It's all about the terminology

[fredericks]

The Feds push the abstinence message to the older folk. Great. Now, instead of having to 'fess up to the driest dry spell this side of the Sahara, I can claim I'm being a good citizen...? How about we work on taking away some of the stigma surrounding sex and educating the public about what diseases are out there?

No? Too hard? Bastids.

Comments

[sternel.livejournal.com]

What the fuck. I'm a consenting adult, get the fuck out of my bedroom, King George.

Time to fucking emigrate.

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

The imagery in your comment beats cold showers hands-down.

[drjayphd.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if I should be:
* amused that they're trying so hard and/or think this'll accomplish anything
* pissed that they want to tell me what to do in the sack (see also: it's my body, I'll do what I want) and what's next, C. Everett Koop telling us you never go ass-to-mouth?

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

Amused and active usually works. Voting and what what.

C. Everett Koop...sweet Jesus.

STD's?

[fireslide.livejournal.com]

Is that a snappy little STD reference in your userpic? "OH SNAP sneak attack"?

Re: STD's?

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

It was meant to be a reference to the "sneakiness" of the conservative Christian agenda - the abstinence message seems to be geared towards preventing single motherdom than disease prevention - but the STD tie-in works as well. :)

[theoban.livejournal.com]

*grumble grumble* let me tell YOU about dry spells *grumble more grumble*

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

You're in FRANCE. I thought sex was like Evian over there or some junk.

[theoban.livejournal.com]

Only if you're a bastard - French men are pretty much dicks.

[rwarner.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

How much longer til Dubya and his cartel get tossed out on their collective asses?

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

The scary part - will we get the conservative Christian point of view out once Dubya's out of office, or will "we" (*ahem*) elect someone in the same vein? One of the most encouraging things I saw at the last election was a pair of youth "thugged out" kids walking into their respective polling booths. Hopefully things will change but it'll take people raising their voices.

[rwarner.livejournal.com]

What concerns me is the many similarities that the US is beginning to show to the late Roman Empire. Someplace I read a comparison of this current Congress with the Senate of Nero and Caligula, and while we don't have a horse in the US Senate, there certainly is enough corruption and influence peddling on Capital Hill to make anyone sick.

Are we due to have a big decline a la Rome? Hopefully enough people get upset with the way things are going to make some kind of change before things get to that point.

[emily-goddess.livejournal.com]

But if we tell people about sex, they'll get all horny and go have it. Before they're married! And then all the girls will get pregnant, and have abortions, which are immoral and wrong. And then God will lift his protective veil from the U.S. and allow The Terrorists to attack us again. Is that what you want, America-hater?

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

*grin* You know, when Vamp!Harry says that it's so darn cute...!

Don't you love when your government thinks you're an idiot?

[emily-goddess.livejournal.com]

"'Love' is such a strong word. I'm used to it - like cafeteria food, or the constant threat of terrorism."

[/Scrubs]

[aniseastra.livejournal.com]

What's so horrible about children being born out of wedlock, anyway? I just hate how the followers one religion get to dictate their moralities to the rest of us in this fucked-up country.

Now I'm inspired to go out and be as promiscuous as possible (with protection, of course) just so I can be a bad citizen to show that simply being promiscuous doesn't lead to ruin...

[1x2foralways.livejournal.com]

Great to see our hard earned tax dollars are going towards something productive.

[1x2foralways.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I was being sarcastic. It's hard to tell sometimes with me. :P

[xioley.livejournal.com]

Fine, fine, now I'll go abstinent. ...Riiiiiiiight.

Like the article said, total detachment from reality.