Frenching Gives HIV

I guess you learn something new everyday. Or rather, we try to teach our kids something new that is completely false to scare them out of ever doing anything remotely sexual.

Los Angeles Unified leaders said Thursday they have grave concerns about the conservative tone of a textbook being proposed for ninth-grade health classes.

The book, called "Health," and its supplemental material, published by Glencoe/McGraw-Hill in 2005, lacks information about birth control, tells students that abstinence is the only way to protect their reputations and lists open-mouth kissing as a way of transmitting HIV.

This is pretty insane, but alas, sex education has taken on a tone of complete suppression of feelings rather than a way to learn how to be safe and healthy. As always, this deals with the greater argument, of weather we should completely ignore and scare children from having sex, or if we should equip them with the proper knowledge since it is quite likely that they may be in a sexual situation. The choices: denying reality or accepting it and moving forward. To me, reality is hard to escape.

Full Article at Los Angeles Daily News