All districts are now required to promote abstinence, exclude consent, and remove any pictures of reproductive organs.

The Florida Department of Education (FLDOE) has ordered local school districts to submit their sex education plans to the state for approval. The FLDOE has also said the classes must promote abstinence and cannot include discussion of contraception or pictures of reproductive health organs.

The sex-ed takeover removes local discretion when it comes to district sex education classes and materials.

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    So are they just going to pray in class now? Practice their purity vows? Maybe we can have the creepy dad wedding right there in school.

    States rights is just a cover for them, so fuck it let’s do some pre-empting from the federal level. Either that or use the Dept. of Education to put up billboards around Florida’s interstates. Give them Sex Ed one way or the other since they don’t want to have consent as a thing either.

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    Ok, the title comes from the linked article, but they aren’t banned from “mentioning anatomy”. They are banned from showing pictures of reproductive organs.

    I don’t know why some people seem compelled to take a story that’s plenty horrible as it stands and give it a deceptive headline… seems like I’m seeing more of that recently. Are we really in a post-truth era?

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      Without seeing the document you’re not going to see the whole picture. This is a summary of that document that has some inconsistent wording, but until the article and the document are compared you can’t even say what the truth is.

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        That’s a fine rationale for omissions but the headline is directly misstating the guidance on anatomy. It’s unnecessary for the article to call it out in the headline.

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          My point is it’s misstated based on the Orlando Sentinel article linked, but the document isn’t linked so we don’t actually know what the source of truth actually says.

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            So when you don’t know what it is, you make it up? This is shit journalism. Period.

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      It’s even more unnecessary because the content is already plenty concerning in my opinion. I don’t see a need to embellish.

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      I’d guess it was an attempt to keep the title succinct, then not proofing it properly. In any case, always read the article before commenting as titles are frequently misleading (intentional or not).

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      Ok, the title comes from the linked article, but they aren’t banned from “mentioning anatomy”. They are banned from showing pictures of reproductive organs.

      How is that any better? Next your going to rationalize having no books in a literature class, showing no pictures of cells in a biology class, or having a trigonometry class without using the devil’s radians.

      I don’t know why some people seem compelled to ignore all context and rationalize state sponored religious persecution in the name of “protecting the children”. It’s not post-truth just because you’ve decided to willfully ignore all the context.

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        Exactly. Because it’s not any better (“plenty horrible as it stands” as I put it in my original comment), the deceptive headline is not only unnecessary, but also taints the entire story with falsehood when it should not be so degraded.

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          Mentioning anatomy isn’t substantially different than photos of anatomy in a classroom setting unless you’re a troll looking for a knit to pick.

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      We live in an age where people are obsessively needy about being outraged to the point where they need to make shit up topics one another off.

      Lemmy is probably the best example of this behavior.

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    “Class, today I direct you to talk about sex and then step out in the hall. If I am not present, I can’t get in trouble if you learn things certain governors don’t want you to learn about.”

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    Scared of the vagina. And women in general. Who are these weak men? They shouldn’t have power anywhere.

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      I’m not sure they’re scared, I think it’s more about control and to make sure kids don’t understand what’s happening to them if they’re subjected to abuse or when they reach puberty. It’s all about power and control over the body of other people.

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        And more teen pregnancies so there’s more right coloured children and more women staying out of school.

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        They are scared of losing power. Shitty rulers always are, because they know how bad they are, or at least they assume others would treat them just as badly if given the chance, which is almost synonymous.

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    Ah yes, more “protecting the children”* to pander to an angry and stupid electorate.

    * “Protecting the children” is a phrase used here to mean, “ensuring the next generation of an angry and stupid electorate.”

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    These words include abuse, consent, domestic violence, fluids, gender identity and LGBTQ information, she said.

    Bro what. Ok ok I understand, no matter how much I disagree with it, why they think pictures of stuff are icky but c’mon, people.

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      It’s beyond apparent they want women locked into abusive marriages again. If they could get away with it they’d be rolling back their abilities to use banks, get a driver’s license, or even work without the consent of their husband.

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      I remember sex ed class having textbooks with drawings, not photographs. It wasn’t icky. The topic was awkward AF, of course… Well, I dunno what textbooks are like these days tho.

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      Ed won’t even know where to start with his wiener. You ever read that story about the lady who never got pregnant because her husband had been inserting himself into her urethra opening?

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        No, and that sounds impossible. Like, I can’t imagine how that could happen even once. Do you have a source? I can’t find anything.

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          I’ll dig for it. Might have been bullshit but I definitely read it.

          Who knows? Maybe I’ll end up being the face of bad women’s anatomy on Lemmy. :p

          I’ll find it.

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            I’ve read that story, too. Still might be bullshit, but who would tell false story about sex on the Internet?

            Edit: found it, or at least an example

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            Thank you for your willingness to look into it and your potential acknowledgement that the story may have been bullshit. I appreciate that.

            I’m pretty sure this can’t have happened, because the urethra is quite narrow and the opening so small, it’s a massive issue to get used to catheters with a tiny diameter. From what I hear, it takes a lot of physical and mental fortitude to be able to insert a catheter into that hole, needing good aim and perseverance, and a lot of design goes into making the cath process less traumatic.

            Caths are quite small. Unless a dick was literally a millimetre in diameter, I can’t imagine how that could happen, especially since the vagina is right next to that opening. If you even tried, it would just slip a quarter of an inch towards the opening that would easily accommodate it. It just seems physically impossible.

            e: turns out this did happen, in a case where the woman’s hymen never broke (it had to be surgically opened), and the man was under-endowed. It was a rare and unusual combination of anatomy. I stand corrected and retract my previous edit.

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              The female partner had cribriform hymen and dilated urethral orifice but did not report any problems except infertility and her genital anatomy was normal. The male partner reported concerns over his penile size but was otherwise healthy. After incision of hymen, they were able to have vaginal coitus and successfully conceived. While urethral coitus is rare, it should be suspected in women presenting with infertility and a dilated urethral orifice.

              Just a slightly abnormal physiology, which would be spotted and understood better with better anatomy education.

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          Not going to link it, but in the video I saw, there were two distinct holes behind the hole he was using. So, either he was using a urethra, or she had a second vagina.

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            I’d really love to see that video. I can’t find anything like that. I found one article claiming a couple was using the wrong hole, but it was the anus, not the urethra. There are two holes behind that, if you’re facing a certain way. The urethral opening is so tiny that ‘micropenis’ would have to be a vast overstatement.

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      Dude just wants to bring up everyone’s GPA! No complicated options on how to avoid having a baby too early or stds in the real world. /s I hate deathantis

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    Well lookie here. It’s Big-Government DeSantis creating the Junior Anti-Sex League.

    The Junior Anti-Sex League represents the Party’s efforts to control the most intimate aspects of individuals’ lives in “1984”.

    Unlike Winston, [Julia] had grasped the inner meaning of the Party’s sexual puritanism. It was not merely that the sex instinct created a world of its own which was outside the Party’s control and which therefore had to be destroyed if possible. What was more important was that sexual privation induced hysteria, which was desirable because it could be transformed into war-fever and leader-worship.