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A Jestful conversation with my aunt and mother at the beach prompted me to sign up for the great american condom compaign, and shortly after receiving confirmation of winning, my curiosity led me around amplify and through some google searches on sexual health in North Carolina. I was shocked by what I saw and am very happy to be able to help make a change towards a healthier world. Issues I'm interested in? Finding a sensible stance on human freedom: freedom. Abortion is the choice of the people involved and ONLY the people involved. No, your religious beliefs aren't relevant in the least. You're entitled to believe them, and to share them, but not to enforce them, government official or not. Contraceptive access and sexual education: I'm too tired of signing onto facebook and seeing my eighteen and nineteen year-old friends pregnant to someone they've been dating for three months. It's a time for changes, but not diaper changes. Teens need to be educated on forms of contraceptives, how they work, how to get them, and the importance of them, so abortion/being a teen mother doesn't even have to figure into the equation. Abstinence, sex in culture and in the media: We're teaching only Abstinence in the majority of schools and yet our society teaches seduction and positions on TV, teaches young girls its never too early to show cleavage via the malls, all the while banning condom commercials. Telling the youth of america nothing about how to have safe sex, all the while influencing them into a highly sexually-driven lifestyle discreetly, and telling them sex is bad to top it off? getting us nowhere. GLBTQ Rights? is a 'question' trumped completely by fundamental human rights and the rights of ALL citizens of our country. Why this is even an issue is beyond me, and it saddens me greatly.

by:  zemadone
Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 11:31:00 AM EST
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Or at least some faces in it are. I'm hugely against private stories like Rihanna's abuse becoming publicly scrutinized for hours a day on prime-time TV, but her reaction to the situation has charmed me tremendously to the point I think I may actually turn on my TV at some point this month. While she has had a hard time leaving Chris Brown, she feels she doesn't have any other choice. Why's this? It can take spousal abuse victims many attacks before they gain the courage to leave their partner, and by then it may be too late. She feels that by taking him back, with the national attention she receives, she would be propagating into the minds of young women an example that could potentially be fatal if followed. Kudos to you (or your PR advisor) for instead sharing these wise statements, they warmed my cynicism a bit.

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