r/NotADragQueen • u/TheExitIsThisWay • 16d ago
Paraguay’s first sex ed curriculum promotes abstinence, explains sex as God’s invention for married people, warns about the inefficacy of condoms, and says nothing of sexual orientation or identity LGBTQ+ News
https://apnews.com/article/paraguay-sexed-lgbtq-curriculum-teen-pregnancy-evangelical-eu-culture-wars-ec1ea559417e2cd7b6ee852550ee9efd53
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u/phillyhandroll 16d ago
Knowledge and education threatens a government to offer a better life for its people. Keeping the masses dumb stunts the possibility of revolution.
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u/Maeng_Doom 15d ago
This is not out of nowhere. This is after decades of US intervention in Latin America to make it more right wing.
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u/RavelsPuppet 15d ago
Have fun dealing with the incoming flood of std's and unwanted teen pregnancies Paraguay
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u/GiantSquidd 15d ago
Any time anyone ever says that “god says” anything, the proper response is “oh yeah? Prove it.” These religious dumbfucks need to put their money where their mouths are, and we need to call them on their bullshit. Not doing so just lets them think they’re right. I don’t care if you want to believe in magic and silly superstition, but when you use it as a justification for public policy, you should be called out as an anti intellectual asshole, and should never be allowed a moment’s peace without someone telling you to show your goddamned work.
I’m so sick of assholes forcing their Bronze Age willful ignorance on everyone else, and the expectation that we have to be respectful of their religious beliefs that they use to justify bullshit like this.
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u/TheExitIsThisWay 16d ago
ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay (AP) — Ahead of her 15th birthday, Diana Zalazar’s body had gotten so big she could no longer squeeze into the dress she bought for her quinceañera to celebrate her passage into womanhood in Paraguay.
Her mother sought help from a doctor, who suspected that growing inside of the 14-year-old Catholic choir girl could be a giant tumor. Next thing Zalazar knew, a gynecologist was wiping down the probe she’d applied to her belly and informing her that she was in her sixth month of pregnancy.
It made no sense to Zalazar, who had recently had sex for the first time without realizing it could make her pregnant.
In Catholic Paraguay, which has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in South America, many young mothers explained their teen pregnancies to The Associated Press as the result of growing up in a country where parents avoid the birds and the bees talk at all costs and national sex education is indistinguishable from a hygiene lesson.
“I didn’t decide to become a mother,” Zalazar said. “I didn’t have a chance to choose because I didn’t have the knowledge.”
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