Planned Parenthood may be harmful to kids…
And not just the unborn.
Well, we already know Planned Parenthood is harmful to black folk - that story was just in limited circulation a couple of days ago. We know the organization is harmful to the unborn and their mothers by providing abortion services. We also know they promote teen sex, and now the organization is not only teaching about the joys of pornography - they are providing it for the kids as well.
“Outercourse”
“A Planned Parenthood web site for teenagers is promoting pornography to young people, Cybercast News Service reports. An article posted on the Planned Parenthood-sponsored Teenwire.com web site advises teens that pornography is a “lower-risk form of outercourse.”
“Many couples can read or watch sexy stories or pictures together,” the article, originally posted on Teenwire.com in 2007, states. “They can also share or act out sex fantasies.”
Another piece of advice on the website, “Porn vs. Reality,” warns that it is against federal law for anyone under 18 to view pornography. But, says the article, “not everyone follows the rules, and you may run across some porn before you turn 18.”
Many people enjoy pornography “alone or with a partner,” says the article. “People have different ideas of what is arousing, and there are many different kinds of porn that appeal to people’s different interests.” - California Catholic
Politicians such as Obama offer full support to organizations such as Planned Parenthood, and yet they claim to be pro-family. Talk about an “evil empire”.
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March 1st, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Have these people no scruples? An ounce of decency?
March 1st, 2008 at 6:42 pm
No they do not have any scruples … what amazes and frightens me is the simple fact that this information is available to any parent and citizen, as is information about the German & British & California & Massachusetts etc. sex education programs …. but there is no true threaten outcry from the general population … so what does that say … complete apathy has set in … or that the people embrace what they see or both …
March 1st, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Dear Terry,
Ummmm, I’m trying to figure out what the D&G ad has to do with your post.
March 2nd, 2008 at 6:09 am
pml
The population at large is probably quite at ease with the idea of sex-education being done by “experts”. It negates any responsibility for parents to discuss this when the time is right with their children.
I have a theory that the majority of people in the developed world have totally miserable sex lives. Fed a diet of porn-lite body fascism in the glossy magazines, is it any wonder? The D&G image seems totally appropriate to me in this context. Therefore, they feel that to further sexualise the youth is a good thing. It reminds adults of their first joyous adolescent fumbles before the thrill went.
Academics have suggested that the modern folk devil of the predatory stranger paedophile (which form a tiny fraction of all child sex abuse cases)is actually the result of the public’s guilt at fostering inappropriate notions of sexuality on their children… Who knows?
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:30 am
Hi Broajk - Th DG soft porn ad demonstartes how mainstream porn has become. I think it ties in with PP’s strategy.
Rita got it.
March 2nd, 2008 at 11:09 am
” …Academics have suggested that the modern folk devil of the predatory stranger paedophile (which form a tiny fraction of all child sex abuse cases)…” Rita
Rita - please explain your statement of “tiny fraction of all child sex abuse…”
Personally, I don’t think our society has a true picture of the “child sexual abuse” that is going on … be it in our educational institutions, religious organizations, day care facilities, camps, and within families or by true strangers vs general acquaintances.
I sometimes wonder what the proper definition of “sex abuse” should be. Because I see what PPhood, some teen magazines, teen books, movies, corporations and child safety programs are offering and I would put them all in the canopy of child abuse, too.
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:17 pm
pml,
Most serious sexual abuse of children occurs within the family/extended family. The notion of some evil predator out to harm our children, though real, is still, thank God rare compared to the number who abuse within their own family.
I agree with you that subjecting children to the sexualised images and the information in some teen magazines is also a form of abuse. New research is also being done on the fact that sexual abuse by female members of a family may be much higher than recorded, because it is so difficult to detect or report.
The danger with all this is that we may think there was some golden age when children were children and adults were adults. There wasn’t. What is farily new is the open commercialisation and casualisation of the sexual act at all levels of society. It is that which we have to fight.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Dear Terry,
Thanks. I had a sense of it in a pseudo-gang rape thing.
March 2nd, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Broajk - You’re welcome, the original ad concept really is about that - but I used it for the other angle.
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:48 pm
I thought the D&G ad was meant to represent a group of men doing missionary work, maybe building a house for Habitat for Humanity?– and the young lady fell while serving water, the one man is helping her up, but the other men frown with disgust because she had worn high heels in a construction area–she realizes her error and is embarrassed. The man and woman fall in love and get married and have 7 Roman Catholic children. Isn’t it good to see the young performing good works?
Planned Parenthood better stop this sort of ad—it encourages true love and marriage!
(trying to get them confused so they end up fighting themselves…..)
In the end Love will triumph!
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Susan!!! ROFL!
“Dottie Hincle, do you drink!”
March 5th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Dear Terry,
I just saw the DSquared2 campaign. Yeah, I suspect this trend is in most of the fashion world to make clothes smutty.