A Whole Lot of Itching
You know how we only teach abstinence sex education in Texas because that’s all that’s proper and teaching kids about sex will make them just want to have sex?
Score one for the losing team!
KOSA-TV of Odessa and Midland reports the Crane Independent School District sent a letter last week to parents of Crane High School students informing them that 20 cases of chlamydia had been confirmed at the school. Crane High School has an enrollment of about 300 students.
State health officials had notified the district of a significant number of chlamydia cases reported in Crane County and adjacent Upton County.
Yeah, well, the kids figured it out on their own.
Hey, what a cool prom theme: Chlamydia Through the Years —
Thanks to Susan F for the heads up.
Who knew? Thought in Texas all that was needed to stay disease free and a virgin was a bulla osteotomy and a total ear canal ablation.
1And wingnuts don’t allow poor folks to buy shellfish with food stamps. Go figure.
2Does that come with hair on your palms? Great results for abstinence-only sex ed.
3Trouble with this outbreak…or maybe not…is that all those (probably embarrassed) infected kids have to face their horrified parents. They’ll either be grounded for the next four to five years, or maybe some of those parents will get a clue that abstinence only just isn’t cutting it.
4Mom, Dad, this is my date: Patient Zero.
5Chlamydia? Ain’t she the sister of that there Shariah Law I keep hearing about?
6If those 20 are the cool kids, or thought they were the cool kids, they’re gonna need more than their good looks and charm to fall back on in the future.
“I’m sorry, your last urine test is more than 3 months old, so unless you can get that updated by the end of the week… I’m… kinda busy this Friday…”
7Not teaching your kids about sex so they’ll stay virgins is like not teaching your kids how to swim so they won’t drown.
So how’s the pregnancy rate at this school?
8Perhaps something sung to the tune of “Lydia the Tattooed Lady”
“Chlamydia, Chlamidia, have you got Chlamydia?
9Uhhh. Have you been to Crane? I don’t think there is anything to do there as a teen except do the nasty.
10Parents can teach their own children about sex.
But where do they learn about sexually transmitted diseases so they can teach their children? If they themselves are not taught in school?
Should they be requiring parents to take a sex education course instead of the kids?
Maybe they could teach about Chlamydia at the football games, you know have a cheer about how NOT to get it!
11Well…having lived through this abstinence idiocy with a teenager in the late 80s, in a small town, wait until half the high school turns up with HPV! Venereal warts are eversomuch fun, particularly when these kids ‘change partners frequently’ among their group and voila! Twenty or so suddenly have HPV! Patient zero? Generally a ‘guy’ who was just having so much for with all the gals and now they are all infected. Good Times!
12OK. That sort of abstinence thing was prevalent right on up to the 60’s all through society and no it wasn’t workable. A lot of parents, male and female, had no idea of the correct names for different body parts. This was prudery to the nth degree and sometimes fatal. People saw a doctor way too late about something that wasn’t “right” down “there” and died when they could have been saved. Considering the statistics associated with abstinence only, you would think that somewhere along the line society in general just damn well had to grow up and face reality. You would think . . . think . . . think . . .
13Come share some afternoon delight
and contract chlamydia by tonight
When pressed by parents just repeat
You got it from the school’s toilet seat.
Hey baby,I put the STD in stud. Now all I need is “U”
14E platypus onion, that was brilliant.
15Loved the “Afternoon Delight” parody, e platypus onion.
16Unfortunately the last thing that religious fanatics do is think.
They say their self-righteous prayers and ignore reality, and this MO is not limited to sex-ed.
And, reminded by Eykis, a fat raspberry for the parents who don’t want their little darlings to have the HPV vaccine, thus possibly condemning the kids to death by cancer decades later.
17@Diane
18No, at football games, they’ll PRAY to keep their kids from getting STDs. Surely that will work!
The number of cases of stds only reinforces wingnut’s idea that abstinence only sex education works- except when it doesn’t.
19hippie cowboy: good one! Made me cackle 😉
20maggie, I had two different friends in college who lost their virginity without knowing it happened. They were that ignorant. They found out when the guys told them later. One’s total sex education was to have a box of sanitary napkins passed to her through the crack in the bathroom door when she thought she was dying of some kind of hemorrhage at puberty.
I got the puberty information in school in 5th grade. I got more from my parents around 3rd grade when I started asking questions. There were no taboo subjects in our home. Thank you, Mom and Dad! I got to make my choices from knowledge, not from fear or after getting diseased or pregnant.
Ignorance is not bliss. It can get you dead.
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