{"id":90,"date":"2011-03-14T00:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T00:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/badcatholic\/2011\/03\/my-sex-education\/"},"modified":"2011-03-14T00:13:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T00:13:00","slug":"my-sex-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/badcatholic\/2011\/03\/my-sex-education.html","title":{"rendered":"My Sex Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u2026was taught by Planned Parenthood.\u00a0Which is funny, because they\u2019re stupid.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ui18.gamespot.com\/1553\/getattachment_2.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/ui18.gamespot.com\/1553\/getattachment_2.gif\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p>In walks the lady with her box of condoms, handing out surveys. I forget the exact questions, except that they all had yes or no answers, and \u2013 sadly \u2013 no answer entitled, \u201cwhat the hell is wrong with you, that\u2019s the dumbest thing anyone\u2019s ever asked me in my life.\u201d So I was forced to write it in. Wait, one question I do remember: \u201cDo you think birth control education will reduce abortions?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O.K. Clearly these surveys don\u2019t have any bearing on Planned Parenthood, they were just designed to get us to think. Or laugh. So this question was created for the sole purpose of us saying, \u201cAh! That\u2019s why a crusty old nurse is here talking about \u201cmaximizing sexual experience.\u201d She\u2019s here to help reduce abortions!\u201d Not to create a climate of promiscuity that results in the big business she works for profiting from unwanted pregnancies. Nah. They\u2019re the good guys. Right?<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t3.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT4t6OP1VfNFOMX4WynlgxTFFM_2nSEF88HgdYxdGIL0CIIulaE\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/t3.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT4t6OP1VfNFOMX4WynlgxTFFM_2nSEF88HgdYxdGIL0CIIulaE\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0This is funny because \u2013 in<br>somewhat of a developing theme \u2013 they<br>are stupid.\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Wrong. Luckily <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/%3Ciframe%20title=%22YouTube%20video%20player%22%20width=%22425%22%20height=%22349%22%20src=%22http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eAJexmBX5lI%22%20frameborder=%220%22%20allowfullscreen%3E%3C\/iframe%3E\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">I could fill in the \u2018no\u2019 box for that question quite confidently.<\/a>\u00a0The old women then proceeded to inform the class of boys that their penis sizes were normal, which is a fantastic way of making everyone feel abnormal, and me to question what exactly the size of her salary was, and whether that was normal, to be paid to tell 15 year olds that you are totally fine with their penises. She then proceeded to the good ol\u2019, look! condoms-fit-over-my-arm-without-breaking routine, which \u2013 in her and her\u00a0institution\u2019s\u00a0defense \u2013 looked like the best part of her day. It was awkward \u2013 then \u2013 when the condom broke with a snap over her hand. She turned red and muttered something about it being past the condom\u2019s expiration date, which was REALLY AWKWARD because she had priorly said that the condom was new. She threw it out and didn\u2019t try another one. Several bros in the back sobered. So that was nice.<\/p>\n<p>Now I knew that Planned Parenthood\u2019s condoms were ranked as some of the least effective ever made, because hey, something\u2019s gotta keep the customers coming back, but this was funny because\u2026well because they\u2019re stupid guys, I can\u2019t help that. So there I was, being told that\u00a0masturbation\u00a0was healthy, that pornography helps marriages, reading over a list of the uncountable amount strings and bags and walls and chemicals and metals and hoops that women were morally and\u00a0civilly\u00a0responsible for maintaining for the sake of the well-being of their boyfriends, when it was mentioned, with all the weight of authority, that most NFP methods had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creightonmodel.com\/effectiveness.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">60-70% success rate<\/a>. I pointed out, with all the weight of a teenager, that <i>that<\/i> percentage was pretty much the success rate for having sex whenever you wanted. To which I was given the \u201c<i>exaaactly<\/i>\u201d look, which further convinced me that, you guessed it, they\u2019re stupid.<\/p>\n<p>The whole affair \u2013 which if it weren\u2019t so late I might give more examples from \u2013 was hilarious. I\u2019m just not a guy that goes into righteous indignation shocks. Which I\u2019m thankful for, because subverting the dominant paradigm, to borrow a phrase from Shea, requires a certain ease \u2013 no one listens the kid foaming at the mouth and quoting the Bible. Rather, the whole situation gave me great hope. Surely, surely, surely others would see how\u00a0completely\u00a0dumb the culture of death is. Surely they\u2019d notice that all the videos and educational presentations we watched were from the seventies and early eighties, fuzzy and out of place on the school\u2019s smartboards, full of big sweaters and stupidity. Surely they\u2019d realize that, if this is how Planned Parenthood wins, defeat is far sweeter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p>And not stupid.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3060433030054060305-1921703890381557476?l=badcatholicblog.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026was taught by Planned Parenthood.\u00a0Which is funny, because they\u2019re stupid. In walks the lady with her box of condoms, handing out surveys. 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