“That approval was required as part of a law, HB 1069”
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I vaguely remember the "sex ed" video our Catholic elementary school showed as an optional parent/kid evening event. The most direct it got about sex was a line drawing of a cow and a bull, then a dotted line arrow appeared from the bull's crotch area to the cow's, as the narrator said, "The male inserts his penis into the vagina of the female..." then stuff about the sperm fertilizing the egg. We were left completely clueless until we figured out the details by trial and error in high school.
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If you don’t teach your kids, life will, and experience isn’t nearly so patient nor kind.
Also if we could please stop obsessing with children and sex in these regressive states.
Removing the anatomy portion of sex ed is absurd, but we'll just file it under the same "everything I don't like is porn" reasoning they've been using. And at least I can understand how someone can think that teaching about birth control only encourages sex.
But what the actual fuck can anyone say to defend removing any discussion about consent‽ I honestly can't understand it. There's literally no reason not to cover it unless you object to the idea that rape and molestation are bad.
What's next, teaching kids that strangers in vans have the best candy? That adults will often reward those who give special favors? The importance of keeping uncomfortable experiences a secret?
The idea is probably that there is nothing to consent to if you are supposed to practice abstinence.
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They don't believe women and children (and immigrants, and people with the wrong skin colour, and insufficiently wealthy people, and people who have different opinions than theirs, and people who work for them, and anyone but themselves, really) have the right or even ability to consent (or rather not consent) to anything (or any other right, really; just lots and lots of duties), simple as that, and will see any lack of consent (or anything else they perceive as an undeserved privilege, like claiming human rights) as a form of disrespect and even theft (in their worldview there's only so much rights, happiness, wellbeing and whatnot to go around, so if anyone else has any they're clearly stealing them from those who actually deserve them).
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I imagine that Florida is to Americans, what America is to the rest of the world.
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And what earth is to the rest of the Galaxy
And what the galaxy Is to the local cluster
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Comprehensive sex education prevents more abortions than bans. I know this. You know this. And red states know this. Their bans have nothing to do with protecting life. It's all about reintroducing women suffrage.
Suffrage means the right to vote. Women suffrage is a Good Thing, and can't be reintroduced because it already exists in the US.
I think they meant "women's suffering"
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I used to think, 'oh, people against sex ed just don't understand the good things it does! Later first pregnancies, protection from abuse, std prevention...if they understood, of course they'd be on board!' Haha, oh younger me.
I still do think there are lots of people who come around, if some source they trust reaches them, but I was mistaken to think certain other people were actually against child abuse and teenage pregnancy.
30 .... shit 40 years ago when I was a kid ... sex education came from kids who were one or two years older than you ... hustler magazine and porn videos.
I think I was about 20 before I properly understood what sex was and I had to learn it all on my own.
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The worst thing I ever read about the issues about destroying sexual education is that it also leaves children unable to actually describe any abuse, because they don't know what's going on, what anything is called, and what is and isn't a "good" touch.
I'm not saying Florida Republicans are in any way wanting that outcome, but you have to at least wonder why they're so concerned about this.
I'm saying this is exactly the outcome Republicans want.