The Georgetown Dish reports that a graphic test about sex was administered to 7th grade youth at Hardy Middle School. As I have recently reported, Michelle Rhee kicked out the popular ULTRA Teen Choice abstinence centered HIV and pregnancy prevention program, which was being provided at no charge to several DC public schools. Instead, she has now paid Metro Teen Aids at least $95,000 to bring in graphic programs that do not promote abstinence but rather promote accepting all kinds of sexual behavior (gay, straight, transgender, etc) and using condoms. Unfortunately, programs like this do not increase the rate of consistent condom use, and they undermine the values that the great majority of parents want to communicate to their children: The Georgetown dish article says: [More]

The District of Columbia Department of Health is now distributing Trojan condoms as well as Durex condoms, including the super-size Magnum variety. So one can conclude, according to the DC HIV/AIDS administration, that the problem is not that youth are having sex, but that they are not using condoms enough. However, there is no data to support this approach. No program anywhere in the world has ever succeeded in increasing the rate of condom use throughout the general population. Researcher Ed Green has done important work in this area . Condom distribution in the District increased from 600,0000 in 2007 to 3.2 million in 2009. Yet at the same time, the rate of HIV infection increased by 9.2 per cent. [More]

How can a major document written by four supposed "experts" and six research assistants working in the city with the highest HIV/AIDS infection rates in the nation not even mention reducing the number of sexual partners as a goal for sexual health? Also how can there be almost no focus whatsoever on promoting sexual abstinence? This is because the report is based on the flawed view that all kinds of sexual exploration are healthy for youth and that you should not discourage sexual exploration. [More]