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Planned Parenthood’s Facebook page for Teens: ‘Stop the Slut-Shaming’

By Penny Starr

First you put your two hips close up tight... Photo from Planned Parenthood’s Facebook page for teens.
Francisco Ramirez “your favorite
sexpert” is featured prominently on
Planned Parenthood’s Facebook
page for teenagers. Francisco’s
message to teenage girls: “Be
proud to be a slut.”
Margaret Higgins Sanger (1879 –
1966) an American birth control
activist, sex “educator,” and nurse
coined the term “birth control”,
opened the first birth control clinic
in the United States and established
Planned Parenthood. On blacks, immigrants and indigents, she wrote, they are:“human weeds,’ ‘reckless breeders,’ ‘spawning… human beings who never should have been born.”

CNSNews.com

Planned Parenthood’s Facebook page, “Planned Parenthood Info for Teens,” includes sexual content, including a link to an MTV program, “Sextra Credit Episode 2,” focusing on the meaning of the word “slut.”

“Find a seat in the class and let Francisco school you with his lecture on slutty slander!,” the teaser above the video states when a visitor clicks on the line on Planned Parenthood’s Facebook page.

“A lot of people define slut as someone who has too much sex or too many partners – but according to who?” Francisco asks.

“The slut fairy?”

Francisco continues by sharing the “positive” side to being called a slut.

“But did you know that some people use slut in a positive way?, Francisco says. “They use it to define a woman who is confident in her sexuality and being the sexual being that she is.... I personally think there’s a little bit of slut in all of us.”

“Why is it that when girls have lots of sex they’re sluts, but when guys have it, they’re studs?” Francisco asks. “Not only does that make zero sense, but it’s also totally unfair.

“So hey, stand up for equality,” Francisco says. “Stop the slut-shaming.”

There is also a link to Seventeen Magazine: “We’re taking sex questions over at Seventeen Magazine,” the teaser to the link says.

If the Facebook visitor clicks on the link, they are taken to the part of the magazine’s website where Planned Parenthood’s offers “expert advice” to teens’ questions about sex, including graphic descriptions of oral sex.

Planned Parenthood’s Facebook page for teens also has links to its affiliates, clinics and political action organizations.

The “timeline” on the page provides dates, such as the launch of Planned Parenthood and information on topics ranging from the average age a girl starts menstruation to “facts” that encourage girls to masturbate.

US taxpayers pay about $480 million a year to support the organization which is almost half of Planned Parenthood’s annual budget.

 

 

Niagara Falls Reporter www.niagarafallsreporter.com Sep 25 , 2012