“One popular classroom exercise, for example, employs Scotch Tape to demonstrate how premarital sex can make girls dirty. A teacher holds up a clear strip of tape, meant to represent a girl, in front of the class. The teacher then puts the strip of tape, adhesive side down, on the arm of a boy in the class, to symbolize his sexual relationship with the girl. The teacher rips off the tape (signifying the breakup, apparently) and holds it up again for the class to look at. Students are meant to see that the strip of tape—the girl—has picked up all kinds of dirt and hair from the boy’s arm and is no longer clean. Then, when the teacher tries to stick the same strip to another boy’s arm, he or she notes that it doesn’t stick—they can’t bond! To end things with a bang, the abstinence educator makes a remark about the girl’s being “used” and therefore unable to have strong future relationships.
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Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth (via wishful-sinful)
This was done in my “sex ed” class about 4 times in my grade school career.
(via the-sexpert)
WHO DOES THAT. Ugh. My faith in humanity is constantly diminishing.
(via becauseiamawoman)
Abstinence metaphors are so outrageous. But this one is new to me.
My favorite was a church pamphlet that likened premartial sex to squeezing a banana to mush, which, frankly, sounds pretty painful.
(via ftmfeminist)
ugh, how disgusting. the one metaphor I got, as a sophomore in college (less shocking when you figure it was a private catholic college) was that sex was like a party dress! and if you wore your party dress too often, it would become less special!
and this was in philosophy 101. a superb use of my parents’ money, really.
(via deltumbles)
(Source: passions-misgivings-wants, via deltumbles)
