{"id":5530,"date":"2017-08-06T21:07:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T04:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=5530"},"modified":"2020-10-18T11:45:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T18:45:30","slug":"dan-savage-on-sex-dread-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2017\/08\/06\/dan-savage-on-sex-dread-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Savage on “Sex Dread” Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vox: \u201cSex dread\u201d education could be on the rise under Trump. Dan Savage is ready to fight it.<\/a>. Subtitle: Dan Savage on why abstinence-focused education doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

Of course. Because conservatives just *know* things to be so, despite evidence.<\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/p>\n

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Alexander Bisley<\/h4>\n

The Trump administration is moving toward<\/a> abstinence-only<\/a> sex education for teens.<\/p>\n

Dan Savage<\/h4>\n

Mmhm. That\u2019s going to be counter-productive. They don\u2019t seem to learn much from research or data.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And a couple days later, I’m struck by this comment by Dan Savage:<\/p>\n

\nOne of the things I like to say is that we\u2019re told this lie when we\u2019re children that one day we\u2019re gonna grow up and have sex, when in reality one day we grow up and sex has us.<\/p>\n

It can make it hard to talk about, because we\u2019re all implicated and we\u2019re all powerless in the face of our sexual desires and interests. Not in acting on them, we all have the ability to make our own choices and be sure that we\u2019re acting consensually. But powerlessness in the face of desires existing within us. Our sexual interests, whether we\u2019re talking about genders that people are attracted to, or even our kinks and what turns us on, in a way those are all assigned to us whether we like it or not. And that experience is always going to be a little alienating. It makes sex a little difficult for everyone to talk about.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sex has us. It’s the evolutionary drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vox: \u201cSex dread\u201d education could be on the rise under Trump. Dan Savage is ready to fight it.. Subtitle: Dan Savage on why abstinence-focused education doesn\u2019t work. Of course. Because conservatives just *know* things to be so, despite evidence. Excerpt: … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservative-resistance","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5533,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530\/revisions\/5533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}