June 23rd, 2009 / 12:25 pm
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This would be comical if not for the fact that these people have been teaching–or not teaching, more accurately–young Americans about sex. And then there are the assorted ridiculous sex-scare policy decisions–like the FDA holding up over-the-counter status for emergency contraception out of fear that it would make young women promiscuous or even lead to teens forming “sex-based cults.”

Jessica Valenti, author of The Purity Myth, takes on The Virginity Movement over at The Nation.

4 Comments

  1. June 23rd, 2009 / 4:56 pm Nathan Tyree—

      Sex based Cults sound fun

  2. June 23rd, 2009 / 12:56 pm Nathan Tyree—

      Sex based Cults sound fun

  3. June 23rd, 2009 / 5:40 pm Gene Morgan—

      The whole abstinence-only deal loses credibility without attractive people in charge. It’s like a man with deformed hands talking about how dumb handshakes are.

  4. June 23rd, 2009 / 1:40 pm Gene Morgan—

      The whole abstinence-only deal loses credibility without attractive people in charge. It’s like a man with deformed hands talking about how dumb handshakes are.