@Anonymous: Yes I'm judging it. I feel that abstinence only education is wrong for the modern world. Sex in a relationship (meaning not fucking everything that breathes) is healthy and allows the relationship grow, a fully grown relationship with two sexually mature adults is best or the world. I would find that article "funny" (in a sad sort of way) because most abstinence based arguments revolve around god wanting us to be "pure", or sex as some dirty curse, both of those lead to warped views of sex and could potentially lead to adults not willing to accept the healing and bonding properties of sex. Never said I was a liberal, I read that headline as a satirist.

Whaddup now?

@Anonymous: I was talking about the Reagan article, but even then, abstinence is still "the best". 100% of not getting STDs, not having a baby, people not laughing at how small your equipment is... Abstinence is statistically the best.

Even then, abstinence is still taught along side "safe" sex in most schools (safe in quotation marks because nothing in this world is safe).

@Anonymous: So would you like to be the one to teach hormone ridden teenagers that they can *have* sex just not *all* the time with everyone? When does a relation become ready to grow through sex? What if one person is ready for sex and the other isn't?

Look, all I'm saying is that sure, maybe sex helps a relationship grow, but we already know that abstinence does that too, and the curriculum is already there for abstinence. Granted, in a similar way to the "D.A.R.E." program, the curriculum doesn't always work, but that doesn't mean it should be abandoned.

@Anonymous: I've just finished the Reagan article, and I actually find it quite interesting. The effects of Reaganomics on black people. Now, I realize that was a different time, with a different world, and different politics, but that is an interesting point.

@Anonymous: Freedom of speech is not freedom from criticism, bub.

@Anonymous: Criticism and saying something *shouldn't exist because it's so bad* aren't the same thing either. Bub.

@shenkerism: That's just an issue of semantics, bub. You're taking things read on the internet at face value.

@Anonymous: If it's just an issue of semantics, maybe you should have picked a better word.

@shenkerism: >implying I said that in the first place

I'm just defending others from the illogical types like you.

@Caeristhiona: > You don't think Better Homes and Gardens is a bourgeois ploy?

That was a test to see if you were reading.







[spoiler]Of course Better Homes and Gardens has the interests of the self-emancipating working class at heart.[/spoiler]

@Anonymous: Abstinence has a much higher failure rate than latex condoms.

@Anonymous: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6927733.stm

The British with a n=15000 study of adolescents have proved that abstinence has no effect on adolescent sexual behaviour.

Telling kids "what what in the butt" is more effective at preventing pregnancy than abstinence programs.

@fifel: "They found abstinence programmes had no negative or positive impact on the rates of sex infections or unprotected sex, the British Medical Journal said."

Well, at least it wasn't positive, but great article, broski.

@Anonymous: The main reason to teach children to practice abstinence is because it is kinky. Seriously, it is a BDSM relationship between old christian men and adolescent children.

For preventing disease transmission I would recommend condoms.

For preventing pregnancy I'd recommend exclusive homosexuality.

@Anonymous: Any conspiracy theory that uses the word proletariat and bourgeois is immediately bullshit. There are no exceptions to this rule. Seriously I'm glad you haven't called anyone sheeple yet.

@Anonymous: "Proletariat" is a technical term in social science's class analysis to specifically refer to wage and salary earners, correspondingly "bourgeoisie" refers to those who subsist off profits from earning capital.

"Working class" and "1%" don't have the same coverage, they don't discuss a "relationship to production."

@Anonymous: Expecting facts from a conservative publication? Don't you know reality has a liberal bias?

@Anonymous: "college." I won't hold your Americanism against you, but the world is larger than your debt ridden white collar working class existence, and Webberian class analyses are only good for imposing power by dividing the working class.

For the continued importance of "relationship to production" centred class analyses I'd point you to Greece, Ya Basta!, Argentina, the Tea Party's popular base, OWS, GNU and the Pirate Party.

Webberian analyses don't manage to successfully cover the economic motivations behind the rank and files of these movements. In the US context, I'd recommend processed world, or radical america, or radical history review, or CLR James, or the Johnston-Forrest tendency, or Midnight Notes, or Aufheben, or Harry Cleaver, or Dyer-Witherford.

In particular, marketing "conservative teen" at white blue collar working class children is bloody obviously part of the class war, particularly when the cover says, "Welcome to the DEBT-PAYING GENERATION." when the largest issue in ensuring continued valorisation in the US is forcing the working class to not default en masse on consumer credit.

@Anonymous: "I won't hold your Americanism against you, but the world is larger than your debt ridden white collar working class existence"

Stopped reading there.

ITT: anal pained e-liberals

@Anonymous: Liberal old men are just as bourgeois as conservative old men. I tell you comrade, read Better Homes and Gardens and emancipate yourself from capitalism.

@Sunspex: you might be illiterate. we can be sure at least that you've never read a real book. there's more out there than twilight bro.

@Anonymous: He's already read the Hunger Games.

@Anonymous: Hmmm ... a "history" book written about a capitalist representative democracy by a socialist. That's kind of like asking an atheist to write a review on the Bible ... you know what you're going to get and it isn't going to be pretty.

And yes, history was placed in quotes for a reason. Socialists seem to have a VERY difficult time recalling accurate history.

@Anonymous: >mfw this is used as a textbook in CA colleges
inb4 moar trollan