Coulrophobia is fear of clowns. What’s fear of abstinence clowns?

Coulterphobia?

Had I been subjected to such claptrap and codswallop when I was in high school I would have walked right the hell out of assembly.

And my parents would have backed me 100%.

And having a clown teach sex education is just like well… having a clown teach sex education.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: the fact that these idiots think a clown is going to convince of teenagers anything, let alone that sex is icky and evil, demonstrates more perfectly than anything else just how tragically out of touch RWA’s are with youth culture.

I had this conversation with my girlfriend the other day. She thinks that abstinence-only sex ed is the best way forward. I had to rain on her parade with the Mississippi numbers and that kids are having sex already. She said they need to become enlightened that was her whole defense. I pointed out again that kids are having sex already and that through real education on having sex openly that after a generation or 8 that they will be enlightened that there will be no need for abortion for unwanted pregnancy because people will know how to protect themselves from it. Of course abortion needs to stay legal. 
She tried to break up with me.. LOL
But then I would not let it go until she finally gave up…

If teens think that sex is like having a roid case swing a cinder block at their crotch, they’ll probably try to avoid it.  Of course, if they think that abstinence class involves a roid case swinging a cinder block toward some groins, they’ll avoid those too.  And you know what kids do when they cut class.

It’s a real problem.  Almost as though abstinence classes are completely counterproductive…

(Seriously, though, if that was my kid being menaced by a huge dude swinging a cinder block around there would be lawsuits.)

She tried to break up with me.. LOL
But then I would not let it go until she finally gave up…

You sound like a real catch.

@ Nixxx…..ewww!

teac, the world would be a better place if more people used the phrase “claptrap and codswallop”. I salute you sir, or perhaps ma’am.

I’m with you Jrod, if someone had a cinder block over my kid, there would be HELL to pay.  Has anyone (with a brain)  thought “hey this could go horribly, horribly wrong and someone might be seriously hurt?”

There’s a 97% chance that the cinder block won’t hit anyone.

Wow, abstinence AND clowns? Two great tastes that taste great together.

Of course, all this characterization of girls as “asexual passive beings” ignores that ACTUAL asexual women are still humans with agency, and are usually not so much concerned with staying pure as with just not being made to do shit we don’t want to do. Which for most of us, means never getting married at all, because having a ring on our finger doesn’t magically make us more interested in sex… and if we’re not interested, WE CAN SAY NO. Period. Assuming asexual women are “supposed” to get married and have kids—which means having sex—even if they don’t *want* to have sex, is setting up your God-sanctioned Ideal Family Structure as rape, pure & simple.

I might be asexual but I do not like being de-sexualized. My lack of interest matters to me, and I will not sacrifice it jumping through stupid hoops for wingnut fundies who tell me what I’m “supposed” to want and not want under whatever arbitrary circumstances. It’s dehumanizing when they do it to sexual women, and it’s dehumanizing when they do it to me.

@ Nixxx…..ewww!

I second.  Nixxx, it might surprise you to learn that it doesn’t help your feminist street cred when you talk about how pro-choice and pro-sex-ed you are, then tell us how you refused to let your girlfriend break up with you.

Nixxx is clearly a troll.

Was that kid strapped to the table or was I seeing things?  I bet the parental consent/waiver form did not include “Please initial here: ____ My child may be placed in restraints and put at risk of having his or her groin crushed by a goon wielding a cinder block.”

What percentage of high school girls are having sex because they enjoy it? What percent of them are having orgasms when they have sex?

Based on having been at one time a teenage girl ... and having friends who were also teenage girls… I would say most of them are doing it because they enjoy it. Why do we have this stupid ass idea that women, especially young ones, don’t have sexual drives and only “do it” at the behest of selfish males who want to get off? The percentage who have orgasms is probably lower, since its a time of exploration of sexuality and what “turns one on” so to speak, but why the hell is that a measure of anything?

Having sex before you are married is just like juggling machetes!

By which you mean AWESOME?

So the lesson is don’t have PiV sex until you’ve practiced a lot and are ready for it.

And of course you also have to wonder just what happens to those machetes when you get married—do they all suddenly turn flaccid and non-dangerous or something?

I’ve seen several people point out that juggling machetes would be much safer if you put the hilts on them, just as sex is much safer if you put a condom on the penis.  I think someone who has access to machetes should make a parody of the first clown video.  Juggling skills aren’t even required.  Juggle the machetes and drop them, and the “victim” will still be just fine.  Then post the video on YouTube.  I would do it myself, but I am unusually unskilled in video-making for my age.  Also I don’t have any machetes.

He refers to oral contraception as “the wheely thingy” and suggests that they are too complicated for young women too use properly.

This is especially offensive.  It’s like he’s telling girls not to worry their pretty little heads over some mechanical device and just refuse sex completely until they are married, and then just let their husbands make the choice of when to have sex.  My theory is that the abstinence clown is too dumb to figure out how to take pills that are in a circle with complicated words like “Sunday” and “Monday” written beneath each pill.  And of course, being a conservative, he can’t admit that a female might understand something that he can’t.  I’ve been taking pills since I was 15 and I never had a problem with reading comprehension.  They were less complicated than my asthma inhaler (which still wasn’t difficult).

@thecynicalromantic -

I registered just to say *thank you so much*! Sure, abstinence-only ed bad, making girls out to be passive receptacles of guys’ sexual desires with no real stake in the proceedings bad, but do we really have to call it making them asexual? When us actual asexual people still have our experiences and very existence denied at every turn? When abstinence-only ed hurts us too, even if in different ways? (Your point about rape is just… yes, *this*.)

I often run searches for the term “asexual” on blogs I plan to participate in, to gauge how unsafe it will be for me there. Usually almost all of what comes up is along these lines - “asexual” being made to mean “desexualised, silenced, stripped of agency” - I’m lucky if there’s a single hit talking about actual asexual people. I am getting very, very tired of it.