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Originally Posted by KSig RC
BITCHES WANNA BANG!
MOSTLY IN THE DEEP SOUTH APPARENTLY
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This really made me laugh. Something about the use of "apparently."
This is actually a big improvement for Georgia in terms of relative rankings, I think. Back in the 90s I think we were typically one of the top three all the time.
And you know, no one took away the condoms, people. Even if your school had an abstinence only program funded by the feds, that doesn't actually prevent a different program from offering comprehensive sex ed. I bet you could count on one hand the number of schools who actually gave out condoms before who quit doing, if you could find any.
What I'm guessing this reflects is some sort of relaxation of fears about HIV in that age group. I think HIV scared a generation of teens to the point that sex without a condom was practically unthinkable, but I guess they've all grown up and there haven't been any high profile heterosexual infections lately.
And I think that what KSUviolet says applies some too. At my first job teaching, I had one girl who had her second baby before she was a senior in high school. The problem wasn't knowing where babies came from or having access to birth control. It was just that if she saw herself working in the local K-Mart distribution center all her life, it wasn't that big impediment to her plans to have a kid or two and she loved them.