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In an animated
video cartoon on its Web site, the Planned Parenthood Federation of
America advises teens that taking part in "sex play" and "outercourse"
can greatly reduce their risk of getting a sexually transmitted
infection (STI).
The cartoon features Tina the Farmer who gives viewers a tour of her
“Sexually Transmitted Infections Petting Zoo.” At the end of the video,
viewers are asked to take a quiz.
The second question on the quiz asks about protecting oneself from
getting a STI.
“The only way to protect yourself from sexually transmitted infections
is not having any sex play at all," the second quiz question asks.
There are two choices to click on to answer: “This Sounds Right” and
“This Couldn’t Possibly be Right.”
If you click on “This Sounds Right,” animated creatures representing
the SDIs run across the screen and scream “WRONG!”
By clicking on the “correct” answer – “This Couldn’t Possibly be Right”
– they are rewarded with the visual and audio message “RIGHT-O” and
this message appears:
“You can still get it goin’ on without having intercourse. Ever hear of
outercourse? That’s right, outercourse. Outercourse includes body
rubbing (people who are less polite might call it ‘dry humping’),
masturbation, deep kissing, and erotic massage. Outercourse can GREATLY
reduce the risk of many sexually transmitted infections – unless body
fluids are exchanged through oral sex or anal intercourse."
Planned Parenthood, which, according to its annual report for
2007-2008, got $349.6 million dollars from the federal government, did
not respond to repeated calls and e-mails from CNSNews.com asking
several questions, including what age group the cartoon is targeting,
whether the organization believes the cartoon encourages teens to be
sexually active, and if any of the federal funding goes toward
producing the cartoon.
In the cartoon, Farmer Tina says nature gives us lots of good things,
like cows and pigs. Then she shows viewers a pen filled with sexually
transmitted infections.
“But sometimes nature gives things we don’t want,” Tina says in the
cartoon.”Yep, these are sexually transmitted infections."
“Let’s see, there’s herpes and gonorrhea over there. That’s Chlamydia
and genital warts fighting over a warm place to bred. That’s syphilis
and HIVover yonder there just waitin’ for someone to get careless so
they can hop over the fence and put a serious hurtin’ on ya,” Tina says.
Then the cartoon shows a naked man and woman partially hidden behind a
cow.
“And look at this over there,” Tina says. “That dude and dudette over
yonder just don’t get it. They’re horsin’ around without a condom.
Puttin’ themselves at great risk for getting one of those sexually
transmitted infections."
“STI are bad news,” Tina says. “You don’t want to catch them and you
don’t want to pass them on neither. The good news is there are things
you can do to reduce your risk. So take this little quiz and the only
place you’ll see these nasty infections is right here in my overpriced
pettin’ zoo.”
Wendy Wright, executive director of Concerned Women for America, said
the cartoon is in opposition to Planned Parenthood’s claim of the
importance of medically accurate information being used in
"comprehensive" sex education programs for teens
“It’s medically inaccurate,” Wright said about the answer to the
Planned Parenthood quiz stating outercourse reduces the risk of getting
a sexually transmitted disease (STD) or an STI.
Wright said genital human papillomavirus (HPV) – one of the most
common sexually transmitted diseases and one that is linked to uterine
cancer in women -- can be transmitted genital-to-genital or
skin-to-skin without intercourse or the exchange of bodily fluids.
“This is very important because Planned Parenthood, Guttmacher
(Institute), the whole comprehensive sex-ed crowd insists that the
government should only fund sex-ed programs that are medically
accurate,” Wright told CNSNews.com. “In this case, the information they
are putting out there is medically inaccurate."
Wright said she thinks that the cartoon’s message also will mislead
teens about the risks of being sexually active.
“For a teenager -- and teenagers are the target market here -- they are
going to read that and they are going to come away with the deepest
impression that as long as you don’t exchange bodily fluids, as long as
you don’t have oral, vaginal, or anal sex then you are safe from
getting an STI or an STD and that’s just not true,” Wright said.
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Contact: Penny Starr
Source: CNSNews.com
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