Girl with a One Track Mind cut straight to the chase with Monday’s post.
I couldn’t have put it better myself.
$1b is an astonishing amount of money to spend on a abstinence programme that tells teenagers to do the direct opposite of what every hormone in their body is impelling them to do on daily basis.
As Niki, one of The Girl’s commenters says, ‘one of the easiest ways to get a teenager interested in doing something is to tell them not to do it’.
We have a long way to go, both America and the UK, before we get anywhere near the level of sophistication the Dutch apply to the teaching of sex education. They have one of the lowest rates of teenage pregnancy in the world.
Enough said.
Still, I cannot deny a morbid fascination with George Bush and his abstinence programmes.
I wonder how he lost his virginity?
Gosh, it really doesn’t bear thinking about does it…….but…I would still love to know.
In fact the thought of going to America and interviewing Americans in general gets me going. Where does the reality lie between the progressive ideas that pour from the pages of books like Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, Borat’s unfortunate frat boys and the popularity of The Silver Ring Thing and other chastity promoting movements?
What is the grassroots truth? Where are America’s youth really at?
And how might those stories compare with those of their parents? People for whom the tipping point between the 1950’s paranoia and purity combo and 1960’s ‘liberation’ is still a relatively fresh memory?
America is a fecund patchwork of cultures, ideas, opportunities and sophistication peppered with an elite few who still persist in wearing the emperors clothing. I would relish the opportunity to cut to the chase, to take that written snapshot of a country that inspires global loving and loathing in equal measures.
All from the perspective of it’s virginity.
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