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Quick Hits continued from page 7 asylum seeker that are scheduled for deportation to Iran.” (Associated Press and CNN, May 20) “[The video is a] classic fear and smear campaign [that is] absolutely misleading.” — James Wagoner Abstinence-only forces unleash video The National Abstinence Education Association has produced a three-minute video (http:// neav.inovaone.com) that alleges that comprehensive sex education teaches children how to have sex. After arriving home, Mom greets her 13-yearold daughter (who is dutifully doing her homework at the kitchen table) and then receives a phone call from the girl’s teacher. The teacher tells Mom that the comprehensive sex education her daughter received was inappropriate. “I’m embarrassed to even read you some of the things in here,” the teacher says. The fictional scenario continues with the teacher informing Mom that the curriculum included instructions to teens that “showering together is a green light activity.” Mom gets upset, asks her daughter if that really happened, the girl says it did. Viewers are then asked to go to a website (www.parentsfortruth.org) that attempts to create a lobbying effort to save federal funding for abstinence-only sexuality education. Advocates for Youth president James Wagoner called it a “classic fear and smear campaign” that is “absolutely misleading.” Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, also blasted it. “We’ve wasted $1.5 billion on so-called abstinence-only programs that don’t work.” (Washington Post, June 1) Take the Guttmacher Institute quiz What percentage of Americans are not virgins when they get married? Possible answers: 50 percent, 75 percent or 95 percent. OK, that one is pretty easy for readers of this publication. (The answer: 95 percent.) But how well do you fare on the other nine questions in the Guttmacher Institute’s pop quiz for sexual and reproductive health? Take the quiz and find out. It’s easy to access if you’re reading this via the new Contemporary Sexuality Nxtbook. Just click on this link: www. guttmacher. org/support/quiz/html and find out what the institute, which describes itself as “the leading think tank on sexual and reproductive health issues in the United States and worldwide” thinks you should know. 8 Contemporary Sexuality www.aasect.org | July 2008 Vol. 42, No. 7 http://www.guttmacher.org/support/quiz.html http://www.guttmacher.org/support/quiz.html http://www.parentsfortruth.org http://www.sexsmartfilms.com http://www.passionatemarriage.com http://www.sexsmartfilms.com http://www.passionatemarriage.com http://www.aasect.org

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