
Be afraid. Be very, very afraid.
Christian comedian Keith Deltano has been performing at a number of high schools in Loudon County, Virginia this year with the intent of pushing abstinence-only education through comedy. How does he do this, do you ask? By dangling a cinderblock over a male students' crotch to demonstrate the ineffectiveness of condoms against HIV.
Because what's funnier than a brick possibly dropping on your dick?? Hahaha!! Heh.
UPDATE: Check out Deltano in action after the jump.
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All I can say to that is, WTF?!?! I read the article linked in the post and I couldn't tell if these are private or public schools - I'd be fuming mad if my tax dollars were paying for that, though! I had Family Life as sex ed, it was such a joke.
I tell you what, if someone did that to my son, I'd be suing for reckless endangerment and whatever else I could think of.
To say nothing of lying. Condoms do a much better job of protecting you against HIV than Christian comedians do of protecting you against falling cinder blocks.
*snort*
I just read the 2005 national school climate survey, (www.glsen.org) and shock and amazement, schools that teach abstinence only sex ed have a higher rate of homophobic, sexist, racist, and percieved-religion based harassment and assault... check out the survey if you have time.
It's as depressing as getting a cinderblock dropped on your dick.
ho ho ho ho, oh wow, nothing is more hilarious than misinformation! what could be funnier than a kid going out and having sex and not using a condom because he thinks it won't work . . . joke's on him! hehehehe.
god. what fucking assholes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiTj7Qi7_Ok
The horror. The horror.
We should make this a big issue and alert the media, they'd love doing a piece about a crazy guy with a cinder block.
Also, this is one of the cases when we can say "Won't someone think of those poor teenage boys?" and be serious.
Comedians are equivalent to educators now?
I don't care if you're funny as hell--show me some ****ing credentials, please.
Oh. My. Lord. I cannot believe kids are laughing at those horrible jokes! A dog is not a man - ZING! Take my wife - PLEASE! Nauseating. Does anyone know if he's going to public schools with this shit?
And they call us ball-busters.
Duh...Apparently he is.
Look for the birth rate to severely drop in Loudon County around 2020 if this keeps up.
That said, he's still better than Howie Mandel, although that blowing-up-the-latex-glove-that-was-over-his-head
gag was pretty badass from a sex-ed standpoint.
If he came to my high school last year, my friends and I would have laughed.
But not at the jokes. Mostly over the sweaty spazz-dance up there. I can already see Kendra's boyfriend mimicking it whenever condoms come up.
Sad. As an antidote, try the song abstain with me by Roy Zimmerman.
Is it wrong that although I've never heard of that song before, I can only imagine the title sung to the tune of Rod Stewart's "Stay with Me?"
Am I the only one who thought of this connection?
Except that when it's Will Arnett, it's meant to be parody.
That's just sick. Fear based forms of persuasion are not the best, in a practical or ethical sense. All he'll end up doing is encouraging kids to look for warning signs, not take safe measures. For that, you have to illustrate the positive benefits of practicing safe sex.
i was particularly struck by his phrasing when he said "them are the men." but i guess at least he was encouraging self love as demonstrated by the masturbatory nature of not only his infinite intro but also, and especially, the rap of his alter ego, crash.
besides the lie that this promotes (marital sex is safe sex), the poor kids who are HIV positive or have a family member who is. because according to this dude, you have sex with a condom outside of marriage, you get AIDS. and 'pussing sores on your buttocks.'
reality comedy indeed.
Hi. Long time lurker, first time poster.
The thing is i have never understood the whole "if you wait till marriage you won't get aids" bit. Even if you wait the person you marry could still be positive so how,in the end, did abstinance really help?
Also i had one of these types of lectures at my highschool(in Cananda) last year. And it was absolutly ridiculous. The woman was rambling on about how she had sex at 15, using condoms and the pill, got pregnant and had an abortion. And when she was 21 she had sex again, using a condom and the pill and spermicide, got pregnant yet again and had another abortion. As a result of all this she can no longer have children. She was telling us about how premartial sex ruined her life and how it WILL ruin yours. she was throwing around stats that were outrageous, like how condoms fail 10% of the time and how the pill fails 20-30%.I can tell you that none of us believed her. My friend asked her to provide us with the stats, and she only qouted how the church provided her with these stats.
Ok. Rant done.
Role playing ... how innovative.
I love how he busted out the handcuffs.
Those poor children.
And 52% (margin of error?!) of high school guys graduate and have not had sex?
I have a major problem with reinforcing peer pressure and "being a man" as good reasons to base one's sexual choices upon.
I would have certainly scoffed at a presenter like this as a high school student.
You know that statistic about 52% of guys being virgin is plain wrong.
He's obviously misinformed about the risks of getting AIDS/HIV. If he thinks marriage will protect someone from AIDS, he should tell that to large percentage of married women in Africa who have the virus.
This guy is a complete charlatan. His website has a whole section on how you can pay his fee through Title V Social Security Funding. What an ass.
The YouTube comments to this video are pretty hilarious.
Abstinence my ass- this guy is a total S&M freak. I mean, the handcuffs, the tying the kid to a bed and threatening to drop shit on his junk, the "role playing." Notice how he's not getting up there and saying "You know who's never had sex? Me." And therein lies the problem. It's not so much that these people are against pre-marital sex in general, just for other people.
If he tied me to a table I'd start crying and struggling.
Not so much because of an actual traumatic reaction, but to show the guy he's an ass.
If he tied me to a table I'd start crying and struggling.
I'd sue him for involuntary imprisonment, assault, battery, and sexual assault :D
What an amazing use of underage boys in restraints and misinformation. I think the last time I saw something this amazing was when I saw a similarly "enthusiastic" man try to cure someone of homosexuality.
I'd hate to see his instructive seminar on racism...
Wow. That is completely inappropriate. If that were my boyfriend or brother that guy was dangling that cinderblock over, I think I'd punch his face in. Seriously. And what must those guys' parents think!? I can't even imagine what would prompt this asshole to do this, and I can only hope someone with power is outraged as I am and is in the position to fire his ass.
No way! I saw that guy 'perform' at a youth conference I attended when I was an indoctrinated high schooler in Jeezusland. Fuck, that musta been somewhere between 1998-2001. He was doing the cinder block thing then, too.
It's so weird for me to see this shit blogged about when it seemed so normal at the time.