Texas Showcases The Inherent Stupidity Of Abstinence Programs

The state leads nation in abstinence education dollars but high schoolers are sweaty touch monkeys.

"AUSTIN – Texas spent a nation-high $17 million last year for abstinence education programs that continue to stir debate about whether classes promoting virginity before marriage work in public schools.
Federal statistics in June showed that 52.9 percent of Texas students in ninth through 12th grades had sexual intercourse, compared with 47.8 nationally. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also reported that Texas youths are less likely to use condoms.
Public schools in Texas are not required to offer sex education, but those that do must make the lessons abstinence-focused. Instructions about condoms are couched in terms of how often they fail, according to state law."

Just like DARE, or zero tolerance, abstinence based sex education is a stupidly rigid failure, a religiously based authoritarian wet dream of control. Most kids will laugh at it and proceed to do what all normal kids will do.