Toddling through Salon.com on my way to a tasty hit of God Man, I came across this article whipping the tired old nag of the religious right and their creepy obsession with sex (I mean, I don’t know any heretical secular types who go on about the dirty dirty deed nearly as much as the sort of person who takes dating tips from Leviticus).  What really got me was the following extract from an abstinence only sex education curriculum called ‘Choosing the Best Life’, aimed at 13 and 14 year olds:

“Boys and girls are invited to chew cheese-flavored snacks and then sip some water, after which they are to spit the resulting ‘bodily fluids’ into a cup. After a game in which the fluids are combined with those of other students, ultimately all cups are poured into a pitcher labeled ‘multiple partners’ sitting adjacent to a pitcher of fresh water labeled ‘pure fluids.’ In the final segment, each boy and girl is asked to fill a cup labeled either ‘future husband’ or ‘future wife’ with the contents from one of the pitchers.”

Rather reminiscent of the concerns of one Colonel Jack D. Ripper in the excellent documentary ‘Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’. What sort of convoluted thought process leads to the conclusion that that is somehow a Good Idea as a pedagogic tool.?