Throwing money away on telling adults no sex for you! Ha ha ha. That's never going to work, freaking morons.

Even some of the religious people I know, including my no sex till marriage mother, eventually had premarital sex.

As for the single mother thing, well I'm pretty sure the religious don't care if the woman got pregnant on purpose, they don't want single mothers at all.

If the government could quash unmarried sex for people in their 20s, it would have a crushing effect on our popular culture as well -- effectively destroying most network TV programming (and all sitcoms) as we know it.

VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!

It's funny how the Republicans and Neo-Conservatives tell us that they're fighting for our freedom. Because that's what makes America special and different from every other country in the world: our freedom.

So why are they simultaneously stripping people of their supposed freedom? Granted, I could care less about them wasting their money on abstinence education for adults, as laughable of a cause as that is, but what business is it of theirs if Americans--with all this freedom--have sex with each other?

Whatever happened to the Republican party as the party of small government, of personal responsibility? Whatever happened to the disdain of socialism, of the infrigement of personal liberties?

At least when the Democrats are in control, the only people who are screwed are those who can afford to be.

I know that if I had just had the Federal Government harping at me when I was in college and law school, it would certainly have changed my behavior!!

With programs like this, perhaps it isn't so surprising that they could make such disastrous decisions in the foreign policy arena. Maybe they're not arrogant and high handed. Maybe they're just dumber than a box or rocks.

Or as someone far more eloquent said in the course of observing human sexual follies, "What fools these mortals be."

ploy that I first saw on front page MSN is too woo back the religious voters. Sorry about Mark Foley and all that money we're stealing and all those Iraqis we're killing and your children are dying and you don't have healthcare, but hey we'll spend a whole lot of money to tell adults they shouldn't be having sex unless they are married, see we really do care about the Bible! Imainge that money being spent instead on sick kids.

I guess the Republicans are throwing taxpayers money at the religious right in hopes of getting more of them out to vote.

"The only 100% effective way of [preventing out-of-wedlock pregnancy] is abstinence." Sure, and the only 100% effective way to prevent car accidents is to abstain from driving. And the only 100% effective way to prevent migraines is to abstain from having a head.

If people were actually able to practice abstinence, it WOULD be 100% effective. But back here in Reality, we know that even the most earnestly chaste adults do not succeed at abstinence 100% of the time. So calling abstinence 100% effective is a LIE. Abstinence is only 100% effective if you have 100% abstinence. (Not impossible, I guess. Just very, very improbable. Maybe the government is secretly working on an Improbability Drive?)

I don't think anyone really believes abstinence-only propaganda works. I suspect that Mr. Horn (is that his real name?) and all his friends are just trying to pull down a couple more years of semi-legitimate salary before the administration gets run out of town on a rail.

less access to birth control (pre and post shag), yes, probably a partial cause.

but don't discount the many of us women in our 20s have enough financial security to actually CHOOSE TO HAVE KIDS ON OUR OWN!!!! yes, believe it or not, some of us prefer to parent without a partner. and are lucky enough to be able to do it on our own.

hmmm, i may be on to something. maybe those nice folks in red should focus on increasing the income disparity between men and women even more, before all us 20-something women get too uppity and independent.

aureliana

At the ripe ol' age of 29, all the research I'm reading is telling me that my ovaries are starting to shrivel and deteriorate AS WE SPEAK. It's enough to make me want to eschew condoms and start popping out babies ASAP before my wrinkly old uterus and cracked eggs are too weak to beget offspring. You know, that apparently happens around age 35 these days.

I don't understand! Should I or shouldn't I have children right away? They want me to wait until after I'm 30 to have sex? Or kids? You know, in China, you're not supposed to have kids until you're 30. Yeah, I went there. We're getting to be like the Chinese government.

Oh, no, I di'in't.

I want the federal government to formulate guidelines wherein Republican politicians are mandated to sit through lectures about not having sex outside of their marriages, not writing puerile sex trash (Lynne Cheney, I'm looking at YOU!), no one-handed typing of salacious emails to underage pages and no strangling their mistresses half to death.

Oh, and no "party of moral values" claim may be made by anyone who has done any of the above listed things or who has divorced and remarried.

I already know how to be abstinent

I mean that warning on the cigarette pack and that "just say no" thing has worked great because we live in a drugfree and smoke free country - right?

so adults shoud jump right aboard the sex-free bandwagon -

right?

Ms. Traister writes, "It's the only chance we have to get these monkeys out of power, out of our government agencies, and away from our bodies and our children."

Speaking for monkeys everywhere, I must take offense at this comparison. We are, by and large, caring primates. (OK, some of us fling our own feces for amusement, but how different is that from the reality TV that you humans so crave?)

A million of us with a million typewriters are going to re-write Shakespeare someday. Please be nice.