While Colorado has been busy launching an interactive sex ed website, and MTV's filming safe sex specials with celebrities and the CDC, lawmakers in Massachusetts are burning the midnight oil to have a government funded sex education site shut down.
It's called Maria Talks, and it's put together by the AIDS Action Committee (AAC) to help educate young people about sex, safe sex, how to handle pregnancy, and so much more. Maria is a fictional 18-year-old girl who isn't embarrassed to talk about sex, and will answer any question you have via email or hotline. And some lawmakers are … disgusted.
“This website uses inappropriate and crude language to describe sexual acts. This website describes abortion in an extremely insensitive manner, downplays the mental and psychological damages, and advises teenage girls how to circumvent the parental notification requirements,” said state Rep. Mark Lombardo.
“I feel that to have spend the hard earned money of the people across our Commonwealth in this way is a shameful thing,” said state Rep. Betty Poirier.
Educating our kids on how to safely have sex since they're having it anyway is “shameful”? Right … Fortunately, the state Department of Public Health says it's keeping Maria's site open.
It's called Maria Talks, and it's put together by the AIDS Action Committee (AAC) to help educate young people about sex, safe sex, how to handle pregnancy, and so much more. Maria is a fictional 18-year-old girl who isn't embarrassed to talk about sex, and will answer any question you have via email or hotline. And some lawmakers are … disgusted.
“This website uses inappropriate and crude language to describe sexual acts. This website describes abortion in an extremely insensitive manner, downplays the mental and psychological damages, and advises teenage girls how to circumvent the parental notification requirements,” said state Rep. Mark Lombardo.
“I feel that to have spend the hard earned money of the people across our Commonwealth in this way is a shameful thing,” said state Rep. Betty Poirier.
Educating our kids on how to safely have sex since they're having it anyway is “shameful”? Right … Fortunately, the state Department of Public Health says it's keeping Maria's site open.