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RandySF

(58,737 posts)
Tue Nov 19, 2013, 04:51 AM Nov 2013

"If you take birth control, your mother probably hates you."

Stenzel is a lecturer who, according to her bio, "provide[s] a structured and unambiguous message of abstinence that will mobilize and empower adolescents to make responsible choices​" and claims to speak in-person to about 500,000 young people annually. She makes about $4,000 to $6,000 per appearance and has an extensive line of DVDs. She was also consulted for President George W. Bush's abstinence programs. This April, at George Washington High School in Charleston, West Virginia, a public school, she allegedly made some female students cry by "slut-shaming" them. According to the Charleston Gazette, she said, "If you take birth control, your mother probably hates you" and claimed she could tell which teenagers are promiscuous by looking at them. Stenzel told LifeSiteNews that she never said those things, but acknowledged that her presentation was "a little tough." In her YouTube videos, Stenzel tells students that sex is worse for girls (because they "are much easier to infect and easier to damage&quot . She also asserts that the HPV vaccine "only works on virgins," and that chlamydia—even when treated—is likely to make women infertile, with a 25 percent chance of infertility the first time it's contracted and a 50 percent chance the second time. Her HPV claim is 100 percent false, and her chlamydia statement is mostly false. (Of women with chlamydia who go untreated, about 10 percent will develop pelvic inflammatory disease, which in some cases may cause infertility.)


http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/11/abstinence-speakers-public-schools-lookadoo

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"If you take birth control, your mother probably hates you." (Original Post) RandySF Nov 2013 OP
nonsense... i pay for my daughter's birth control gladly scheming daemons Nov 2013 #1
Sure, what's a little hyperbole. We stopped pot smoking by telling kids it would kill em, right? Warren DeMontague Nov 2013 #2
I remember Pam Stenzel (stupid/evil Christian lady) from my high school days. nomorenomore08 Nov 2013 #3

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
2. Sure, what's a little hyperbole. We stopped pot smoking by telling kids it would kill em, right?
Tue Nov 19, 2013, 04:56 AM
Nov 2013

After they chewed off their neighbor's face going "play faster! play faster!"



So why not employ some creative truth-bending to save these souls from teh pernicious evils of teh sex?

nomorenomore08

(13,324 posts)
3. I remember Pam Stenzel (stupid/evil Christian lady) from my high school days.
Tue Nov 19, 2013, 05:06 AM
Nov 2013

One of the world's most expensive ($6000!) wastes of oxygen.

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