Teenage Texan Virgins

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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.

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Comments (12) on “Teenage Texan Virgins”

  1. 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?

    I knew that in South Africa condoms couldn't protect you against AIDS, but I didn't know they couldn't protect you against pregnancy in the US. Veeery informative. Ugh.

    I feel bad for these kids because they're set up to fail in so many ways. Can't have sex before marriage? Then get married early, not that you'll know what to do once you are. And then you married too early and it doesn't work out so you have to feel bad about divorce.

    (http://livejournal.com/users/suzn)

  2. And don't even get me started on “technical” virginity…

    I actually had a conversation with one of the busty redhead's friends, and she said to me, “well I haven't really had sex… anal sex doesn't count”
    WTF?!? ANAL SEX doesn't count as sex? Mmmmokay.

    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?

    I'm not pure?!? But hey, I live here where I can get married. And I'm not religious, so if I don't believe in hell, I can't end up going there ;D

    (http://livejournal.com/users/eniran)

  4. you're ok with being gay, and I love you for it. Just imagine what it must be like for those teens in the US though, with all the mixed messages of “being your own person” and “big melting pot” on one side, and then the whole christian fundamentalism that's growing thesse days telling them they're going to hell…

    (http://livejournal.com/users/talisker)

  5. Admittedly it would be much harder for me, I'm guessing anyway, if my family was very religious.

    But then again, Danielle's family is very religious, and her mum is one of the happiest people now that I can be who I am with them. But she is more into the whole be nice to other people and do good things and it's all good, rather than the whole the bible says this, and that's the LAW!

    But that's when you take the smallest thing about a religion and blow it up into something huge. What ever happened to the do unto others thing? Live and let live as long as you aren't hurting anyone…

    (http://livejournal.com/users/eniran)

  6. Those 'purity pledges' are a sick joke. They prove that appearances and illusions are more important than reality to the people who advocate them.

    …men are microwaves and women are slow cookers.

    Look, padre, if you're too much of a prude to say “penis” and “vagina” then at least have the sense to use metaphors that are useful and relevant.

    (http://livejournal.com/users/ultimategirl)

  8. It always amaze me to see that in the $tates it's OK to see extreme violence with a lot of blood on TV, but if we almost see a nipple a fraction of a second, it's shocking,scandalous and immoral (the “Janet Nipplegate”)…

    God bless America!!! (after all, God is “American”)

    (http://livejournal.com/users/oraboras)

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