Saturday, Feb. 19, 2005
Correct me if I'm wrong, BUT....
I have never heard of anything so incorrect before in my life....
href="http://livejournal.com/users/madgracevane">Candace
Okay, I'm online googling for SOMETHING for a gift for
comes up. Just for laughs, I decided to go and check it out.
I skim the site (I like the part about how to kiss someone with braces, it made me smile)
and then come across this:
Also, since the AIDS virus has been found in the saliva of people with AIDS,it could be transmitted by kissing someone who has the disease,
Okay, where did these people go to school? You can't get AIDs from kissing, now can you?
If so, wouldn't there have been this giant newsbreak? I could see Tom Browkaw coming on
air- "CAUTION! Careful who you share a soda with! Careful around those public water
fountains- you could get AIDS." Katie Couric sans-smile, "A new report from the department
of health shows a critical link between human saliva and HIV. It is now advised that you
carry a can of new and improved anti-viral lysol around with you for life."
Wasn't there some large report not too long ago about the Bush Administration's
pro-abstinence plan? Weren't these programs largely incorrect? I decided to look at some
government-funded sexual education sites, and did indeed learn a lot more than I ever did from dear
old Mr. Georgeoff. I learned-
- Masterbation can get you pregnent.
- ten-twelve weeks after conception, a fetus can both see and hear
- 50% of homosexual males are HIV positive
- Similiarly, 41% of heterosexual females are HIV positive.
- isolation, jealousy, poverty, heartbreak, substance abuse, unstable long-term commitments, sexual violence, embarrassment, depression, and personal disappointment can all be elimenated by practicing abstinence
- Condoms do absolutely nothing to eliminate the risk of HIV/AIDS and other venerial diseases
Do I really need to continue?
And I realized something- this is what I was taught in school. I remember being tested over AIDS, and realizing that nearly fifty percent of women were HIV positive. I remember looking around the class of nearly 30, exactly twenty of whom were toting ovaries. I remember thinking, "there are ten girls with aids in here, and they don't even know it." Now, I was a sceptic. I knew not to take these things seriously. I knew that when Mr. Georgeoff, a bumbling idiot of a man standing at six feet tall with barely enough brains to tackle teenaged boys as a football coach, told me that I urinated out of my clitoris- that I was in for a real treat.
I realize that people are just trying to stress the importance of absinence, but the costs both monetarily and emotionally of a teen pregnancy or VD are a lot for anyone to bare.
(by the way, the kissing site can be found at http://www.partyhearty.com/kissingadvice.html )
theparisian at 1:38 a.m.