more on anti-porn hero Judith Reisman's anti choice, pro religious right agenda

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12. Only reason why people can't . . .

. . . immediately see the idiocy behind abstinence-only eduction is because it's sex. Give the same approach to almost anything else that has safety issues and consequences and you can see how dumb the whole idea is.

When they tell adolescents to just not have sex, but choose other activity, it's like the real life version of that old joke: "What's the difference between a hamburger and a blow job?" On some level, mentally healthy people with normal intelligence know that one can't be replaced with the other. They both fulfill different needs, and contain different pleasures. Adults might pretend you can for the sake of keeping teens sinless and out of trouble. Teenagers might try to go along with it because they're modeling themselves on adults (or their model of an adult), and maybe they're still in their sexual latency and don't understand the drives they're about to face, but studies are showing that they're left ill-prepared for having sex, with the exact consequences that abstinence-only was supposed to avoid.