The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy did a survey of 1800 people from ages 18-29 and found out that there are still a lot of misinformed idiots out there. Personally, I think misinformation about sex is pretty rad. It spices things up a little. If 30% dont’ really know how to use a condom and %18 think you’re much less likely to get pregnant if you have sex standing up that’s at least 97.2 people having a sexy goddam night. What’s even funnier about today’s ignorance are the arguments people are having about the causes of such misinformation. Some are arguing that it’s due to the increase of abstinence-only sex educations, which they say do not adequately prepare people for how to properly protect themselves when they are having sex. Others (and I’ll bet you can guess who) are saying that there’s simply not enough abstinence-only programs. This last argument seems to me to fall under the broken-net theory of sexual education. A few of the little buggers are getting through and causing a whole lot of problems.
Among some of the more fanciful beliefs out there:
- 28 percent of men incorrectly believe they will get extra protection from wearing two condoms at once
- 10 respondents said it doesn’t matter whether people use birth control, believing that people get pregnant when it’s their “time.”
- 12 percent of both men and women believe that sexting can get you pregnant but only if the girl accidently sits on her mobile phone while driving (something to do with the motion of the proverbial ocean).
- 13 percent believe sex with an ex is more likely to get you pregnant, unless the full moon is out, the lights are off, and they are really just good friends now with some occasional benefits.
(These last two statistics may or may not have been invented by this author as a matter of practical embellishment.)
Myself, I blame the economy. Since fewer young adults can afford their own cars, fewer are listing to the radio around 10pm pacific time, meaning they aren’t able to listen to the show Love Line with Dr. Dru Pinsky. Even though I had a pretty great sexual education by the time I was 13 or 14 I am confident that the ten years I subsequently spent listening to that radio show cleared up and flushed out all kinds of mysteries and gave me a comforting sense that I was not the only teen out there trying to have sex with someone under 5’2 (since it’s harder to get pregnant if you are lifted off the ground in the shower).
(Please submit all responses to this post in the form of racy, mobile-phone photos. I promise not to let anyone sit on them.)
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Love it! Nice work.
Your’s is the intellgniet approach to this issue.
You’re welcome. Share the good word.
Or just take the word, and have sex with it. Either way.
gosh, i can’t tell you how many times i’ve had to teach a boy how to push the right buttons in the heat of the moment. seriously….they don’t teach how to please a girl in school anymore?!? ::shakes head:: shame on them!
A little direction never hurt anyone.