On the popular feminist blog Feministe, a visitor will be given news stories with a spin that will somehow usually support women's rights. It is a blog where the main target audience is women so it is not a surprise that I do frequent these sites. However, after recently visiting this blog, a recent blog post, "You Learn Something New Everyday," made sense to me.
The topic of the post was sex education. In it, the author known as Cara, provided a link to the new platform of WhyNow?, a leader in providing abstinence-only education. Cara then basically rips the platform apart and accuses it of being out of touch with reality.
Her arguments did make sense to me. The reality is that teenagers do have sex and that it probably will not lead to the end of the world. Telling kids that sex is evil and should never be practiced premaritally, does not, and will not, stop kids from doing it. The focus of the education should be on practicing it safely rather than ignoring the fact that it is actually happening. If the fact that teenagers are having sex isn't realized then the education will fail to teach kids how to practice it safely, which needs to be the key issue.
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