That's right, that's us in second place behind D.C. But since D.C. is a District and not a state...WE'RE NUMBER 1!!! WE'RE NUMBER 1!!! Woohoo! Let's have a parade! Well, how about chlamydia? Oh, so CLOSE! Alaska, of all places, beat us by a nose.
Well, what about syphilis? You know, the STD that the government used in human experiments at Tuskegee? Well, we couldn't quite pull off the clean sweep of being the dirtiest state. Louisiana took the honors there, with D.C. still leading the pack:
I think we all owe a hearty round of applause to the abstinence-only proponents who made this possible. Thanks, guys and gals, but let's not stop there! Just think, with a few more years of teaching the young women of Mississippi to prevent pregnancy by pinching a penny between their knees, we'll have that top spot all to ourselves! Go, Mississippi! Keep rolling along!
Thanks to MensHealth.com for the graphics.
5 comments:
I fail to see any data correlating these stats with abstinence-only sex ed.
Don't you know if we ignore it, it will go away. If we don't tell them they will never figure out what that stuff "down there" is for.
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/FB-Teen-Sex-Ed.html
Funny how no data correlation is necessary to persist with the failed notion that teenagers will stop having sex, if you just tell them to wait until marriage.
I'm not defending the abstinence-only sex ed curriculum by any means, but I also don't think it's the source of every one of Mississippi's problems.
So, by correlation the folks in Wyoming are sex-ed rock stars?
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