Fear of Fucking

Cat asked me once: "If you had a daughter, what beliefs would you want to instill in her?". I responded: "I would want her to think she was cool". My reasoning was that if a young girl believes that she is cool as she is, she is likely to have a healthier self image, more self esteem, and be more confident during the gauntlet of high school than her peers. She would be less subject to peer pressure, more sure of her academic abilities, and wouldn't feel the need to engage in sexual activities before she was ready to prove her worth. This last part came to mind earlier while I was browsing my favorite feminist news site and came across a link to the article located HERE. It's another ridiculous tale of wigged out parents, sex ed curriculum, and the hymens they think are endangered by truth. Parents in Schenectady (X-B-Aladocious), NY have beef with the school district because sex education taught to seventh and eighth graders relies on materials developed by Planned Parenthood. The instructor was never permitted to discuss abortion or abortion rights, so that is not the issue here. Instead, the problem that these dipshit caretakers have with the curriculum is the suggestion that "masturbation is a source of pleasure." An equally dipshit-esque doctor, Michael Rochet, warned that the suggestion would facilitate curiosity among students & would lead to more sexual activity. This particular county in New York has the state's second highest teen pregnancy rate and I'll bet it has more than a little bit to do with the fucked up approach of parents & educators to sexual matters. First off, masturbation is a source of pleasure and by 7th or 8th grade most of these kids already figured that out. Second, a sex ed course is supposed to educate the class about sex, not force feed them a bunch of moralistic bullshit, so that the teens will have the tools to approach sex (or not approach sex) with accurate information. Censoring subjects that the teens are already up on game about will only give them reason to doubt the accuracy of the rest of the shit they're taught & that won't help reduce the pregnancy rate, now would it? Instead of trusting in what they learn from the instructor, they will turn to the "wisdom" of peers & we all know how much bullshit boys tell girls in order to get in their pants ("You won't get pregnant if you jump up & down afterwards!", "You can't get pregnant in a pool!", or the ever popular "...if I pull out" line). Third, wouldn't casting masturbation in a favorable light be advantageous to the goal of reducing teen pregnancy? After all, if your "going it alone" there is no chance of becoming knocked up. This relates to my theory of child-rearing mentioned above because if these parents & that moronic doctor understood the motivations of many sexually active teens, the sex ed curriculum wouldn't be the villain here. Many teens have sex before they are ready to because they are looking for acceptance or approval during the time that their self esteem's are in the toilet. If a youngster has faith in their coolness, if they believe they are loved and they are worth something regardless of what their peers say or do to them, they aren't going to need the approval or acceptance of a would-be statutory rapist. When you pair that with an accurate dose of sex ed, you are more likely to have teenagers that abstain from sex until they are ready to get down like mature folks. And that's real talk!