WriterAlexis Thousands of school districts have been removing books from the library that even mention any character that is gay. One of my pet projects last year was to make book requests that contain age appropriate LGBTQIA+ character depictions in a couple of the libraries near me.
Remember, if any kids come out because those books told them that gay people are people, too, that means you made them gay. As long as they are in the closet and in denial, full of self-loathing for any queer thought they have, that still counts as nice and straight.
WriterAlexis Now this could be the only website in the world where people would seriously argue that it is a lack of chastity belts contributing to teen pregnancy,
I mean, they are a lot more difficult to ignore than something someone said in a classroom.
WriterAlexis the orthodox view is that it comes down to your gym teacher not showing you how to put a condom on a banana. Even that I find reductive (we have youtube these days!)
I do not think it is the practical aspect of how to put on a condom that abstinence-only lacks over contraception-inclusive classes, but the various factors around it - presenting a variety of contraceptives, their method of operation and effectiveness, encouraging teens to think about how they can have sex with mitigated risk (the abstinence-only approach presenting health and pregnancy risk as unavoidable and, misleadingly, unmanagable), and surrounding factors like accessibility of birth control. Wealth surely is also a factor in that, but probably one of many.
