Coelestinus

bebinn:

keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:

http://www.thenation.com/blog/162525/dont-have-sex-you-will-get-pregnant-and-die

Have you seen this?  My god, our country sucks.  How could we fail to educate our kids like this? 

“Don’t eat the candy!” warned the teacher, although she had just finished placing one on each desk. “You must wait until after class. It will taste much better if you allow yourself to wait.”

And so begins the young Ohioans’ lesson on abstinence—the only method of pregnancy or disease prevention that they will learn during their high school sexuality education class. 

One in every four adolescents receives this type of abstinence-only sexuality education. According to recent statistics from the Guttmacher Institute, 41 percent of teenagers (regardless of the type of sexuality education they received) know little or nothing about condoms and 75 percent know little or nothing about oral contraception. One in three teenagers claims to have never had any formal education on birth control, suggesting that even those not necessarily enrolled in abstinence only programs are still unable to access critical sexual health information.

From KYBOOMU: Ya’ll, I am so dead.  And I’ve been dead for a long time, according to Ohio’s sexuality education.

41% of teenagers know little or nothing about condoms.

75% know little or nothing about oral contraception.

There is no significant difference in the rates of teenage sexuality in the United States compared to other similar, developed Western countries. American teens are simply far less likely to use contraception. It is no surprise that the United States has one of the highest teen pregnancy and STI rates in the developed world.