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Put the Sex Back in Sex Ed
Time Magazine ^ | 3/13/14 | Camille Paglia

Posted on 03/14/2014 7:32:15 AM PDT by punknpuss

When public schools refuse to acknowledge gender differences, we betray boys and girls alike. Fertility is the missing chapter in sex education. Sobering facts about women’s declining fertility after their 20s are being withheld from ambitious young women, who are propelled along a career track devised for men.

The refusal by public schools’ sex-education programs to acknowledge gender differences is betraying both boys and girls. The genders should be separated for sex counseling. It is absurd to avoid the harsh reality that boys have less to lose from casual serial sex than do girls, who risk pregnancy and whose future fertility can be compromised by disease. Boys need lessons in basic ethics and moral reasoning about sex (for example, not taking advantage of intoxicated dates), while girls must learn to distinguish sexual compliance from popularity.

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Common sense sex education is missing in this nation and Paglia defines what's wrong. Read the whole article when you get the chance. I don't always like Paglia's views but I think she's spot on here.
1 posted on 03/14/2014 7:32:15 AM PDT by punknpuss
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To: punknpuss
I think she's a closeted Christian mom.

But certainly, my favorite lesbian atheist.

2 posted on 03/14/2014 7:41:01 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Gay marriage: "A machination of the Father of Lies to deceive the children of God." - Pope Francis)
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To: punknpuss
Camille Paglia has always been a voice in the wilderness.

My generation of baby-boom girls boldly rebelled against the cult of virginity of the Doris Day 1950s, but we left chaos in our wake. Young people are now bombarded prematurely with sexual images and messages. Adolescent girls, routinely dressing in seductive ways, are ill-prepared to negotiate the sexual attention they attract.

For some reason, she's a Democrat, but I never got the sense she was for party above all.

3 posted on 03/14/2014 7:44:33 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: punknpuss
While Miss Paglia's own lifestyle is controversial, she has always been spot on, in recognizing the absurdity of much of the Feminist delusions, which always ignore the actual interests of the feminine woman.

Camille understands the real power & importance of femininity, and has written some very strong condemnations of those denying the basic realities of sexuality.

William Flax

4 posted on 03/14/2014 7:45:44 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Camille’s politics are as confused as her hormones. She takes surprisingly conservative viewpoints on many things, but votes for Green Party presidential candidates deviating only to vote for Obama in 2008. She is a registered Dem who says she hates what the party currently stands for. WTF?


5 posted on 03/14/2014 7:48:00 AM PDT by Right Brother
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But certainly, my favorite lesbian atheist.

LOL - when I stopped laughing and thought about what you said I agreed. She's my favorite lesbian atheist too..

6 posted on 03/14/2014 7:49:27 AM PDT by GOPJ (From a bellwether to an "oh-whateverrrr" in less than a single news cycle. -freeper Fightin Whitey)
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To: punknpuss

...good luck teaching about drinking and not taking advantage...compromised virtues through inebriation has been happening since we learned how to ferment grain and fruit...


7 posted on 03/14/2014 8:06:16 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: punknpuss

Teach biology and stop playing political sex games.


8 posted on 03/14/2014 8:07:45 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: punknpuss

Stop using those cucumbers. Use the real thing??


9 posted on 03/14/2014 8:10:42 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Sacajaweau

Maybe Bill Clinton could do a video instruction series for our school youts?


10 posted on 03/14/2014 8:12:33 AM PDT by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: Sacajaweau

There’s a vas deferens between men and women.


11 posted on 03/14/2014 8:12:38 AM PDT by enraged
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To: enraged

You win best line of the day!


12 posted on 03/14/2014 8:23:35 AM PDT by HonorInPa
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To: GOPJ

[ But certainly, my favorite lesbian atheist.

LOL - when I stopped laughing and thought about what you said I agreed. She’s my favorite lesbian atheist too..]

Everyone forgets about Tammy Bruce....


13 posted on 03/14/2014 9:03:32 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: Sacajaweau

[ Teach biology and stop playing political sex games. ]

That is the problem with Radical Feminists, it is all political, they want to destroy gender as a concept or things, but that is like destroying a LAW of nature.

Now if they were really willing to destroy “Gender” as a concept, they would be funding private spaceflight so they could start an offworld coloniy somewhere where they could genetically engineer an asexual gender-less “neo-human being” that wouldn’t have gender, but that would involve them leaving the rest of us here on the earth the hell alone and they all share the progressive gene that forces them to constantly meddle in the affairs of others...

So that sure as heck ain’t gonna happen... Because that may require them to actually work for their goal rather than complain loudly about how they want to force the wolrd to conform to them and not actually get some dirt under their manicured symbol of male sexism fingernails....


14 posted on 03/14/2014 9:09:01 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: punknpuss

That’s what sex ed was about in my day.

Teach the girls not to get pregnant.
Teach the guys not to get social diseases.


15 posted on 03/14/2014 9:14:44 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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