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It's funny how the internet brings people together.

Last night, I went to bed not knowing who Brooklyn Wilson was, but by the time I got to work this morning, Brooklyn Wilson was my new favorite person.

Thanks to the internet, thanks to a blog post that Hemet Mata wrote about her at pathias.com where he blogs as

the friendly atheist.

Brooklyn is a student at Jenks High School in Jenks, Oklahoma.

It's a public school, and that matters.

And Brooklyn is a senior there.

And the entire senior class was herded into an auditorium for a sex education program.

And Brooklyn was appalled by what she heard, appalled by what she was told at that program.

Things like boys are waffles, able to compartmentalize sex the way waffles can compartmentalize butter in one

indentation and syrup in another, but girls, girls are different, girls are spaghetti. Sex gets all

mixed up with everything else like your feels and stuff. Brooklyn, angry and annoyed and rightly so, took to Facebook. So today our school decided

to have a sex ed class given to the entire senior class, Brooklyn wrote. As usual, this sex ed

class was based around the idea of abstinence, both a clearly unrealistic and an effective

approach to teaching safe sex. I'm going to interrupt Brooklyn right here to say,

you're absolutely right, Brooklyn, 95% of students, kids don't wait for marriage to become sexually active.

And research over and over and over again, stacks and stacks of research has demonstrated

that abstinence education not only doesn't work, kids don't wait, it backfires. Kids who've had only abstinence-only education are likelyer to contract a

sexually transmitted infection and likelyer to have an unplanned pregnancy.

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