-year-old boys. They're being used by older teens and adult men. This whole situation stinks of statutory rape.
Of course, prescriptions, abortions, pregnancies, counseling, and therapy all cost money and keeping young teens screwed up is good for business.
It would be better to instill in the girls a sense of self-worth rather than giving themselves up sexually to become popular or feel “loved”. There is no such thing as free love. You’ll just end up feeling used in the end.
And conditioning them to take daily pill supplements opens the bottle for other drugs, whether they are prescribed antidepressants or the street variety of dope and alcohol to “make the pain go away”.
There is only one solution that truly works. Take your kids out of government schools. My wife and I did and as a result have two grown well adjusted daughters, both of whom are vested with good judgment and have never exhibited any of the list of typical teenage problems our friends and fellow church members that relied on government schools have seemingly all had to deal with. Our first daughter recently married her childhood sweetheart who is a wonderful Christian man.
It is not easy, however it somehow gets easier when you fully come to terms with the reality that as parent your kids are your first priority...and not adherence to some implied vague obligation you should support a social or civic compact long which in this culture that long ago turned irrelevant if not harmful.
Where are the adults in this picture? Absolutely afraid to act like adults. Absolutely afraid to level with the kids and say "Sexual intercourse is a constitutent part of being married and making a family. It is for adults. At your age, it will only hurt you. It is not for you."
And mark my words: 12-year-old girls are not doin' a Romeo-and-Juliet with 12-year-old boys. They're being used by older teens and adult men. This whole situation stinks of statutory rape.
Pregnancy in a middle schooler is only “normal” in the animal sense, just as bleeding to death during delivery or dying of infection shortly after delivery is “normal”. If one let’s nature take its course in these matters, one can describe the process and outcomes as “normal”, however, they are not consistent with civilization.
More dumb.
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