It never ceases to amaze me (and after what seven loooong years it should) that the drones who run the Federal Propaganda Apparatus Government miss the fact that changing human nature in matters like sex and puberty is akin to changing the course of the Mississippi River... sure there's a short-term engineering solution, but sooner or later Ol' Man River is gonna meander back to the way it wants to go...
The nation's campaign to get more teenagers to delay sex and use condoms is faltering, threatening to undermine the highly successful effort to reduce teen pregnancy and protect young people from sexually transmitted diseases, federal officials reported today.
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"The bottom line is in all these areas we don't seem to be making the progress we were making before," said Howell Wechsler, director of the division of adolescent and school health at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, which conducts the survey. "It's very troubling."
Yes, troubling indeed especially given the belief in magic that the 1600 Crew espouses when dealing with issues like teen sexuality and STD's/Condoms and pregnancy. You know, wave a wand and it all magically just doesn't make the threshold for discussion anymore.
Except when it doesn't.
Coming on the heels of reports that one in four teenage girls has a sexually transmitted disease and that the teen birth rate has increased for the first time in 15 years, the data is triggering alarm across the ideological spectrum.
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"Since we've started pushing abstinence, we have seen no change in the numbers on sexual activity," said John Santelli, chairman of the Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia University. "The other piece of it is abstinence education spends a good amount of time bashing condoms. So it's not surprising, if that's the message young people are getting, that we're seeing condom use start to decrease."
"We may be witnessing the beginning of a trend where we're reaping the harvest of medically inaccurate and ineffective sex education, which is abstinence-until-marriage sex education," said Michael D. Resnick, who studies teen sexual behavior at the University of Minnesota. "With a growing proportion of young people exposed to those curricula, I think we can begin to understand why we're beginning to see a reversal of the positive trends that had been happening."
Get that? Witnessing a trend where the discouragement of condom use (and hence safe sex) is being promoted because the chuckleheads in charge don't want to talk responsibly about icky sex stuff. And obviously the parents of these kids aren't taking up the slack... even though in the perfect "republican world" they will educate their kids because jeebus knows, we'd never want educators who know the best way to discuss icky sex to take that burden up.
