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You have to convince her to date you, but you're sure you'll get laid? 
Oh you silly English with your tea and crumpets and foreskins...
Very funny, you Americans with your burgers and your cold bell ends.
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Steve T said:
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Jim Jackson said:
You have to convince her to date you, but you're sure you'll get laid?
Oh you silly English with your tea and crumpets and foreskins...
Very funny, you Americans with your burgers and your cold bell ends.
Cold, but clean. There's a reason most American's don't understand the term "Smeg Head" without having to look it up.
Putting the "fun" back in Fundamentalist Christian Dogma.
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This post, and other popular "DT" posts, are being stickied until idiot boys's spongebob shit ends.
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This post, and other popular "DT" posts, are being stickied until idiot boys's spongebob shit ends.
g could you please stop spamming the forum with this post? your blatant post count buffering is annoying....thanks...
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What pisses me off is that, if you people are gonna be discriminative against sponges, you should at least admit it and not hide behind "board rules".
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I'm surprised no one has commented on the Waxman report. I find it amazing that this is what we're headed down in pursuit of ideology. It echoes the days of science being seen as heresy and ignorance celebrated as fact and preferable to inconveneient truth. Y'know, this kind of deliberate misinformation doesn't help anyones cause in the long term. Nor does it help EDUCATE our population.
Report faults abstinence lessons
Widespread errors of fact are found in more than 80% of 13 popular curricula
Waxman report: Abstinence courses flawed
Some Abstinence Programs Mislead Teens, Report Says
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"I have no objection talking about abstinence as a surefire way to prevent unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases," Waxman said. "I don't think we ought to lie to our children about science. Something is seriously wrong when federal tax dollars are being used to mislead kids about basic health facts."
The analysis, released by Rep. Henry Waxman, found that many of these curricula contain false information about the effectiveness of contraceptives and the risks of abortion. Several of the curricula contain basic scientific errors and present religious views as proven fact. Some curricula also treat gender stereotypes as scientific truth.
Here are some examples: In several abstinence-only programs, students are erroneously told that condoms fail to protect against HIV and that pregnancy occurs one out of every seven times that couples use a condom. One textbook states that touching another person's genitals "can result in pregnancy." Another suggests that 5% to 10% of women who have legal abortions will become sterile as a result.
One curriculum refers to a 43-day-old fetus as "a thinking person." Another incorrectly lists exposure to sweat and tears as risk factors for HIV transmission. And one textbook sanctimoniously instructs teenagers: "Women gauge their happiness and judge their success on their relationships. Men's happiness and success hinge on their accomplishments."
California has been wise enough to see through the hype of abstinence-only sex education, and it continues to be one of the few states that refuse to accept the federal funding for abstinence-only curricula.
Californians mandate HIV/AIDS education in our schools and require that all sexuality education is comprehensive and medically accurate. And our attention to the needs of our state's youth has paid off. Our teen pregnancy rate has fallen by 40% over the last 10 years — the largest decrease of any state except Alaska.
Abstinence-only curricula, such as those being pushed and funded by the Bush administration, aren't just riddled with errors — they clearly have no positive effect on the behavior of teens. Researchers at Columbia University found that while virginity "pledge" programs did help some of the participants delay sex, 88% still had premarital sex.
Additionally, the rates of sexually transmitted infections among pledgers showed no statistically significant difference from non-pledgers.
Despite these problems, the federal government will squander an astonishing $168 million for these programs in fiscal 2005. Although this falls short of the $270 million President Bush initially proposed, it more than doubles the amount spent in 2001. Meanwhile, programs that work go unfunded.
Proponents of abstinence-only sex education believe that knowledge can be dangerous. Ignorance, however, can be fatal. Last week, we marked World AIDS Day. When our young people are at risk of HIV infection as well as other sexually transmitted infections, it is unconscionable to deprive them of information that can save their lives.
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I would prefer as much of a fact-based cirriculum on sex and reproduction that we can provide rather than a value-based one.
-The biology of procreation and sexual stimulation.
-As many facts and solid scientific theories about STD contraction, pregnancy, abortion, masturbation, and abstinence (not "it's good to be abstinent," but rather "Here's what you get with being abstinent, here's what you don't get")
Leave the values-based stuff at home.
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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050131/hl_nm/health_abstinence_texas_dcQuote:
Texas Teens Increased Sex After Abstinence Program
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Abstinence-only sex education programs, a major plank in President Bush (news - web sites)'s education plan, have had no impact on teenagers' behavior in his home state of Texas, according to a new study.
Despite taking courses emphasizing abstinence-only themes, teenagers in 29 high schools became increasingly sexually active, mirroring the overall state trends, according to the study conducted by researchers at Texas A&M University.
"We didn't see any strong indications that these programs were having an impact in the direction desired," said Dr. Buzz Pruitt, who directed the study.
The study was delivered to the Texas Department of State Health Services, which commissioned it.
The federal government is expected to spend about $130 million to fund programs advocating abstinence in 2005, despite a lack of evidence that they work, Pruitt said.
"The jury is still out, but most of what we've discovered shows there's no evidence the large amount of money spent is having an effect," he said.
The study showed about 23 percent of ninth-grade girls, typically 13 to 14 years old, had sex before receiving abstinence education. After taking the course, 29 percent of the girls in the same group said they had had sex.
Boys in the tenth grade, about 14 to 15 years old, showed a more marked increase, from 24 percent to 39 percent, after receiving abstinence education.
Abstinence-only programs, which have sprouted up in schools across the nation, cannot offer information about birth control and must promote the social and health benefits of abstaining from sex.
Pruitt said he hoped the study would bring about changes in the content of abstinence-promoting programs.
"These programs seem to be much more concerned about politics than kids, and we need to get over that," he said.
One program technique has been to try to bolster students' self-esteem, based on the theory that self-confident teenagers would not have sex. Those programs, which sometimes do not even mention sex, have shown no effect, Pruitt said.
Other programs that focus on the social norms and expectations appear to be more successful, he said.
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No class in the world is going to convince kids that a penis rubbing against vaginal tissue doesnt feel fucking awesome.
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