Angelica Allen

I love Planned Parenthood, they provide the education and access to birth control that adolescents and young adults are by the education system, giving the tools to make the best choice for them sexually and to make that decision a well informed one. They do an important job in correcting “sex” education. They provide the tools that enable young men and women to PLAN their pregnancy and ENJOY their own sexuality. I know soo terrible right.

The undisputed fact is that young women are sexualized in our culture, bombarded with a myriad of mixed messages about the expectations placed on them. It’s that damn virgin/whore complex. It is a conundrum that teaches young girls to equate lust with shame. Not sex with healthy relationships, or freedom; and worse still it teaches young women that to equate sex and pleasure is dirty, because if you like it then you must be a whore. What a terrible message to send! Seriously it pisses me off.

Abstinence only education perpetuates this message. I tells (heterosexual, because homosexuality is not to be spoken of in public education) boys that non-virgins are a gross worthless pair of shoes that someone else worn, because who want to put their feet in dirty shoes (this was the actual lesson taught by my high school sex education instructor). That girls are icky if they like sex. Now at the time I not only tolerated the comparison of my body to a dirty sneaker– ...