Survey: Fla. Teens Believe Drinking Bleach Will Prevent HIV

inmytree
inmytree Posts: 4,740
edited April 2008 in A Moving Train
http://www.local6.com/news/15773787/detail.html

Survey: Fla. Teens Believe Drinking Bleach Will Prevent HIV

Some Teens Also Believe Mountain Dew Will Stop Pregnancy


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POSTED: 1:54 pm EDT April 2, 2008
UPDATED: 4:34 pm EDT April 2, 2008

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A recent survey that found some Florida teens believe drinking a cap of bleach will prevent HIV and a shot of Mountain Dew will stop pregnancy has prompted lawmakers to push for an overhaul of sex education in the state.


The survey showed that Florida teens also believe that smoking marijuana will prevent a person from getting pregnant.

State lawmakers said the myths are spreading because of Florida's abstinence-only sex education, Local 6 reported.

They are proposing a bill that would require a more comprehensive approach, the report said.

It would still require teaching abstinence but students would also learn about condoms and other methods of birth control and disease prevention.

The bill just passed its first vote in a committee, Local 6 reported.
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  • This seriously sounds like something out of a Harmony Korine film.
  • Collin
    Collin Posts: 4,931
    Smart kids :rolleyes:
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  • Yikes! :eek:
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  • Collin
    Collin Posts: 4,931
    This seriously sounds like something out of a Harmony Korine film.

    First thing I did was check the source, I was sure it was going to be The Onion.
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  • Tom K
    Tom K Posts: 842
    it doesn't?.. ah shit.
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  • Collin wrote:
    First thing I did was check the source, I was sure it was going to be The Onion.


    Ha. It's so absurd yet at the same time believable enough to make it really fucking creepy.
  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    well, they are probably right.

    You drink enough bleach, you die.
    You can't get AIDS if you're dead.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • Gremmie95
    Gremmie95 Posts: 749
    and you wonder why this state has problems with elections?!?!?!?!
  • PJ_Saluki
    PJ_Saluki Posts: 1,006
    Good thing our country pushes abstinence first sex edjamakashun. Maybe praying will prevent HIV. If a kid is dumb enough to think a capful of bleach will keep them safe from the HIV, I hope they just chug a bottle of Chlorox and do us all a favor. How fucking dumb do you have to be? Man, stupid, stupid, stupid.
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  • SilverSeed
    SilverSeed Posts: 336
    PJ_Saluki wrote:
    Good thing our country pushes abstinence first sex edjamakashun. Maybe praying will prevent HIV. If a kid is dumb enough to think a capful of bleach and will keep them safe from the HIV, I hope they just chug a bottle of Chlorox and do us all a favor. How fucking dumb do you have to be? Man, stupid, stupid, stupid.

    And how many of these douche bags that will only let people teach abstinence actually kept their dick in their pants through their teenage years? It's called nature, and no matter how hard we hit kids with Bibles (or rape them... ahem, catholics) it won't change anything. It's called accepting reality and doing our best to cope with it. Yes, teens are going to bone. No, Jesus will not help this. Condoms are our friends!
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  • DixieN
    DixieN Posts: 351
    It's appalling what people will believe. People are weird. How do you effectively treat diabetes and a dying patient through prayer alone? How does Coke keep you from getting pregnant? How does drinking bleach prevent HIV except through killing you? How was reelecting George Bush supposed to help us? I don't get any of these things. So many people qualify for Darwin Awards that we'll probably all end up receiving one when the branch "homo sapiens" falls off the evolutionary tree. It seems bound to happen.
  • Kel Varnsen
    Kel Varnsen Posts: 1,952
    inmytree wrote:
    It would still require teaching abstinence but students would also learn about condoms and other methods of birth control and disease prevention.

    It is 2008 and people they are just realizing now that it might be a good idea to teach kids about condoms? Really? That's crazy.
  • chopitdown
    chopitdown Posts: 2,222
    how many is "some"? and let's be honest; it's a survey about sex given to high schoolers I'm sure no one gave any answers to be a smart ass :rolleyes: I'm not saying that some don't believe that, but I'd really like to know how reliable they think the questionnaire is.

    edit: and where are the parents in this? Why aren't parents "parenting" their children and having conversations with them.
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  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 32,361
    on that alone the whole state should not be allowed to vote on the next presidential election holy fuck :eek: ..
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  • chopitdown
    chopitdown Posts: 2,222
    double post
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  • writersu
    writersu Posts: 1,867
    well, dead people can no longer get aids I suppose............

    right???????????
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  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    Drink up kids... it's called, 'Thinning the herd'. No need for you, pissing in the gene pool anymore. Cheers.
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  • in_hiding79
    in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    Cosmo wrote:
    Drink up kids... it's called, 'Thinning the herd'. No need for you, pissing in the gene pool anymore. Cheers.



    hehehehehehehehe lol

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  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    chopitdown wrote:

    edit: and where are the parents in this? Why aren't parents "parenting" their children and having conversations with them.

    This was my question, too.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • even flow?
    even flow? Posts: 8,066
    The best part about sex is shaking up the can of coke and then cracking the top and cleaning my partner out so she dosen't get pregnant. Throw in some poprocks and watch her have another orgasm.
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