Stephan: Because of the deep sexual dysfunction of the christofascist community abstinence only sex instruction -- I hesitate to call it education -- is something that through the Republican Party they are always pushing.
All statements about its effectiveness and success are absolute total crap, either outright lies or willful ignorance. I have done a great deal of research on this, and published a number of papers based on the actual facts -- see www.explorejournal.com or Academia.edu for the papers.
Every properly conducted social research study shows that the result of abstinence only school instruction is increased sexually transmitted diseases, increased unwed births, a whole range of sometimes life long negative social consequences, increased abortion, increased health care expenses, and on and on. It really is one of the stupidest Republican social policies ever conceived.
And yet, here we go again. The christofascist world doesn't like facts that's for sure, and this is the proof.
‘A majority of Americans want their children taught accurate and comprehensive information about sex.’
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There is something perfect about the irony of Donald Trump – a man who bragged about the size of his penis during a debate and who is currently being sued by a porn actress – advocating for abstinence-only education. But here we are, in the upside down.
Politico reports that Valerie Huber, a longtime abstinence-only activist turned Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) staffer, will be making decisions about federal family planning funds. Huber, who was suspended from her position at the Ohio Department of Health after a state ethics investigation in 2006, is founder of the National Abstinence Educators Association, which later became Ascend. (The name change was part of a broader move by the abstinence-only movement to seem more credible.)
The ironies and absurdities abound with this crowd and they seem totally unaware. No sense of humor/self which they project onto others-“you snowflakes have no sense of humor, that was trump being trump…”