Health

Thirty Something Without the Sex

by clorenz1 | November 29, 2006 at 10:49 am

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This is so awesome! Imagine everyone and everything you have ever seen relating to the age range of 19-29, and then remove sex.

Writing comedy is very difficult, and people work their whole lives just to come up with a few priceless lines. And then the Bush White House came along, and started selling off material wholesale.

"They've stepped over the line of common sense," said James Wagoner, president of Advocates for Youth, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit that supports sex education. "To be preaching abstinence when 90% of people are having sex is in essence to lose touch with reality. It's an ideological campaign. It has nothing to do with public health."

Abstinence education programs, which have focused on preteens and teens, teach that abstaining from sex is the only effective or acceptable method to prevent pregnancy or disease. They give no instruction on birth control or safe sex.

The National Center for Health Statistics says well over 90% of adults ages 20-29 have had sexual intercourse.

But Wade Horn, assistant secretary for children and families at the Department of Health and Human Services, said the revision is aimed at 19- to 29-year-olds because more unmarried women in that age group are having children.