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Bad education
The Women's Office of the Department of Health and Human Services offers up some really crappy sex ed.
Rebecca Traister [2005-12-18]
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  • she needs help to learn what to do about older boys pressureing her for sex

    << the page is for "women" from 10-16. Women from 10-16 have sex, but it is a small minority. It is simply not clear that omitting the information about sex from a page intended for 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16 year olds constitutes "bad education".>>

    the reason there are any girls aged 10 to 16 having sex is because they can't get unbiased sex education that would include ALL of the following : how to say no, birth control, disease. If more girls could get info, they'd develop the strength to say NO because we all know a girl 10 years old is not old enough to say yes, she is being coerced by an older boy and needs help to learn what to do about that

    -- cosmicmojo
    Tuesday, December 20, 2005 10:26 AM

  • So no 16 yo girl would want to have sex?

    Glad we cleared that up, thank God the wingers will be out some day and the sane people in charge.

    -- djbollman
    [Read djbollman's other letters]
    Tuesday, December 20, 2005 01:48 PM

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