\u201cYour body is a wrapped lollipop. When you have sex with a man, he unwraps your lollipop and sucks on it. It may feel great at the time, but, unfortunately, when he\u2019s done with you, all you have left for your next partner is a poorly wrapped, saliva-fouled sucker.\u201d<\/em> \u201cYour body is a wrapped lollipop. When you have sex with a man, he unwraps your lollipop and sucks on it. It may feel great at the time, but, unfortunately, when he\u2019s done with you, all you have left for your next partner is a poorly wrapped, saliva-fouled sucker.\u201dI cringed behind the wheel, appalled at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
<\/em>I cringed behind the wheel, appalled at the words I heard coming from my audio copy of \u201cHalf the Sky\u201d as authors Sheryl WuDunn and Nicholas Kristoff discussed this statement uttered by Darren Washington, an abstinence educator, at the Eighth Annual Abstinence Clearinghouse Conference.<\/span><\/span>
<\/span>Sadly, it wasn\u2019t too far off many Christian messages I\u2019ve received about sex.<\/span>
<\/span><\/span>Growing up, we didn\u2019t talk about sex in my family. Truth is, I kinda wish my parents did. Not in a lecturing way or in an embarrassing way incorporating stick figure drawings, but honest talk about human sexuality. When you give youth freedom and a framework for values that don\u2019t demand or shame, they are generally receptive to what you have to say.<\/span><\/span>
<\/span><\/span>According to the 2010 National Campaign report, eight in 10 teens (80 percent) say it would be much easier for teens to delay sexual activity and avoid teen pregnancy if they were able to have more open, honest conversations about these topics with their parents. Similarly, six in 10 teens (62 percent) wish they were able to talk more openly about relationships with their parents.<\/span><\/span>
<\/span><\/span>I remember first being presented with the birds and the bees in 6th-grade health class. I didn\u2019t quite understand it, but \u201cThe Miracle of Life\u201d video in 9th-grade biology class certainly helped clear up a few things. Then came my freshman year of college in which my Sexuality in a Diverse Society professor had the class write a list of as many words as we could think of for \u201cpenis\u201d and \u201cvagina.\u201d There were lots of giggles and guffaws, plus a few phrases I never thought to associate with human genitalia, leaving me utterly baffled and slightly disturbed.<\/span><\/span>
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