Day: May 11, 2005

I've had a headache since I woke up this morning. Katy and I slept poorly last night for reasons unclear. I woke up with a pain right behind my right eye, my normal spot for a headache. Earlier this morning, it was messing with my tear ducts, a sign that it's going to be a nasty one. Advil helped for a while, but it's now come back with a vengeance. I just took some more, but I'm going to be completely useless for the rest of the day. Having throbbing pain on half of your face really doesn't help to make you productive.

No, it's not a porn flick. It's a show I watched last night on TV. It was a documentary about teens in texas (ya don't say!) and the growing popularity of “purity pledges” – vows to remain virgins until marriage.

I was watching that and I was was angry. Angry at the lies being told to the youth of today. Did you know that latex condoms are useless because they're synthetic, and the fibers of latex are porous and will let spem and viruses go through? Neither did I. Apparently, abstinence is the only way to be safe. Oh, that that's what God wants too, so there you go.

With scare tactics and misinformation, added to the fact that it's ILLEGAL to teach sex ed in public schools, it's scarcely a wonder that Texas (and most of the bible belt, actually) has the highest rate of teen pregnancy and that ghonorrea is rampant. And don't even get me started on “technical” virginity… Then, of course, there's the issue that lesbian and gay teens face: how can you be abstinent until marriage if you're not legally allowed to marry? Well, never mind, gays are evil and will go straight to hell anyway, so who cares if they're pure?

What really got me riled though was a couple of teens who got married, but since sex was this whole taboo, they had no idea of what to do with their bodies. So who did they go see for advice? Their pastor, of course, who told them that men are microwaves and women are slow cookers.

Makes perfect sense.