"One popular classroom exercise, for example, employs Scotch Tape to demonstrate how premarital sex can make girls dirty. A teacher holds up a clear strip of tape, meant to represent a girl, in front of the class. The teacher then puts the strip of tape, adhesive side down, on the arm of a boy in the class, to symbolize his sexual relationship with the girl. The teacher rips off the tape (signifying the breakup, apparently) and holds it up again for the class to look at. Students are meant to see that the strip of tape—the girl—has picked up all kinds of dirt and hair from the boy’s arm and is no longer clean. Then, when the teacher tries to stick the same strip to another boy’s arm, he or she notes that it doesn’t stick—they can’t bond! To end things with a bang, the abstinence educator makes a remark about the girl’s being “used” and therefore unable to have strong future relationships."
Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth (via wishful-sinful)
This was done in my “sex ed” class about 4 times in my grade school career.
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WHO DOES THAT. Ugh. My faith in humanity is constantly diminishing.
(via becauseiamawoman)
What the abstinence-pushing fuck is this?
Neither my vagina NOR my ability to have a relationship are made of adhesive tape. If my vagina were, then wearing a pad would be quite difficult. This is preemptive slut shaming at its very finest. Notice how it’s the GIRL who has suddenly become dirty and unable to bond. It has nothing to do with the boy, from whom she GOT all that dirtiness from. His ability to bond is completely unaffected. No matter how the relationship ended, it is the GIRL who was used; it is the GIRL who is dirty; it is the GIRL who can never bond or have a meaningful relationship again.
This isn’t sex education. This isn’t abstinence education. This is “How to Shame Your Local Slut, 101”.
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