So we all know the word- I find it to be about the dumbest form of education ever: Abstinence. When this is taught as the "best" option it just strikes me as really really stupid. First off, how ignorant and naive do you have to be to think that teaching kids only-abstinence will really do anything positive?
Spurred by a classroom demonstration involving a sex toy, Tennessee recently enacted a pro-abstinence sex education law that is among the strictest in the nation.
The most debated section of the bill bars educators from promoting "gateway sexual activity." But supporters seemed too squeamish during floor debate to specify what that meant, so critics soon labeled it the "no holding-hands bill."

The sex ed law now uses the criminal statute on sexual assault to specify acts — such as groping or fondling — that fall under "gateway sexual activity." It also says family life curriculum must not "display or conduct demonstrations with devices specifically manufactured for sexual stimulation."
"I teach my child the power of abstinence," said Glover, whose complaint spurred the drafting of the legislation. "When you start bringing sex toys in, at a point you're stimulating the kids to have sex."
"I think that is unique in that rather than this legislation just saying there needs to be an emphasis on abstinence education, it also prohibits too explicit sex education from being either put in schools under the guise of abstinence education, or in opposition to an abstinence education program," she said.
TN is getting pretty dumb. The whole thing started when a teacher used a dildo to accurately show how to put on a condom... while yes a little over the top, education here folks, not trying to arouse the children. If you go with abstinence only education then you're going to be surprised when teens get pregnant because they're going to have sex- humans are very sexual creatures and those years are when you first start getting those "funny feelings." Teach them safe sex, not stupid abstinence only BS, and certainly don't make fondling a crime!
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