{"id":11557,"date":"2009-08-08T10:57:27","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T15:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=11557"},"modified":"2012-10-17T02:55:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T07:55:45","slug":"sexing-up-abstinence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/08\/08\/sexing-up-abstinence\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexing Up Abstinence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dmitriy sent us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.candiesfoundation.org\/tshirts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Candies Foundation<\/a>, a non-profit organization that wants teenage girls to avoid pregnancy by abstaining from sex.\u00a0 So they&#8217;re going to make abstinence as sexy as possible!\u00a0 The slogan: &#8220;I&#8217;m SEXY enough&#8230; to keep you waiting&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11560\" title=\"Capture1\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/08\/Capture11.JPG\" alt=\"Capture1\" width=\"260\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I noticed also that the message is aimed exclusively at girls. &#8220;You&#8221; is implicitly a guy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11559\" title=\"Capture\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/08\/Capture1.JPG\" alt=\"Capture\" width=\"463\" height=\"341\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The responsibility for keeping teens abstinent and for preventing teen pregnancy, then, falls solely on girls.<\/p>\n<p>Dmitriy also points out that the campaign promotes abstinence, but not the use of birth control. He adds: &#8220;we do not combat auto accidents by not driving. we prevent them through driving and safety ed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See also this post featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/06\/12\/contradictory-message\/\" target=\"_self\">sweatpants that say &#8220;true love waits&#8221; across the ass<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Wade is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\/followers\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lisa-Wade-PhD\/174350419354908\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dmitriy sent us a link to the Candies Foundation, a non-profit organization that wants teenage girls to avoid pregnancy by abstaining from sex.\u00a0 So they&#8217;re going to make abstinence as sexy as possible!\u00a0 The slogan: &#8220;I&#8217;m SEXY enough&#8230; to keep you waiting&#8221;: I noticed also that the message is aimed exclusively at girls. &#8220;You&#8221; is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2083,12508,223,55,2099,23704,120],"class_list":["post-11557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortionreproduction","tag-activismsocial-movements","tag-childrenyouth","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-public-service-announcements","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11557"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11563,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11557\/revisions\/11563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}