I saw this infographic over at Sunny Megatron's blog. Wow! This is both an incredible infographic and shows the power of our current state of abstinence-only sex education.
Even while presidential candidates debate, we understand there will be no debate about sex education (or climate change, though there's a petition for that). It will be a while before they politicians talk sex in a positive light. It seems overall when politicians talk about sex, they confuse issues around sex and miseducate like Congressman Todd Akin (R-MO).
We're here for sex education of couples. Married couples and those in long-term relationships. But what if sex education started a little earlier? Sex positive parenting is absolutely essential -- and a topic we'll continue to talk about. Public sex education is also essential. Just as Maria Falzone noted in our interview, children who can't name their genitals are more likely to be abused. For all these reasons, we need to get our act together and provide realistic, comprehensive sex education in American schools. Until then, we'll count on organizations like Scarleteen to educate our youngens' about sex.
Check out this infographic. This is non-nonsensically bad. We must change.
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