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One Good Reason To Vote For Hillary Clinton.
She's pro-choice and pro-sex ed.
Or, to lump it into one reason instead of two, she's pro-reproductive rights.
I found that out thanks to an article in this month's Time magazine where they were talking about the 'pregnancy crisis centers' that give you misleading information about abortions in order to try to stop you from having one. They also use emotional manipulation -- try taking a test there to see if you're pregnant and they'll hand you a pair of hand-knit, baby blue booties with the announcement, "Congratulations, you're going to be a mother."
According to the article, some states have more of those than they have actual abortion clinics.
Fantastic.
Anyway, in the article, Hillary was paraphased as saying that she supports reproductive rights, including proper education about prevention and sex so as to decrease the need for abortions.
THANK YOU.
Something that drives me absolutely insane to read about is the apparent horror America has of sex education. Every time I see an article about how some parent complained to a school that oh noes, their child is being told how babies are made, I end up wondering what the hell is wrong with people.
The odds are that your child is eventually going to have sex. Assuming you don't want them taught about sex ed because you're scared it'll encourage them to have pre-marital sex, what about after they get married? What if they don't want to have babies straight away because it'll derail their career or because they can't afford a baby or because they just think that they're too young? For some reason, I seriously doubt that there are courses on sex ed offered for 'Young Yuppies Not Prepared For Pregnancy', and it's not exactly like they can just go back to a school that does provide that sort of information.
Of course, there's always the Internet but anyone who'd trust the Internet to teach their kid how sex happens is an absolute idiot and shouldn't be having sex in the first place. There are probably great guides out there on how to please your wife/husband/boyfriend/girlfriend/android fucktoy. They're just buried under all the really, really, really bad smut and porn. And porn is definitely not something anyone should be taking tips from, especially if it's the issue of long fingernails in girl/girl sex. Ow. Seriously.
Conclusion? Sex education is good. In fact, people in general being informed is good. If you're not informed, you can't make informed choices and while guessing blindly might be a working tactic for, say, playing Minesweeper (does anyone out there still play it or is that a dated culture reference?), it's a little less practical if you're risking your life because nobody told you how STDs are transmitted, to take a random example.
Sex ed isn't just about not getting pregnant. It's about not getting diseases, about not going through unnecessary pain, about knowing what's happening to your body during sex -- sex ed is basically supposed to set you up so that when you do have sex, you have a smaller chance of anything bad happen and a better chance of you enjoying it.
Since I'm asexual, I ended up ducking out of a lot of the school sex ed courses, including hiding in the changing room to avoid watching the tapes, but I'm still glad that they were offered. I think abstinence-only sex ed is an incredibly bad idea and just setting teens up to be unable to even have a responsible adult figure to question about their worries, as well as make them feel more guilt-ridden if they do have sex and personally, the chances of me voting for Hillary went waaaaaaay up when I read that she openly supports sex ed.
Go Hillary!
...Maybe I'll even make an icon in her favor.
Or, to lump it into one reason instead of two, she's pro-reproductive rights.
I found that out thanks to an article in this month's Time magazine where they were talking about the 'pregnancy crisis centers' that give you misleading information about abortions in order to try to stop you from having one. They also use emotional manipulation -- try taking a test there to see if you're pregnant and they'll hand you a pair of hand-knit, baby blue booties with the announcement, "Congratulations, you're going to be a mother."
According to the article, some states have more of those than they have actual abortion clinics.
Fantastic.
Anyway, in the article, Hillary was paraphased as saying that she supports reproductive rights, including proper education about prevention and sex so as to decrease the need for abortions.
THANK YOU.
Something that drives me absolutely insane to read about is the apparent horror America has of sex education. Every time I see an article about how some parent complained to a school that oh noes, their child is being told how babies are made, I end up wondering what the hell is wrong with people.
The odds are that your child is eventually going to have sex. Assuming you don't want them taught about sex ed because you're scared it'll encourage them to have pre-marital sex, what about after they get married? What if they don't want to have babies straight away because it'll derail their career or because they can't afford a baby or because they just think that they're too young? For some reason, I seriously doubt that there are courses on sex ed offered for 'Young Yuppies Not Prepared For Pregnancy', and it's not exactly like they can just go back to a school that does provide that sort of information.
Of course, there's always the Internet but anyone who'd trust the Internet to teach their kid how sex happens is an absolute idiot and shouldn't be having sex in the first place. There are probably great guides out there on how to please your wife/husband/boyfriend/girlfriend/android fucktoy. They're just buried under all the really, really, really bad smut and porn. And porn is definitely not something anyone should be taking tips from, especially if it's the issue of long fingernails in girl/girl sex. Ow. Seriously.
Conclusion? Sex education is good. In fact, people in general being informed is good. If you're not informed, you can't make informed choices and while guessing blindly might be a working tactic for, say, playing Minesweeper (does anyone out there still play it or is that a dated culture reference?), it's a little less practical if you're risking your life because nobody told you how STDs are transmitted, to take a random example.
Sex ed isn't just about not getting pregnant. It's about not getting diseases, about not going through unnecessary pain, about knowing what's happening to your body during sex -- sex ed is basically supposed to set you up so that when you do have sex, you have a smaller chance of anything bad happen and a better chance of you enjoying it.
Since I'm asexual, I ended up ducking out of a lot of the school sex ed courses, including hiding in the changing room to avoid watching the tapes, but I'm still glad that they were offered. I think abstinence-only sex ed is an incredibly bad idea and just setting teens up to be unable to even have a responsible adult figure to question about their worries, as well as make them feel more guilt-ridden if they do have sex and personally, the chances of me voting for Hillary went waaaaaaay up when I read that she openly supports sex ed.
Go Hillary!
...Maybe I'll even make an icon in her favor.
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It baffles me...
I think it's important to learn about sex - and everything that goes along with it. Within reason. I mean, a teacher shouldn't go off telling their students things that brush off of rated R-NC-17 material, BUT that doesn't mean there still isn't a way to teach all sorts of things (obviously).
I think, also, it should be twice in a students time... Once when younger (young teenager/preteen) - for the basics and warnings and safety (since more people seem to be having sex at a younger age) and then again some time in High School... Since, when I remember, people are either giggling or sqeaked out at the mere talk of sex from adults at a young age... but, they still need to learn/know.
But yes, I think it's important and I do not agree that it encourages students to have sex at a young age... I don't see why so many parents think that. If anything, it teaches their child to be safe and smart -- and aware... ~_~'
But yes, I agree, I just needed to rant some xD
And... xD Long fingernails? OUCH. Dude, I think long fingernails could even potentionally hurt a male ... when/where they may not want to be hurt... more so a female in THAT example, but still male, too. That's... *squirms* OUCH.
Being informed is wise, indeed ^^
But yes, I agree with your points on Sex Ed and... ouch to the nails, still.
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I actually learned about sex from the internet, at least anything beyond Man + Woman = Baby. How? No idea. My parents never bothered to give me the lecture and I was sick those glorious times it was explained to us in detail in class. So I never really figured it out until I read some NC-17 fics... you know, back when FF.net actually allowed them and all. I once asked my mom why she didn't give me the lecture and I guess she trusted me to figure it out on my own. I suppose it was bound to show up eventually in one of the books I read, although Tamora Pierce sorta just skimmed over it so much that I had no idea what she was talking about in those Alanna books until wayyyy later.
Heh. ^^
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