Prom Fright
[Note: The following contains graphic sexual language from Planned Parenthood's Teenwire.]
Just in time for prom season, Planned Parenthood's sex-ed site Teenwire—where children as young as six can register to get advice from "sexperts"—has posted a new-and-improved version of its evergreen "Be Prepared for the Prom", which gained the attention of MSNBC's "Scarborough Country" after I covered it last year. This time around, they're recommending that high-school girls pack not only condoms in their prom purses, but also dental dams (for oral sex or licking their prom date's "anus"—"plastic wrap" will do in a pinch) and—for "even more protection"—morning-after pills. For girls who don't have a ready supply of the embryo-destroying drug, the article includes a toll-free phone number to order the pills, which—in nearly every state—are supposed to be dispensed only with a doctor's prescription.
* * *On a related note, the Catholic World News blog reports that Boston's Jesuit Urban Center is passing along
an urgent request for adult volunteers to "chaperone" the Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Youth's Prom—which, according to the BAGLY Web site, is
"like a huge queer club."
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