Sunday, January 04, 2009

Overpopulation

When I was in the South Carolina public school system we were required to take a class in health and sex education. When contraception came up in the curriculum (i'm not sure there was a set curriculum I think the teacher just made it up as she went along she did double as the culinary arts teacher) my teacher called in the reinforcements. A representative from some Christian organization came to our class and taught us about the various forms of birth control. She told us that they were ineffective and that abstinence was the best way to avoid unwanted preganancy. She also mentioned that the H.I.V. virus spontaneously arises when two homosexual men have sex with one another as God's punishment for their sin.

"Johns Hopkins researcher Janet Rosenbaum, who took a rigorous look at nearly 1,000 students. She compared teens who took a pledge of abstinence with teens of similar backgrounds and beliefs who didn't. She found absolutely no difference in their sexual behavior, or the age at which they began having sex, or the number of their partners.

In fact, the only difference was that the group that promised to remain abstinent was significantly less likely to use birth control, especially condoms, when they did have sex. The lesson many students seemed to retain from their abstinence-only program was a negative and inaccurate view of contraception." The Seatle Times

Humanity has a serious overpopulation problem. Maybe we should start taking contraception seriously.

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