The new issue of Time magazine has an article titled An Rx For Teen Sex: Doctors are joining the abstinence movement. Here’s why they’re now telling kids, “Just say no” . It’s focused mainly on Worth the Wait, a sex-education curriculum in which “…the lessons set forth the clinical consequences of teen sex in pictures and eye-popping statistics charting the numbers of young people infected with sexually transmitted diseases. The take-home message: abstain from intercourse or put yourself at grave medical risk.”
With the explosion of hpv and other STDs, I can see why this program is catching on. “… hpv is spread through skin-to-skin contact of genitals and their surrounding areas, so condoms do not always protect against it. Which means …there is no such thing as safe sex.”
Yikes. I wonder if my three twenty-something sons know about hpv?
Disappointingly, “Worth the Wait is silent on masturbation and homosexuality…” Oy. And of course, nothing about the sexual gradualism of Rounding the Bases, either. (Text, MP3 or Real Audio.)