[This article is partially in response to an event on the UNL campus called "The Female Orgasm", internet based information was not immediately found with a Google(tm) search, sorry. ---Editor]
The Female “Orgasm.” Were you offended? Let’s say it again: ORGASM. Strange we aren’t afraid to blurt this risky word whenever it seems appropriate, or not. So what is an orgasm anyway? Well, let’s simply put it as feeling associated with sex. Many things are associated with sex, including some not so pleasant aspects. Lets take little Masud for an example.
Little orphan Masud is living in the heart of where mankind originated. Lying in his cot in a Red Cross tent, Masud rolls over and puts a withered arm on the arm of a peer. It feels cold and lifeless. Masud must face another day of suffering, as undereducated nurses must tend to the needs of many other orphans. Did he have sex? No, but he is feeling the consequences and how he was infected is up to you to decide. This horrifying disease is something we, in the States, hope we never have to face. Sadly 1 in 300 Americans have such a disease.
According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1,014,797 people are suffering with HIV/AIDS in the U.S. as of 2006.
Would you deny the fact our culture has become sexually deviant even when the risks of catching something is almost as daring as a game of Russian roulette? At the beginning of the year, a Nebraska starting lineman was arrested for First Degree Sexual Assault. Around that same time, the Associated Press reported that 1 in 4 American teenage girls have a sexually transmitted disease. The crimes and diseases propagated by unfettered sexual activity are strangely neglected by today’s society, while the University seems to be promoting sexual liberation.
So do you think we should treat sex as a casual activity with any creature that walks upon two legs? Should we be under the illusion that we are only animals giving into to a natural instinct? So go ahead, attend this seminar and educated yourself. Let’s just hope they encourage some responsibility. And sexual responsibility is of course, your responsibility (not the State’s).
[A Daily Nebraskan article by Noah Ballard stated: "there is an editors note stating that the 'facts' the writer used cannot be found with a Google search." The statement referenced, which I presume he means to be the editors note at the top of this page, is not intended to state that the facts of the article are not findable on Google, but rather the event (The Female O) had no information readily available online. I would have thought this to be obvious. ---Editor]
November 17, 2008
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Sexual responsibility is exactly our responsibility and sure as heck not the state's! If only we could get rid of those abstinence programs (which the state has pushed on its citizenry because of its ideological beliefs which are not based in facts or science) and push things like healthy sex education in our schools.
If sexual responsibility is not the states, why do you insist that "healthy sex education" be pushed in state run schools? If it is really not the states, why not avoid the subject altogether? This sounds pretty inconsistent to me.
Further, you state that "abstinence programs" are not based in facts and science, however, these abstinence programs, specifically the A.B.C. program, has already proven significantly superior in Africa, where it's use has reduced unwanted pregnancies and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Yes, abstinence based education may usually stem from a religious ideology, but it has been proven useful, i.e., it is scientifically validated.
To say something specifically: Using condoms does not completely rule out the possibility of pregnancy or contracting a sexually transmitted disease. By teaching students to pretend otherwise, you are teaching students a dangerous form of Russian roulette.
Tobias -
The source you cite about the A.B.C. program is from the Family Research Council, a Pro-Life and anti-contraception group.
Hardly an unbiased source.
Orgasms happen when people have sex - even within marriage. Believe it. And an orgasm isn't just a "feeling." It's a physical response to intercourse. It's not filthy - it's biology.
If you don't understand orgasms - sex in general - maybe you should attend one of these events or pick up some information from the Women's Center in the Nebraska Union. The lecturers, Marchall Miller and Dorian Solot, are professionally trained sex educators. A simple search for their names on Google yields their Web site (www.sexualityeducation.com). Selling point for you folks: Marshall Miller is a trainer of teachers for the Unitarian Universalist and United Church of Christ Our Whole Lives sexuality education programs.
Also orgasms don't cause HIV/AIDS. Ignorance does.
@Anonymous: That was simply a bookmarked source, if you do a bit of research about how beneficial it is you could find more.
@Can has knowledge: 1) Ignorance does not cause sexually transmitted diseases. People who have been told of the high risk of such diseases continue to consciously choose dangerous sex. 2) If you attended the seminar let me know: Did they actually teach you about sex? Something more than techniques? Something about the high risk of unwanted pregnancies or sexually transmitted diseases, even when wearing condoms?
The point is this: Sexual activity may provide momentary pleasure, but all your momentary pleasure cannot account for the child born with AIDS because his parents had sex with a condom and the virus still got through. No one wants to talk about the people who used condoms and still got pregnant, or who still got AIDS.
It doesn't take much to understand what sex is, and it doesn't take much to understand the pleasures of sex. In fact, it is hard to see past the pleasure and into the risk. If 0.01% of people who use a condom still get AIDS, out of the 25,000 people on campus, 250 people would have AIDS. Explain to "Masud" that he is dying because you wanted a little pleasure.
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