Gum-gnats and condom-camels

Sex Education | Maryland school district has an inconsistent definition of “health risks” | Lynn Vincent

The recent sex-ed fracas in a Maryland school district started with a hunk of pink Bubblicious. But to put the outrage in context, you really need condoms and a cucumber.

In December and January, a Rockville Pregnancy Center abstinence-education presenter invited students in several Montgomery County high schools to play the "gum game." It goes like this:

The presenter asks the students, "Would anyone like to come up here and chew a piece of bubble gum?" There is always at least one taker. But as soon as the student ambles forward, pops the gum in his mouth, and gets it good and sloppy, the presenter asks if anyone else would like to come up and chew gum—the same gum.

"Gross!" the girls typically cry.

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