“The recently-adopted sex education curriculum in Mississippi includes a lesson comparing sexually-active teenagers to dirty chocolate, the Los Angeles Times reported on Thursday.
“They’re using [a] Peppermint Pattie to show that a girl is no longer clean or valuable after she’s had sex — that she’s been used,” one parent, Marie Barnard, was quoted as saying. “That shouldn’t be the lesson we send kids about sex.”
Barnard told the Times that the lesson, part of the curriculum at her daughter’s school in Tunica, involved students unwrapping the chocolate, then seeing how “dirty” it would get as it was passed around between students.”* Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Michael Shure and John Iadarola break it down on The Young Turks.
*Read more here from Arturo Garcia / Raw Story:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/03/mississippi-sex-education-program-compares-teen-girls-to-dirty-peppermint-patties/