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Can Sex Ed Prevent Rape?

Posted by Evan Derkacz at 12:45 PM on January 17, 2007.


Just look at the statistics... if you dare.
exsbananashakecondoms
See? No sex-ed and the darned banana's on the condom... not the other way around...

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Guest post from Joan Conde.

As a mother of two teenaged girls, I believe that the best way to discourage them from making me a grandmother is to get involved in their sex education. Just the picture of their mother pulling a condom over a banana has been enough to take the glow off the romance of steamy, unprotected exchanges in cars. But contraception education isn't enough. We've had plenty of dialogues about "respecting yourself." A girl does have to learn to say "no."

But could sex ed reduce rapes? An persuasive case for this is made by Courtney Martin, whose excellent post, "Willful Ignorance" appears in today's American Prospect. Noting that most rapes occur to women under 30, Martin views college campuses as a primary venue for rape. Due to the Administrations' preference for abstinence only sex ed, Martin suggests that colleges are full of students with little or no sex education. She suggests incorporating knowledge about communication and power issues via role playing, into sex ed.

Martin should know that this is already being done, if on the sly. I met an eighth grade teacher last week who admitted that she and other faculty were teaching their students to say "no" and to respect their bodies, "under the wire" of the principal, who prefers the abstinence only program officially offered by the school. The teachers initiated this, she said, after having three pregnant eighth graders last year.

Sign this petition for accurate sex ed in your schools.

Read the Guttmacher Institute report on teen pregnancy to find out why Europeans do it better.

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Tagged as: feminism, rape, abstinence, sex education

Joan Conde blogs at Mamacita.


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Posted by: fanny666 on Jan 18, 2007 8:44 AM   
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Does anyone know of any well-done studies that look at the rate of rape or sexual assault across decades in America? Or comparing American rates to those in other cultures? I hate to sanitize such a topic, but I've been wondering exactly how culture contributes. Were things worse during the depression? During the repressed 50s? Are they worse now that sex is an overtly used advertising commodity? How about in cultures that are more or less patriarchal? Ancient Greece?

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