From: sunderl@obvius.stl.dec.com (Mike Sunderland)
Subject: Re: Fundamentalists and the clitoris
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 03:56:14 GMT

ae642@yfn.ysu.edu (Kelley Miller) writes:

>In a previous article, aberson@enh.nist.gov () says:

>>The Miami Herald yesterday had an interesting article about
>>sex education in schools, especially about the two methods
>>of teaching this subject.  One is the comprehensive method, which
>>truthfully discusses all aspects of sexuality, including
>>homosexuality, bisexuality, etc.  The other is the
>>abstinence-based method favored by the religious-right, but
>>which is used in about 50% of the nation's schools.
>>
>>To our president-elect' credit, his chief advisor on this subject
>>favors the comprehensive method, and in the last four year,
>>comprehensive sexual education has been the rule throughout
>>Atkansas, according to the article.
>>
>>One tidbit caught my eye in the description of the abstinence-based
>>approach, along with  no abortion, no homosexuality, no sex before
>>marriage, etc.   In sexual-education, the clitoris does not exist.
>>It cannot be shown, and it cannot be mentioned.
>>
>>Amazing.

>Not at all!!

>EVERYBODY knows that WOMEN aren't ment to enjoy sex...they are cursed, and
>what pleasure women get from sex is only from the pleasure she knows she
>is given her man!!

>OF COURSE the Religious Right's "Abstenance based" sex education would
>never mention such a Godless untruth!  If it ever did, God help us,
>women would become like men, seeking pleasurable experiences!!!

>If God had wanted women to enjoy sex, he would have given them a Penis!!! 


>No, I'm not amazed...I'd be more amazed if it were otherwise...


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>*                    Kelley L. Miller  //  Know God, No Peace    /P \    *    
>*                  ae642@yfn.ysu.edu  //                        /____\   *
>*****************  James Trafficant for US Senate, 1998  *****************

What a load of dingo's kidneys!!!!
If you weren't so bloody defensive you might be able to have enough sense to
see how silly it is to make such gross generalisations. I don't know much
about the 'religious right' because I don't live in the good ol' USofA, but
I do know a lot of people who would share the views that you label
"Abstenance based". I have never met anyone who would come even close to the
kind of stupidity you quote above. Shit! Of course God created sexual pleasure
for both women and men.

Its the age old trick of stiring up hatred and hysteria by painting your
"enemy" as blacker than black. Let's make a Manuel Noriega out of all the
people who don't agree with us. Let's make them all look like Saddam Hussein.
Yeah! Let's saddamise them all!!

If you want to be stereo-typed and caricatured then go right ahead and keep
on doing what your doing now, because it makes you sound like a raving bloody
loony.  If you want to foster some understanding and honesty, then be ready
to listen and be listened to. And BTW, isn't there a lot more to life than
seeking pleasurable experiences?
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Mike Sunderland			sunderland@obvius.stl.dec.com
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