The Purity Myth
““She told us if we did it and were caught, we could face fines, probation,and possibly jail time,” Jeniann, now sixteen, emailed me.“She said it had to be illegal because premarital sex undermines the fam- ily, which is a necessary thing in society.”Morgan Dickens, a twenty-two-year-old woman I met while visiting Cornell University in upstate New York, told me that at her San Antonio, Tex- as, high school, teachers weren’t even allowed to mention words that related to anything but abstinence.“O...ur biology teacher told us she couldn’t say anything about birth con- trol when a girl asked how it worked.” Dickens also recalled that a student in her health class was actually kicked out of the room and asked to sit outside because he mentioned something about STIs and using a condom.Many of the young people I’ve spoken to—whether via email, through Feministing.com, or on college campuses—have told me how abstinence programs use fear- and shame-based tactics to spread their misinformation.MoreLess
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