This is just another agenda to pacify the puritans. The "well, we ARE trying at least" gesture.

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Teens are going to have sex, regardless if we put 100 f--king billion dollars into these stupid programs. What are people not undestanding about how money and programs DO NOT solve every problem? Just look at education.

More than 1 million reported chlamydia cases set STD record - CNN.com

Clearly abstinence propaganda is not the solution.


There was one thing we did in a class I taught that may have helped though. Pictures of HPV-infected genitalia. Shit, after that I didn't want to have sex for a while. I think my students were appropriately concerned as well.

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Actually you have just said that you don't trust parents to properly teach their children. That seems like a very dangerous way of thinking, IMO.

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Well said Lexie. People who suggest that teaching kids safe sex encourages them to have sex, must thereby also infer that taking a defensive driving course encourages you to drive crazily!

The reality is that there are people (parents) in this world who either don't care enough about their children to teach them at all, or don't teach them correctly. It's not a dangerous way of thinking ... it's just a very sad fact.

You need a licence to drive a car; you need a licence to own a gun; heck you even need a licence to go fishing ... but any prick with a d*ck and a vagina can make a baby. What's even more unfortunate is that quite often it's the people who should least be put in charge of raising a child that are able to have one! Grrrr....

schools should IMHO be teaching science , mathematics and other courses which enhance the student's ability to be productive and earn a good wage at a good job.

schools should not be teaching sex education , or handing out condoms , or be involved in any ideology campaigns.

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But isn't sexual reproduction science? And isn't the pressure to not teach sex education succumbing to an ideology campaign in itself?

Male Birth Control Pill Stops Sperm in Brain
Posted by Nick Timiraos
It’s been almost ten years since Pfizer brought Viagra to the market. Now, researchers are working to crack the code on what could be another sexual health miracle: a male birth control pill.

This morning at a meeting of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, researchers described early work in rats on a pill that one day could render men temporarily infertile. The key is something called a selective androgen receptor modulator, or SARM. “These compounds suppress a brain hormone, and shut down sperm production in a reversible way,” Jim Dalton, vice president of research and development at GTx, tells the Health Blog. GTx, based in Memphis, Tenn., specializes in hormone treatments for cancer and men’s health.

To achieve birth control, men would have to take such a pill for two to three months to deplete their sperm. It would take about the same amount of time for them to return to full reproductive capacity after stopping the medicine. Even if all goes well, any pill is still five to 10 years away.

But in rats, the experimental drug, referred to as “C-31,” achieved 100% infertility at a dose of just a tenth of a milligram a day. Some 83% of rats treated with the drug regained fertility 70 days after treatment, according to an summary of the presentation. At 100 days, the fertility rate was 100%. The work was supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health.

Many pharmaceutical companies are doing research in SARMs, which may help combat muscle and bone loss. Last week GTx inked a research pact with Merck on development of drugs for those uses.

A male contraceptive using SARMs could have the positive side effect of boosting muscle mass for users. “They’re not going to be disappointed with that,” says Dalton, also a professor at Ohio State University.

But the rats in the study didn’t gain or lose muscle mass. And their prostates shrank, an undesirable side effect. So there’s still plenty of work to be done before any drug from the work is ready for men.
Louis J Sheehan

So according to you schools shouldnt teach facts because it insults the parent's abilities to do so? Thats a ridiculous way of thinking.