Rebecca Hagelin the vice president of The Heritage Foundation wrote a column for townhall.com (a website that bills it’s self as “Conservative News and Information – The Conservative Movement Starts Here”) entitled “A culture awash in porn”. She insinuates in the article the need to teach youth abstinence because you can find porn everywhere. She insinuates this - she does not come right out and state it. I have many problems with this train of thought, as well as with the article itself.
These days I tend to lean much more right then left on any given day, but some thoughts the conservative right have are just down right primitive – puristic – prissy and pucked up. First off I can’t understand why people are against sex. Fucking is natural. Something you’ll hear me say many times is; Sex is hereditary. If your parents didn’t have sex, chances are you probably won’t either. So let’s, first off, agree that sex is meant to happen. It’s biological and you can’t change that. Trying to teach youth to abstain from having sex is like trying to teach the sky not to rain. You can throw lots of money at it, but in the end, you can’t stop it from happening. Youth are full of raging hormones, I know, I was young once myself. The better thing would be to teach youth safe sexual practices, tech them how to explore safely. Knowledge is power, and we should give our youth the power to stay safe. With teaching abstinence only we are depriving the youth of the power they need to stay safe, they won’t have the knowledge to explore safely. Giving youth the tools and knowledge they need to explore sex and sexuality safely is such a better idea. It will lead to lower STDs and pregnancy of youth. And to be honest, while we are at it, when they get a little further along in sexual education, let’s start teaching some techniques as well. (i.e. Dry fingers = no, vaginal sex after anal sex = bad idea, etc and so on.) Teaching abstinence until after high school or marriage just isn’t going to work.
On us being “a culture awash in porn”, I’ll agree. We are also a culture awash in sports stats, a culture awash in violence, and a culture awash in fads, diets, feel good drugs, blah, blah, fucking blah. I got news for you sister, if you don’t want to look at porn. Don’t look for porn. Don’t want to know how the Cubs are doing? Don’t look. Don’t want to know what’s going on in the world? Don’t watch the news. Just because you find something offensive or have some knee-jerk response and think it’s harmful, don’t try to prevent me from my enjoyment of it. Don’t want your kids looking at porn? Stop making it out to be so evil. By doing that your making it into a highway wreak, and your kids are going to break there necks trying to looking at all of it. Don’t make porn out to be a big deal, and it’ll stop being a big deal. Sorry to tell your muddled mind this, but it’s natural to want / like to see people rutting like animals, because it speaks to that animal that is a part of us. It’s called breeding, and each of us is wired for it in some form or fashion. By making porn and sex out to be bad negative things, makes that hindbrain in all of us want to see what the big deal is. We’d do better for our youth and our future if we were to teach them sex can be positive, how to have it in a positive way, and how to be safe. If we teach our youth sex is bad, and scare them from it, we won’t be around much longer.
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