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Alice Dreger, a professor of medical humanities and bioethics at Northwestern University obviously knows quite a bit about the human body. So when she had the opportunity to sit in on her son’s high school “abstinence-only” education class she seized upon it as an eye-opening experience. It quickly turned into a rage inducing one as well.
Sitting in the back of her son’s class, Dreger live-tweeted the lessons the class was being taught. As one can imagine, the lesson plan was light on the “education” part of “sexual education” and very, very heavy on variations of the “sex is bad and you should be ashamed for having it” theme.
The whole lesson here is "sex is part of a terrible lifestyle. Drugs, unemployment, failure to finish school — sex is part of the disaster"
— Alice Dreger (@AliceDreger) April 15, 2015
"You'll find a good girl. If you find one that says 'no,' that's the one you want." HE ACTUALLY JUST SAID THAT.
— Alice Dreger (@AliceDreger) April 15, 2015
Now the woman is up. "Sometimes condoms fail."
— Alice Dreger (@AliceDreger) April 15, 2015
She's now telling story of condom box in which EVERY SINGLE CONDOM HAD A HOLE.As becomes clear very quickly, unlike other class subjects, “abstinence-only” sex education doesn’t require its lessons to be grounded in “facts.” The goal is to scare children, and the ends therefore justify the means. In this case the means include shaming, sexism, and a liberal use of outright lies.
— Alice Dreger (@AliceDreger) April 15, 2015
But they weren’t done. In case none of that worked, the abstinence teachers still had their nuclear option: Paper babies.
"We are going to roll this dice 8 times. Every time your number comes up, in pretend your condom failed and you get a paper baby." JESUS!!!
— Alice Dreger (@AliceDreger) April 15, 2015
Paper babies are being handed out to EVERYONE. They have ALL HAD CONDOM FAILURE AND THE WHOLE CLASS IS PREGNANT.
— Alice Dreger (@AliceDreger) April 15, 2015
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