rc3.org

Tonight there’s a movie about abstinence tonight on MTV, called Everybody’s Doing It. The movie is silly, but it depicts the problem I have with abstinence education, which is that it’s offered as an alternative to other programs, rather than as a supplement to them. As the movie points out at the beginning, abstinence education programs prohibit any discussion of contraceptives outside of their failure rates. That’s just not a realistic approach.