Planned Parenthood Has Teens Waiting to Exhale
What would you say if I told you that Planned Parenthood has devised a means to put teenagers into an altered and ultra-receptive state of consciousness? And that they put the youths into that state as part of a seminar led by a lesbian on making sexual choices—encouraging them to "become conscious of energy throughout the body"?
Yup, Margaret Sanger's bunch is at it again, getting 'em while they're young—and this time, they're using wacky New Age mind control.
Dr. Judy Kuriansky's latest New York Daily News column describes the workshops she's pilot-tested with Planned Parenthood teen groups in metropolitan New Jersey and in Nassau County, N.Y., with two of the organization's sexuality educators, Heather Simonson and Danielle Varney. Varney, as Kuriansky has written before, is an out-and-proud lesbian.
Kuriansky writes:
One of my current efforts to help young people resist dangerous behavior is to help them learn to control their energy. I do this in a unique workshop I developed that combines Eastern and Western therapy techniques to help kids increase self-esteem and feel control over their lives. The techniques use breathing exercises to build up energy and then go into a meditative state, to become conscious of energy throughout the body and the difference between acting out and being in control.
In other words, the children are being led into a state between sleep and wakefulness, where their subconscious minds can be more easily manipulated by the good doctor and her sapphic sidekick. All in the name of teaching them how to be in "control"—whatever that means. It's positively mind-boggling to see the lengths to which Planned Parenthood will go to avoid instructing teenagers in any degree of continence, let alone abstinence.Another exercise involves becoming aware of the ability to choose and making decisions about sex and other matters with awareness of the consequences. Other exercises include experiencing trust of others and oneself (by being led around while blindfolded) and listening techniques for more compassionate communication.
Yes, you read right: Planned Parenthood is teaching teenage girls to let teenage boys blindfold them and lead them around. I didn't have the guts to let a guy do that to me until I was 27! And it sure as heck didn't improve my sexual decision-making.
Kuriansky observes a difference between the boys' and girls' preferred activities:The males in the groups particularly like the meditation exercises, while the females prefer the communication and interactive exercises.
Of course the teenage boys preferred the meditation—it gave them the opportunity to peek through lidded eyes at the teenage girls as they heaved their chests up and down during the breathing exercises.The results are promising: that the teens feel better about themselves in general and more in control of making wise decisions about sex.
There's a world of difference between feeling "in control" of "making wise decisions" and being mentally equipped to make those decisions. Like the rest of Planned Parenthood's Clintonian sex-ed programs for teens, this breath-exercise program makes sense only if you inhale.
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