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We're here. We're sexual. Get used to it. Abstinence programs have failed teens of color. Now young people are telling adults to get out of the way of their sex education.
AS BEFITTING AN ARTICLE about schools, here's a pop quiz taken from the sex education website Teenwire.org: In 1937, studies claimed that nine out of 10 children caught masturbating were: a) severely punished; b) told they would go insane or blind; c) threatened with having their penises cut off or their vaginas sewn closed; or d) all of the above.
The answer? d) all of the above.
Now, before you start laughing at the absurdity of life in the 1930s, consider this contemporary statement from the "guardyourself" website of the abstinence-only organization Women's Clinic of Kansas City/Life Guard, which has received almost a million dollars in federal ...
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