a shitty article about some important findings.

i caught this article from the washington post on feministing this afternoon: apparently the CDC did a longitudinal study on teen sex and condom use and found that the former is heading up while the latter is at least leveling off, if not heading down.

while not wholly surprising, this is still pretty big news, which is why i thought my eyes were going to roll right out of my head when i read past the lede. in some kind of warped attempt to be "balanced," the wapo actually gives credence to the idea that this is all caused by that liberal media messing with our traditional family values.

"Others blamed the onslaught of movies, books, advertising and cultural messages that glamorize sex.

'It's highly ironic this comes out right after the launch of the biggest movie of the season, which is 'Sex in the City.' The No. 1 movie that all teenage girls want to see right now is 'Sex in the City,' ' said Charmaine Yoest of the Family Research Council. "Our culture continues to tell them the way to be cool is to dress provocatively and to consider non-marital sexual activity to be normative."

they also conveniently forgot to mention that the $126 million allocated for sex ed this year is ALL for programs that teach to the federal A-H definition of abstinence-only education [which is here if you want to read its scary backwardness in detail]. wapo makes it sound like we've been pouring a bunch of money into teaching kids about sex but, darn it, they just won't listen. i'm also fairly certain they have their numbers wrong, since in 2007, the government $176 million on these programs without this supposed $50 million increase congress is working on.

way to go, guys. can't wait for your fair and balanced coverage of this as it continues to crash and burn in the faces of the family research council and its diaspora.