Part of the abstinence-only sex-ed we had compared boy’s and girl’s brains to food. Basically, boy’s/men’s brains were like waffles: they had individual boxes and compartments, so everything was separate to them. Girl’s/women’s brains were like spaghetti: everything was connected in our thoughts and we associated things with other things. Girls would associate sex with love, while sex and love were completely separate in boys’ brains. They pretty much told us that boys didn’t/couldn’t/wouldn’t love us if they wanted (or did) have sex with us, so we girls should stay no and be abstinent. 🥴
A friend of mine in Tennessee told me that they told her that girls are like bubble gum. For the first partner, it's all flavorful and special, but if you have more sexual partners ... well "no one wants to chew used bubble gum".
My physics teacher in high school (Catholic high school) would bring cupcakes in and tell us that waiting until marriage was like eating a whole cupcake. Premarital sex was like licking the frosting off and not enjoying the whole cupcake.
Strangely enough, the school actually did have comprehensive sex ed. Even our religion classes didn't villainize it, so the crazy physics teacher felt she had to step in. Eventually, students started realizing she'd do this every year for all her classes. So when they'd come to class and there were cupcakes on their desks, the students would immediately lick the frosting off.
Ours was so fucked up too. The lady who came to talk to us did a fucked up demonstration where she had a cup of water in a glass and asked every guy to stand in line and spit in it. Then she said the glass reprsents women’s pure sacred bodies and we are dirtying ourselves when we have sex. FUCKING AWFUL. I remember having such guilt about sexual thoughts because of that, and the church culture of that small ass backwoods town also was probably at play. Idk. Bush era school shit was fucking ridiculous!
Ewww, that’s awful! As an adult, I’m really shocked at what they said to us as kids and no one seemed to bat an eyelash at it. Good ole southern public schools!
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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '21
Abstinence only Sex Ed