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>TIME a right wing Mag?  That one is news to me.

I learned in my HS political science course that it ALWAYS backed repubs! Steve – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->>Interesting article in TIME:

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That hasn’t been my observation over the years. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->TIME a right wing Mag?  That one is news to me. > I learned in my HS political science course that it ALWAYS backed repubs! > Steve >>>Interesting article in TIME:

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>That hasn’t been my observation over the years.

Maybe your Leftism is my Rightism!! Steve – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->>TIME a right wing Mag?  That one is news to me. > I learned in my HS political science course that it ALWAYS backed repubs! > Steve >>>>Interesting article in TIME:

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> Interesting article in TIME: > Sunday, Sep. 29, 2002 > The slide show was chilling: a cervix with precancerous lesions, > shriveled fallopian tubes. But what made Seth Claude and his friends > really blanch was a penis covered in sores and distended like an autumn > gourd. "Before, I just thought if you got genital warts, maybe you had > one or two, but then I saw the person with a bajillion of them and was, > like, ‘Whoa,’" says Seth, 13. "(The pictures) are enough to make you > have nightmares." [snip] > Apparently these programs are making inroads.  Comments?

I have found that it’s easier to leave my daughter’s school to teaching her reading, writing and ‘rithmatic as it were.  Even that’s "iffy".  But when it comes to sex education….the schools are sadly lacking and you’re going to have your children learning what *other* people want them to know.  For instance, I think that one of the best things is to expose and explain masturbation to kids.  I mean, you can’t get pregnant, you can’t get anything you don’t already have, you don’t have to worry about whether or not you’re going to call or respect yourself in the morning, etc.  But Joycely Elders proposes merely mentioning it to school children and she’s kicked out of the "in" crowd that decides what children should and shouldn’t know. I’d just as soon not bother to argue with the thick skulls and teach my daughter myself =) Cara

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Actually, no I didn’t.  That kind of stuff (gross out pictures) wasn’t my cup of tea.  I especially used to hate the gross driver’s ed stuff. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > Teen kids love to view gruesome medical photos. > Didn’t you have a similar fascination with medical anamolies as a child? > It certainly engages their interest.

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> parents are surprisingly ‘liberal’ about what they want their kids to know > — it is a relative minority who howls about sensible teaching about sex > — I remember a snooty private college that was thinking of providing > condoms in the dorms [as many many colleges do] so they would be readily > available without embarrassment [e.g. machines in the bathrooms]  They > were very worried that their board would object — the board – most of > whom are parents themselves — didn’t bat an eyelash — they are not > stupid enough to think that young adults will be abstinent and they are > aware that condoms not only prevent pregnancy but are very effective > against AIDS transmission —

Not allowing a condom machine in a college is pretty stupid, I’ll grant you that! – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text –

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TIME a right wing Mag?  That one is news to me. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->Interesting article in TIME:

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Sounds like good advice to me. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->Interesting article in TIME: >Sunday, Sep. 29, 2002 >The slide show was chilling: a cervix with precancerous lesions, >shriveled fallopian tubes. But what made Seth Claude and his friends >really blanch was a penis covered in sores and distended like an autumn >gourd. "Before, I just thought if you got genital warts, maybe you had >one or two, but then I saw the person with a bajillion of them and was, >like, ‘Whoa,’" says Seth, 13. "(The pictures) are enough to make you >have nightmares." > [snip] >Apparently these programs are making inroads.  Comments? > I have found that it’s easier to leave my daughter’s school to teaching her > reading, writing and ‘rithmatic as it were.  Even that’s "iffy".  But when > it comes to sex education….the schools are sadly lacking and you’re going > to have your children learning what *other* people want them to know.  For > instance, I think that one of the best things is to expose and explain > masturbation to kids.  I mean, you can’t get pregnant, you can’t get > anything you don’t already have, you don’t have to worry about whether or > not you’re going to call or respect yourself in the morning, etc.  But > Joycely Elders proposes merely mentioning it to school children and she’s > kicked out of the "in" crowd that decides what children should and shouldn’t > know. > I’d just as soon not bother to argue with the thick skulls and teach my > daughter myself =) > Cara

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Teen kids love to view gruesome medical photos. Didn’t you have a similar fascination with medical anamolies as a child? It certainly engages their interest.

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>Teen kids love to view gruesome medical photos. >Didn’t you have a similar fascination with medical anamolies as a child? >It certainly engages their interest.

Gruesome med photos, porn, it’s all the same thing to little kids, they need to come to grips with the realities of life in their worst or most unknown form in order to test themselves against them and find that they can cope, and thus feel secure in the world because they know the worst it can do to them. That’s what the whole 8-year-old gross-out phase is about! Steve

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – >Yeah, they went overboard on that, didn’t they? >>Interesting article in TIME: > LOL  what is the odds that kids introduced to sex this way will grow up to > have healthy loving sex lives — sex as grotesque disease — good idea >Yeah, they went overboard on that, didn’t they?  However I can remember >teachers doing this same thing when I was a teen, and it sure didn’t >stop me from having a healthy sex life! >I am used to seeing articles like this on the pro family sites but not >many in TIME.  It will be interesting to see the statistics when these >programs are tried long enough.

They already WERE tried for "long enough", ABOUT THREE *TIMES* so far, the PROBLEM is that each new batch of parents are stupid so the religious bigots try to take THEM in TOO, EACH SEPARATE GROUP OF THEM!! There are SO MANY studies that show this shit doesn’t work that NOW the fucking bigots are USING the failures of the LAST round to try to prove that their ENEMIES were responsible for THAT, merely by LYING OUTRIGHT about it to confuse you! Steve

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Yeah, they went overboard on that, didn’t they? >Interesting article in TIME: > LOL  what is the odds that kids introduced to sex this way will grow up to > have healthy loving sex lives — sex as grotesque disease — good idea

Yeah, they went overboard on that, didn’t they?  However I can remember teachers doing this same thing when I was a teen, and it sure didn’t stop me from having a healthy sex life! I am used to seeing articles like this on the pro family sites but not many in TIME.  It will be interesting to see the statistics when these programs are tried long enough. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text –

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>Interesting article in TIME: >Sunday, Sep. 29, 2002 >The slide show was chilling: a cervix with precancerous lesions, >shriveled fallopian tubes. But what made Seth Claude and his friends >really blanch was a penis covered in sores and distended like an autumn >gourd. "Before, I just thought if you got genital warts, maybe you had >one or two, but then I saw the person with a bajillion of them and was, >like, ‘Whoa,’" says Seth, 13. "(The pictures) are enough to make you >have nightmares."

Only a Rightist slanted outfit like Time could get sucked in to doing bigots work for them by publishing this lying piece of trash!! >But will they keep him from having sex? The images form the backbone of >Worth the Wait, a sex-education curriculum taught at Seth’s school, >Caldwell Middle School in Caldwell, Texas, and in 31 districts across >the state. Written by Dr. Patricia Sulak, an obstetrician-gynecologist >and professor at Texas A&M University’s College of Medicine, the lessons >set forth the clinical consequences of teen sex in pictures and >eye-popping statistics charting the numbers of young people infected >with sexually transmitted diseases. The take-home message: abstain from >intercourse or put yourself at grave medical risk.

Texas is one of the extremely rightist sexually backward "Taliban" states which have elected to renew their press for abstinence-ONLY sex education that has already been PROVEN as useless, and the CAUSE of most rotting cervices and festering sores on genitals in that VERY backward religiously bigoted state and the others like it! >A bitter battle over sex ed has long raged in this country

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