hi. my name is erin.: One popular classroom exercise, for example,...

18:11 8th Feb 2012

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One popular classroom exercise, for example, employs Scotch Tape to demonstrate how premarital sex can make girls dirty. A teacher holds up a clear strip of tape, meant to represent a girl, in front of the class. The teacher then puts the strip of tape, adhesive side down, on the arm of a boy in the class, to symbolize his sexual relationship with the girl. The teacher rips off the tape (signifying the breakup, apparently) and holds it up again for the class to look at. Students are meant to see that the strip of tape—the girl—has picked up all kinds of dirt and hair from the boy’s arm and is no longer clean. Then, when the teacher tries to stick the same strip to another boy’s arm, he or she notes that it doesn’t stick—they can’t bond! To end things with a bang, the abstinence educator makes a remark about the girl’s being “used” and therefore unable to have strong future relationships.

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Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth (via wishful-sinful)

This was done in my “sex ed” class about 4 times in my grade school career.

(via the-sexpert)

WHO DOES THAT. Ugh. My faith in humanity is constantly diminishing.

(via becauseiamawoman)

This is so disgusting to me.

(via fuckyeahwomenprotesting2)

I’ve had the box exercise done in Catholic school. Basically there would be three boxes in front of us: one very nicely wrapped, another one half open, and another one completely destroyed. Apparently the one completely destroyed are the girls that have had sex, because now a vagina is a gift to a spouse. Ughh I hate sex ed.

Uhhh that is NOT sex ed. There is nothing educational about that sexist noise.

(via stfusexists)

They did the tape thing at every single church affiliated event I ever went to that had anything to do with sex. In fact, I went to a True Love Waits thing in my freshman year and they made a show of squeezing a banana while it was still in the peel and then opening it to show us that even if it still looks good on the outside, it can be destroyed on the inside. This was apparently a metaphor for how any kind of sexual activity, even if you didn’t ~open the peel, still made you a dirty, useless pile of mush.

(via stackedcrooked)

I could write a book of horror stories from Catholic School Sex Ed. Including the time we watched a video where an earnestly terrifying woman told us condoms would give us ladyparts cancer. In the most ridiculously slut-shaming language ever.

(via entropicflux)

DDD: There are times that I’m glad that my school just had a “NO SEX ED TALK PERIOD OH MY GOD” policy (except for the era appropriate ”HAVE SEX WITHOUT A CONDOM AND YOU WILL GET AIDS AND YOU WILL DIE” class once a year and the Annual Prayer and Bible Club “True Love Waits” pledge which every one went to so they could skip class)

(via couldbeyourlife)

HAHAHAHA we spent a whole semester on sex ed in freshman year and it was horrifying. Wall-to-wall STD research (though no information about how to not get or treat STDs, just news about which ones would kill/sterilize us quickest) and hideous videos of people shrieking at us to protect our virtue because we would make our future husbands sad if we were all used up and sluttified and stuff. Endless videos about how awful it is to ruin yourself for marriage by not keeping your knees together.

And then in sophomore year we spent a quarter learning from a book called Abortion: The Silent Holocaust. Like that’s what our final exam was on. There were a lot of really great things about my school but damn, the attitudes around sex were…predictably Catholic.

(Source: passions-misgivings-wants)