Gotta love Texas

A Texas High School that teaches abstinence only sex education has an outbreak of Chlamydia!

1 in 15 student have the sexually transmitted disease.  Proof that telling teens to "keep it in your pants" does NOT work at all.

How is telling kids about safety when they are in the moment, against religion?  Once again Texas proves beyond a reasonable doubt that solid facts always get in the way of a good fairy tale.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/05...16822.html

I can't copy the part of the actual curriculum to quote, but go to the bottom fine print and read their guidelines for the curriculum.

Of course you know how they will react to this: they will take the outbreak as a confirmation that their approach is justified, but merely not enforced violently enough.

Another data point in the long and atrocious trend of abstinence-only education. It's no wonder the areas with strict abstinence-only sex ed have the highest rates of teen pregnancies, STD's, and abortions.

Reverse psychology is a bitch, huh?

Do they not remember about being a teen boy?  Speaking for myself, I would have done any girl (regardless of who they were or how they looked) if she would give it up.

My Mom, a devout christian, asked me one day when I came home from the Navy if I was still a virgin.  Baw hahahahaha.  Her mouth hit the floor when I told her I lost it in 9th grade with a girl from our church 

I think with anything that "adults" do, you have to be real and discuss it with teenagers.

It's a rebellious age when you're a teenager, you're curious about trying stuff that adults do. So when they get this "You MUST not drink! You MUST not have sex!" message thrown in their faces, it only makes them more curious. They'll try these things without any kind of knowledge about it.

Compare the UK to the Netherlands. In the UK we have this stricter and more prudish attitude to sex, it's considered awkward to talk to our parents about it. In the Netherlands people do talk about it, it's not as taboo over there. Turns out the UK has the highest teen pregnancy and STD rates in Western Europe while the Netherlands is one of the lowest, and that's not a coincidence.

You can't stop teens from having sex in my opinion, they're curious and they're going to do it. But it's education that makes the difference, if they go into knowing how to protect themselves this is less likely to happen.

I doubt this will cause them to consider better sex ed practices in the future. Just keep treating the symptom, instead of the problem.

Having graduated from a TX high school, I can attest to the schizophrenic attitudes towards sex in the south. Officially, sex was all taboo and the attitudes towards it super-puritan, you couldn't wear dresses or pants that show your knees to school, everyone was more fundie Christian than then next guy, and at the same time all the guys in my class were bragging about scoring chicks left and right, which was basically taken as a sign of manliness, and more importantly, of not being gay. With that kind of discrepancy it's not surprising that this is the outcome. The girls to become pregnant most frequently were the catholic Mexicans, though.

hmmmm... if only there was some way of allowing those horny teenagers to have sex while preventing the spread of STDs...

(May 6, 2015 at 9:58 am)pocaracas Wrote: hmmmm... if only there was some way of allowing those horny teenagers to have sex while preventing the spread of STDs...

Without making baby jesus cry? Fat chance. Also, it's more manly without condoms. Ideally it should be a virgin, too.