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Promise abstinence, earn a chicken sandwich
Posted By katie allison granju
An interesting overview of what really goes on in abstinence-based sex-ed classes by a student who attended them:
The instructor offered two chocolate bars. One contained laxatives and the other was a regular chocolate bar. We were offered both, but not told which was which. When we declined, we were told sexual partners are like chocolate bars — the risk isn’t worth the pleasure. These implications are unsettling — sexual partners are presented as untrustworthy and as deceitful as a chocolate bar.
It was a public school, so they couldn’t justify saving sex for marriage on religious grounds. Instead, they justified it with social custom. A person is more valuable to their spouse if they wait until marriage. Virginity is a gift. Waiting is a gift. They split us up by gender and asked the guys if they would want to marry a virgin, and supposedly, they all said yes. This was particularly interesting because there was a sexually active couple in my class. The girl was devastated. They actually told her that her boyfriend probably didn’t want to marry her because he was having sex with her. But the real topper for this class was signing a promise — a promise for a chicken sandwich. Oh yes. Sign this paper saying you’ll wait until marriage and you can get a free sandwich from Chick-fil-A. I don’t mean to state the obvious, but nothing could devalue a person more than selling his/ her virginity for a chicken sandwich.
May 20th, 2008
mm. forbidden chocolate….
Only if an order of waffle fries are included.