http://sexinthepublicsquare.org/taxonomy/term/876 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://sexinthepublicsquare.org/node/521 <p>Abstinence-only &quot;education&quot; programs are one of the misbegotten, cancerous ideas to be foisted on the American school system in my lifetime, and probably far beyond that. The entire pedagogical theory has been debunked as thoroughly as the &quot;Intelligent Design&quot; nonsense, and more than once.  But because we figure that nothin&#39; says lovin&#39; like filling your kids up with shame and ignorance about their genitals, Congress has kept shovelling money at programs that tell kids that contraception doesn&#39;t work, that sex will soil their precious &quot;purity,&quot; and monogamous heterosexual marriage is the only way to go when it comes to doing the horizontal bop.</p><p>Fortunately, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/15/AR2007121500773.html?hpid=topnews" target="_blank">the Washington Post brings us some good news on this front</a>:</p><p><a href="http://sexinthepublicsquare.org/node/521">read more</a></p> http://sexinthepublicsquare.org/node/521#comments abstinence bullshit sex education Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:10:25 -0800 Chris 521 at http://sexinthepublicsquare.org