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Ron DeSantis bans Florida's sex ed classes from mentioning anatomy & contraceptives (www.lgbtqnation.com)

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All districts are now required to promote abstinence, exclude consent, and remove any pictures of reproductive organs.

The Florida Department of Education (FLDOE) has ordered local school districts to submit their sex education plans to the state for approval. The FLDOE has also said the classes must promote abstinence and cannot include discussion of contraception or pictures of reproductive health organs.

The sex-ed takeover removes local discretion when it comes to district sex education classes and materials.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Well lookie here. It's Big-Government DeSantis creating the Junior Anti-Sex League.

The Junior Anti-Sex League represents the Party's efforts to control the most intimate aspects of individuals' lives in "1984".

Unlike Winston, [Julia] had grasped the inner meaning of the Party’s sexual puritanism. It was not merely that the sex instinct created a world of its own which was outside the Party’s control and which therefore had to be destroyed if possible. What was more important was that sexual privation induced hysteria, which was desirable because it could be transformed into war-fever and leader-worship.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

these guys think about sex and children too much to not be pedophiles.

and this is the number one legislation you'd want to pass if you wanted to make it easier to engage in pedophilia.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago

They just want Florida schools to make victims.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 22 hours ago

When your thirty year plan as a governor is just to keep the Florida man meme alive forever.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 23 hours ago

Florida biology classes mostly center around the four humors.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

You joke, but it does feel as though dismantling public education is just a knock-on effect of all these gag orders.

If you want your kids to get a serious sex-ed or biology background, you're obligated to send them to private schools.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 22 hours ago

That's their plan. Educated citizens vote less often for restrictive, backwards Republican culture warrior control freaks.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago

The plan is a Christian Caliphate. These people are terminally lazy, so it's less work to be a radical sect than it is to learn how to build a bridge, or a healthy family.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Don't necessarily need to go as far as full private education. Unitarian Universalists have put together workshops for sexual education.

https://www.uua.org/re/owl

I'm not a member of UU, but I have friends who are and the curriculum seems legit.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

I was raised UU! It's a great sex ed and relationship health program that addresses all aspects of relationships, sex-related or not. I highly recommend checking out your local Unitarian Universalist church/congregation if you have one nearby. They're pretty cool folks.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

Many people enjoy inserting and removing a their gun from a holster, however, it's important to remember that discharging your gun in the holster can have dire, life altering consequences.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago

Ah yes, more "protecting the children"* to pander to an angry and stupid electorate.

* "Protecting the children" is a phrase used here to mean, "ensuring the next generation of an angry and stupid electorate."

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

To pander to the segment of the electorate DeSantis thinks is going to reelect him.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

He needs to get the state legislature to revoke their term limits before he can be reelected.

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[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago

This is how you get teens pregnant. And/or full of STDs.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 22 hours ago

When Fidesz banned sex ed here in Hungary on the basis of "child protection", we got an immediate rise in child pregnancies.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

And children and teens groomed and assaulted.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago

With all the hysteria around a White Lady Pregnancy Gap, this may be a feature rather than a bug.

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[-] [email protected] 69 points 1 day ago

If theres no sex and no ed how is it sex ed?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

My guess would be sone form of gender astrology: Men bigger, have more angry, women smaller, have more talk.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago

It isn’t. Florida needs pregnant teenagers who can’t get abortions so that they can use their children to sit on the coastline and pedal the land up out of the water. This is also where they will get their electricity. It also needs a constant supply of these children because they’ll have to replace them after every hurricane.

Everything I just typed is probably more likely to work than abstinence based sex ed is to prevent pregnancy and is just as scientifically valid as a sex ed class with no sex and no ed.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago

Nice, Five Million Merits mixed with dystopia environmentalist catastrophe, I love it

[-] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

You talking about the Black Mirror episode?

I watched it a decade ago or something (can’t remember it), need to see it again. It’s 15 million merits though.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

Thanks for the correction! Been about the same amount of time for me lol

[-] [email protected] 13 points 23 hours ago

Won't anybody think of the children!?

The age old adage of the oppressor

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago

So not sex ed.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Ed won’t even know where to start with his wiener. You ever read that story about the lady who never got pregnant because her husband had been inserting himself into her urethra opening?

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[-] [email protected] 103 points 1 day ago

Scared of the vagina. And women in general. Who are these weak men? They shouldn't have power anywhere.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago

I'm not sure they're scared, I think it's more about control and to make sure kids don't understand what's happening to them if they're subjected to abuse or when they reach puberty. It's all about power and control over the body of other people.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

They are scared of losing power. Shitty rulers always are, because they know how bad they are, or at least they assume others would treat them just as badly if given the chance, which is almost synonymous.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

The need to control raises from fear.

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

So are they just going to pray in class now? Practice their purity vows? Maybe we can have the creepy dad wedding right there in school.

States rights is just a cover for them, so fuck it let's do some pre-empting from the federal level. Either that or use the Dept. of Education to put up billboards around Florida's interstates. Give them Sex Ed one way or the other since they don't want to have consent as a thing either.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago

These words include abuse, consent, domestic violence, fluids, gender identity and LGBTQ information, she said.

Bro what. Ok ok I understand, no matter how much I disagree with it, why they think pictures of stuff are icky but c’mon, people.

[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago

It's beyond apparent they want women locked into abusive marriages again. If they could get away with it they'd be rolling back their abilities to use banks, get a driver's license, or even work without the consent of their husband.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago

They're working on no fault divorce repeal.

A few maggot congresspersons have floated the idea

[-] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

It's part of project 2025. It's more than just a few people.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

Hey, Maggots don't deserve that comparison. They're actually useful to an ecosystem. ;)

[-] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago

That's also why they're pandering actively for incels.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

I remember sex ed class having textbooks with drawings, not photographs. It wasn't icky. The topic was awkward AF, of course... Well, I dunno what textbooks are like these days tho.

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