When an article about Gay Straight Alliances isn’t about Gay Straight Alliances at all.
By Judi B. • Jun 26th, 2007 • Category: BlogYou know how sometimes you’re riding along at a good speed, enjoying the view, when all of a sudden the motor sputters and seizes up, and you’re jerked to a complete standstill? That’s how I felt when, during Pride Week, this article on http://www.calcatholic.com/ was brought to my attention:
GSAs: not as innocent as they may seem: Gay Straight Alliance promotes sex-toy workshop for youth. (Click here for the story)
Screeech!
The article is about a workshop called “Pleasure Physiology and Sex Toys” that took place on June 14th, hosted GV’s compatriot The Center for Sex and Culture:
The workshop, hosted by the San Francisco-based Center for Sex and Culture, was scheduled for June 14 at the Pacific Center in Berkeley. The Center, said the News, “will encourage your personal sexual exploration in this fun, informative workshop. Join us for a discussion on pleasure physiology and sexual response, and learn how to choose and use sex toys safely.” The workshop, the News, “is for youth 14 and over,” but those “under 18 need permission from a parent/guardian to attend.”
Now, yes, I know this is on a Catholic web site, HOWEVER, I did not expect to see words and thoughts such as these on the reader’s comment board:
First, they asked for acceptance, then the right to “marry” now they want to teach our children how to be perverts-
Is the universe of perverted sexual behavor so saturated with sickness and silliness that the only new thing the homosexualist movement can think of is to con our children into joining them by promoting a new toy?
Since they don’t reproduce and they often die young, they HAVE to recruit children to replenish their ranks.
And these comments from an MD!:
God did not “make them that way.” Homosexuality is a chosen behavior, a disease that would still be identified as such if the A.P.A. had not let themselves be bullied by violence and threats, the same kind of intimidation and violence that pervades the homosexual deathstyle
Same-sex Attraction Disorder (S.A.D.) leads to early death of the body and, if unrepented, eternal death of the soul, so there is nothing “gay” about S.A.D.
Despite two decades of education, homosexuals still tend to be promiscuous and to engage in high risk and often anonymous sex practices (including fisting, torture, sodomy, coprophagy, vampirism, “BUG SEEKING,” and other paraphilias…
Pedophilia? Vampirism? Early death of the body and death of the soul?—Isn’t it crazy how an article about an educational class for young people (14 – 18 needing their parent’s consent!) about sex toys brings these terrible ideas to the surface for some people?
I wish each of these readers could have been in San Francisco this last weekend as every type of person imaginable came together to celebrate diversity and the beauty of acceptance. I wish these readers could listen as Cyndi Lauper throws her hand up during the True Colors tour and sings, “Don’t be afraid….” I wish they could talk to Carol Queen personally for just a few minutes to see what an amazing person she is, and how her positive approach to sex and sexuality just makes sense. (And they’d see that she is probably one of the nicest, most well-spoken people they ever could meet.) I wish they could separate sexuality and religion and let go of judgment and anger and at the very least, learn to tolerate. At the most, learn to accept.
I wish, I wish….
But, alas, there is no arguing with people that think you are a disease, or think that you are “wrong” or “sick” or out to convert their kids. There just isn’t.
So, I think I will just get back in my car, start it back up, pop in a Cyndi CD and start cruising down my own private highway again…cause, watch out everyone, I have a concert to get to!
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Judi B. >> a cake eater and the ex-editor of GV Magazine. Her idea of a perfect day would involve: mimosas in bed, Huevos Rancheros with real red chili, a phone call from her mom, a trip to the dog beach, and cocktails with friends while watching America’s Next Top Model. She shares her life with her hot librarian girlfriend and their two brilliant pit bulls. She has over 80 neck-ties.
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I know that if MY parents were cool enough to have taken me to sex ed when I was 15, I might have been smart enough to avoid some of the uninformed choices I made when I was a teen.
I was the one who suggested the Pacific Center pick up this workshop after i did a similar workshop with them a few months ago.
From my experiences there it was clear that the only thing we were doing was giving the kids a better vocabulary for what they were already engaging in, allowed them to compare quality sex toys to the home made ones they’d figured out how to create using the most amazing assortment of household items.
When I left that group a few months ago, I remember being impressed with how deeply thoughtful, introspective and inventive they were.
They wanted to learn how to love their bodies, how to talk to partners & whether their thoughts were normal. The very same questions that every group asks no matter what the age, gender or orientation!
BTW…what the heck is bug seeking? Is that a fetish I’m missing out on?
And while we’re out it, if god didn’t want people engaging in anal sex wouldn’t he have put one way spikes on assholes? Kinda like when you drive out of paid parking lots?
As Kinsey once said “the only unnatural sex act is one that you can not perform”