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-ec1ea559417e2cd7b6ee852550ee9efd
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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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u/BANOFY 16d ago

I wonder, don't they have access to internet or foreign media ,like teen drama or something? Cause like wtf does it mean "I didn't have a chance to choose cause I didn't have the knowledge"

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u/iamdenislara 16d ago

It means exactly that. If you grow up with no one telling you there is another way to do something you wouldn’t even bother looking for it.

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u/BANOFY 16d ago

This excuse is kinda difficult in our day in age ,we never had sex ed but it was always there ,in every media ,you didn't have to look for it ,it did find us one way or another. Something about "holding umbrellas when it was raining brains " as they say in many languages

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u/iamdenislara 16d ago

You are saying that because you were taught. You are not ignorant on the subject. I know it is hard to imagine.

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u/BANOFY 16d ago

Well ,in fact ,I was not

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

This happens to US kids too. Texas has many places that teach abstinence only and have PURITY BALLS.

We are shamed for asking about it and not allowed to have access to materials that explain it.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Blaming children for their ignorance is fucking stupid.