We all know that abstinence only is a big fat joke. It is the opposite of education. Education is about teaching people. Abstinence-only is about hiding information and doling out little tidbits of inflated scare-tactic stats in order to help “support” the argument that sex is best saved for holy matrimony and any other way is a big fat life threatening sin. Well guys, it’s no surprise that it really doesn’t work. In fact, it’s the opposite of working. It anti-works. Take for example the school system I work in. Abstinence only to the core. Yet when I judged senior projects, one of the girls did hers on teen-pregnancy. She herself had a baby at 16 and had interviewed upward 20 girls from our high school that had kids. Over 20. Over 20. Over 20. And when I asked about her about her pregnancy and what she had found from the girls she interviewed and how they got pregnant, she said 2 very poignant things. That they either did not know about methods of birth control or they did, but their boyfriends pressured them to not use it. Hello folks! Don;t you think that ACTUAL SEX EDUCATION might help these girls?

Of course, I have my own theories. The county I work in is predominantly African American. It should come as no surprise that the pregnancy rate is higher among black students than white students. I honestly, in my heart of hearts, believe that White America (ya know, those who run almost everything) isn’t concerned about black unwed teenage mothers because a) it’s what they’d expect and b) it’s what they want. If all those single black girls are too busy raising kids and all the black men are in jail, than they won’t be moving into white neighborhoods, working at our businesses, and dating our precious kids. Of course, they do have black friends, though, but they just “act so white.”

Truly, I think that keeping sex ed out of schools hurts the poor and colored populations more and is part of an elaborate network designed to keep the bulk of the African American population down.