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October 18, 2007
Reading, Writing, and Rot
Posted by Dave Blount at October 18, 2007 10:15 AM
Catherine Johnson of Westchester County, New York reports on what her 13-year-old son learned recently at the Irvington Middle School Wellness Fair:
At the dinner table, he announces, "Today at school I learned that oral sex is safer than anal sex." This is a kid who hasn't even been on a date yet, or had a first kiss, as far as I know.
The kid had brought home some informational brochures from the gala event:
One titled "Woman to Woman" discussed how lesbians can protect themselves from HIV and featured an illustration of a woman spinning jubilantly in plastic wrap. Another provided graphic warning signs of sexually transmitted diseases in men, such as a thick discharge from the penis, and sores or blisters on the testicles.
Lovely images to implant into a 13-year-old's head — but probably no more neurosis-inducing than the global warming propaganda fed to grade-school kids, which has some of them terrified that the planet is doomed because the scourge known as human civilization is killing it.
On a tip from Wiggins.
