Sex, Damned, Dirty, Sex!

http://www.healthtalk.ca/std_032005_80124.php
I've said it before, and now they're saying it with "proof" - abstinence is a for shit idea.
If thats your bag, and you've made the personal moral commitment to it, thats fine, but pushing this as the solution for all of teenage/un-wed America is insane.
As abstinence is pushed more and more, the actual education about sex gets to be less and less. Attitudes about condoms, birth control, the "morning after" pill, and so are are pushed back 60 years and they become "icky", "gross" things, that no one wants to talk about or think about, so no one uses them.
The knowledge of how disease is transmitted similarly gets "lost", and poof we get a bunch of kids with diseases or babies, because they couldnt hold to their vow (and most people probably cant - it is, after-all, our strongest human nature to fuck like bunnies, and one of the funner things we can do too) and when they did go after it like wild beasts they didnt use any precautions, and really had no idea about the risks of what they were up to.
Sex-Ed under the abstinence program is quickly becoming "Dont have sex, because sex is wrong, and its bad to even talk about it, so just do like your betters told you, dont fuck, and dont ask about what might happen if you do fuck, because fucking is bad and you shouldnt fuck."
Of course, many of the same people who are pushing the abinstenence programs are the same people who like to say that birth control, the morning after pill and even condoms are all forms of abortion, and that its murder and therefore we shouldnt be encouraging our high-schoolers and un-wed couples to use these items. Puritanical morality combined with Virginia hillbilly logic and knowledge. It is scientifically impossible for birth control, condoms or the morning after pill to be "abortion". No life is being created if those products are used, so no life is being destroyed. Its like jerking off - no life is created, so semen fertalizes the egg, no fertalized egg, no baby.
Yet people seem surprised that, after we've taught our children using these methods and this sort of "logic", that when they do finally loose it and have sex, they get some STD or get a baby. We teach them nothing about sex, except that its bad, and then when they sneak around, have no knowledge of "safety", and end up in a bad way, we're surprised.
Well... you reap what you sew.

Now this: http://www.halifaxlive.com/artman/publish/fda_plan_b_032005_38992.shtml
This is appropriately progressive.

This nation would be a lot better off if we didnt treat sex like a dirty little secret. Its the proverbial elephant in the living room, and because of that we have a nation of varying degrees of sexual dysfunctionals.
The ultra-conservative would-be minders in our government (or who have governments ear) who keep trying to impose their morality, puritanical standards and backwards thinking on everyone else, arent helping this one damned bit.