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I learned that America really is having a war on sex and even though I knew of some of the issues that were described in this war, I had not realized that how deep it went and all the things that were actually happening all around me. Throughout the text, he discusses the different people that this war effects, and it was pretty much everyone out there, and it had me wondering why more is not being done to fix this huge problem. I learned quite a bit about the different types of censorship that occur in the media and on the internet which I had no idea existed to such extent and it disturbed me how much control people have over our lives and what we do with them. When Klein uses the comparison on page …show more content…
One of the first things that really shocked me enough to put the book down and just shake my head was on page seventeen when the author provides a quote from the founder of the Silver Ring Thing which is an abstinence only program which preaches inaccurate information to those who follow them. The quote is, “if my own 16-year-old daughter tells me she’s going to be sexually active, I would not tell her to use a condom”, which may be one of the most ridiculous things that I have ever heard. What parent, who knows that their child may become sexually active, would rather have them risk getting a STI or getting pregnant, just because they do not want to tell them how they can protect themselves against these things because they shouldn’t be having sex. That is an extremely messed up way of thinking and it makes me feel sorry for all of those kids of parents who are like that, because they are not even given the chance to protect themselves if they never learn how to. The whole section of, “Yes, they really said that”, was surprising in itself and some of the quotes make me wish that I could reach out and slap the person who said it. Another thing that really shocked me and actually disgusted me what on page 39, the small section about the Pope on AIDS, where Klein discusses that the Pope banned condoms to help stop the AIDS epidemic that is occurring throughout the world, especially in areas of
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What I learned:
I learned that America really is having a war on sex and even though I knew of some of the issues that were described in this war, I had not realized that how deep it went and all the things that were actually happening all around me. Throughout the text, he discusses the different people that this war effects, and it was pretty much everyone out there, and it had me wondering why more is not being done to fix this huge problem. I learned quite a bit about the different types of censorship that occur in the media and on the internet which I had no idea existed to such extent and it disturbed me how much control people have over our lives and what we do with them. When Klein uses the comparison on page …show more content…
One of the first things that really shocked me enough to put the book down and just shake my head was on page seventeen when the author provides a quote from the founder of the Silver Ring Thing which is an abstinence only program which preaches inaccurate information to those who follow them. The quote is, “if my own 16-year-old daughter tells me she’s going to be sexually active, I would not tell her to use a condom”, which may be one of the most ridiculous things that I have ever heard. What parent, who knows that their child may become sexually active, would rather have them risk getting a STI or getting pregnant, just because they do not want to tell them how they can protect themselves against these things because they shouldn’t be having sex. That is an extremely messed up way of thinking and it makes me feel sorry for all of those kids of parents who are like that, because they are not even given the chance to protect themselves if they never learn how to. The whole section of, “Yes, they really said that”, was surprising in itself and some of the quotes make me wish that I could reach out and slap the person who said it. Another thing that really shocked me and actually disgusted me what on page 39, the small section about the Pope on AIDS, where Klein discusses that the Pope banned condoms to help stop the AIDS epidemic that is occurring throughout the world, especially in areas of