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Sometimes I Cringe When I Hear Abstinence Educators Speak

Dec 22

Written by: Audrey Werner
12/22/2011 12:12 AM 

EVEN NEWSWEEK “GET’S IT”, WHY DON’T ABSTINENCE EDUCATORS?

It is ironic that sources like Kaiser, Rolling Stone mag, Time mag and Newsweek (and precious few others like Judith Reisman, Onalee McGraw and Carrie Abbott) are the ones to talk about the negative effect of this powerful imagery when we are the ones claiming "purity." The recent issue of Newsweek, Dec 9, 2002 is the most recent illustration. The cover story has this quote: "Chris joined a Christian abstinence group called Teen Advisors this year. "We watched their slide show in eighth grade and it just has pictures of all these STDs," he says. "It's one of the grossest things you've ever seen. I didn't want to touch a girl, like, forever.""

How would you like to be his wife in 10 years? His natural desire to touch has been damaged. It is not redirected or given an appropriate context; it has put him off to half the population of the world. Very likely, the girls in the group are coming to the same conclusion about males. Furthermore, the God-given gift of a sexual faculty has been generally besmirched. Who knows what sort of sexual hang-ups have been created in the name of something good? There is a similar quote in a recent issue of Time on abstinence. Imagine how many youths are never queried or who never say what they are feeling.

If STD slides of diseased genitalia are a bad idea why do people persist in showing them? Is it because they desperately want to do something, anything? Is it because this type of show is produced by a medical organization and has their stamp of approval, implying safety? The medical organization may be protecting its pocket book. Nobody has ever done an evaluation of the impact of the slides. It is on the producer to prove no harm, not on the kids to prove harm.

In any case, it doesn't take a neuropsychologist to figure this out. Just ask a grandmother because apparently, we moderns are too blinded to know what to show and what not to show. Where is the discernment? Ask Newsweek -- they found the invaded innocence; maybe they can find Christian discernment, too.

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