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Straight White American Jesus

The Orange Wave, Ep. 7: Sexless Ed

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

Politics, News

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

You might be surprised to learn that the history of sex ed in the USA is a religious history. Christians were not always the enemies of science-based sex education programs. But during the 1960s, the Religious Right began a war against comprehensive sex education. Since then, it has been able to implement abstinence-only sex ed programs through tens of millions of dollars in federal funding. Where did this war start? Who are its major players? And why are evangelicals so afraid of condoms? This episode include an interview with Dr. Kristy Slominski, Assistant Professor of Religion, Health, and Science at the University of Arizona, and the author of the forthcoming book Teaching Moral Sex: A History of Religion and Sex Education in the United States.  Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I converted to Evangelicalism at the end of my eighth grade year.

0:55.5

If you remember being 14, it's that sweet spot where youthful ignorance meets raging

1:00.4

hormones.

1:01.7

The land of bad first kisses and awkward public displays of affection.

1:06.2

Despite the best efforts of my father to give me the talk and the winter of that year,

1:11.1

it was past the time for education on what sex is, how it works, and how to do it safely.

1:17.1

My friends and I had already crowdsourced that information based on a mix of lessons

1:21.0

from older siblings, rumors told at lunchtime, and limited first-hand experience.

1:28.8

When I converted to Evangelicalism, my youth leaders quickly convinced me that Matthew

1:32.4

527 should be the foundation for my approach to love and sex.

1:37.8

This is where Jesus explains that anyone who lusts after someone who is not their spouse

1:41.8

commits adultery in their heart.

1:44.0

That means, my youth ministers explained, no making out in the movie theater, no sneaky

1:49.1

hookups at inspiration point.

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