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physician trying to help patients and i </p><br /><p>remember so clearly studying that first wave of scientific reports on hiv, trying to comprehend what seemed to be an incomprehensible condition. i will never forget the bitter stigma that surrounded the patients that were struggling to care for. </p><br /><p>and i'll never forget the courage of people across this country who stepped forward and try to make a difference in the face of this new threat. since then we all know how this virus has literally exposed the fault lines of our society and now, 30 years later, ironically, </p><br /><p>we have a new generation that has arisen that has little to no knowledge of of those early dark days. so today, we share stories, not only past fear and confusion, but also of tremendous caring, passion, compassion and leadership. </p><br /><p>today you will hear the perspectives and the stories of the secretary and many other leaders in this room. you will hear tremendous stories of scientific advances and progress and we want to celebrate with you, your commitment and the unveiling of </p><br /><p>a new generation of leaders who care deeply about these issues and share with you passion and compassion, understanding of the worried passion means to suffer and the word compassion means to suffer with. it's so critical we share these stories today to build our </p><br /><p>community. there's a wonderful thing that a sorrow shared is half the sorrow and a joy shared is twice the joy, so that's why we are hold thanksgiving important meeting today and--holding this important meeting today and working closely with you as we </p><br /><p>try to put this epidemnick our past, of course--unveiled, the national hiv/aids strategy, a great pleasure to work with leaders like jeff crowley, and we want to thank all of you for your hard work on implementing, and very honored to be part of the effort of the assistant </p><br /><p>secretary on behalf of the secretary, i want to particularly acknowledge the contributions of our office of hiv/aids and infectious disease policy. the work of aids .gov, led by miguel gomez and i want recognize dr. ron who is heading </p><br /><p>the implementation of that office. is ron here? just wave and stand up and get a wave of applause, thank you. >> so in closing we note that the history of hiv/aids began some 30 years ago in an era of fear and death and we hope with </p><br /><p>this anniversary, we mark a new chapter that is marked more by hope and promise for the future. we need each of you now to do more than ever before, to deliver your healing touch and rich education, advance research, promote prevention and advocate for the vulnerable. </p><br /><p>we have made so much progress in this past 30 years, we look forward to the day then together with you we can say that this devastating disease is part of our past and not our future. thank you very, very much. [ applause ] so i am delighted now to </p><br /><p>introduce a tremendous community leader, miss dazon dixon diallo, founder of sister love inc. corporated this, is an important women based corporation in the southeast. she is a woman with tremendous passion and compassion and i want to thank her for joining us </p><br /><p>here. thank you. >> oh, thank you, so much, dr. koh, and thank you all for being here and for being here. alverna denise, konn, debbie thomas, janis geroh, martin delainey, willie brown, pandora singleton, are--administrativure </p><br /><p>ash, so many hundreds of thousands of others are also glad for you being and being in the summer of 1981, i was a 16 year-old rising senior at peach county high school, that's how we say it in ft. valley, georgia. one of those places where it </p><br /><p>took a bit longer to get the word about this strange new deadly illness that we same came to know as aids. now by 1985, i was a college sophomore in atlanta, but i was also ready and working and advocating for women's reproductive rights and by the </p><br /><p>end of that same year, thanks to rock hudson's famous disclosure, that's another longer story, i was volunteering at our local aids service organization. now since that time, i have founded and confounded several organizations including sister love, which will be 22 years old </p><br /><p>next month. i've planned and participate in demonstrations with everyone from act up to the treatment action campaign. i've work wide community planning for prevention andrian white planning for treatment and care. </p><br /><p>i've buried more friends and colleagues than most of my college classmates will ever bury before they become seniors. i've married and divorced a man who loved me but not enough to hang with me in this fight. i have foregone spending summers and some holidays with family to </p><br /><p>sit with sick clients or write another grant or attend another meeting. i have met and work wide so many amazing, smart, dedicated and giving souls and i have a community, that's y'all, that really understands and identifies with me and my </p><br /><p>passion to thepbd disease and its terrible impact on individuals, families, communities, and even nations. and i've learned to keep looking forward and envisioning a future in which there's no hiv or aids and to keep working to bring that future into my presence </p><br /><p>because that's what all those people for whom the end of this pandemic comes too late, i have learned that love really does conquer all even when we don't know it, see it, or feel it. know, you know we've been in this for a very long time and i swear i thought, back in the </p><br /><p>mid80s, that by this time in my life, i would be running a bed and brunch on a beach somewhere writing what i call nonfiction erotica. i think that's still in nigh future. --my future. [laughter] </p><br /><p>but we have still come a long way. despite how far we've come with creating evidence based strategies, with having life saving, quality of life giving treatments, and a network of social service providers and educators and supporters and </p><br /><p>peer leaders, finally having a national stat edge a plan that we can all get behind and work with reguardless of some of the challenges we still put to that plan, we still have a long way to go. why i live and work in the south, no, the deep south, which </p><br /><p>is way more than a geographic distinction stigma still exists, i'm still waiting for my more than magic campaign, y'all got that one? discrimination has not yet been eradicated and people living with hiv/aids are still a target of discrimination, and </p><br /><p>disclosure in terms of family, employment and dignity. and while our strategy is not a perfect tool, it is the tool we have to work with. we're also having to keep the fight and defending the prioritization of hiv/aids. that's why i'm still here. </p><br /><p>because even though i know i'm in the business to put myself out of business, i'm not here to go out of business. and given the fact taken--they we have thousands of people on the eight appspace list, halfful whom are in georgia and florida, the news today and usa today </p><br /><p>tells us that we're still not catching them early enough to keep them alive longer. we still have a lot to do. which means you yet, cannot rest. you still must find your inspiration and your energy, you still must call the name and </p><br /><p>remember them and call on them as your own soul guides. we must continue to figure out ways to lift up the importance and meaningful engagement of people living with hiv. i am reminded that from the beginning of this epidemic community has always, always </p><br /><p>been in the forefront. we've been in the front of science, in the front of policy, social, cultural, attitudes and ideas. we have affected change in every seconder. we have galvanized systems, but it seems to me in the last </p><br /><p>couple of years, at least where i live and work, some, it's like a be careful what you ask for thing, where community has now fallen a little bit behind the science and the policy. policy in s in front of us, that doesn't necessarily mean, we're going to solve all of these </p><br /><p>problems just with science and just with policy. i want to hear--i'm here to remind you that while science, research and policy, might be the body of the end of this epidemic, the community, civil society, civil service, people living with hiv are its soul. </p><br /><p>body and soul, we work it, we work it together, we work it as one. so i'm going to be here till the end of this thing, and i'm just going to continue to wake up every day, call on our collective ancestry of people who are no longer here as a </p><br /><p>result of hiv and aids and do the good work that we need to do together. now it is miable absolute pleasure and--absolute pressure and distinct honor to introduce a woman who may not need an introduction but you're going to get one anyway. </p><br /><p>in her two years as secretary of health and human services, secretary kathleen sebelius has been a champion for improving our healthcare system and fighting the hiv/aids epidemic. in fact, she combined these sites to make clear that comprehensive healthcare </p><br /><p>americans, that help people living with hiv and aids and as a person who has fought for reproductive justice since the age of 17, i personally thank her for fighting to protect reproductive health and family planning services for youth and for women across this great </p><br /><p>nation. ladies and gentlemen, comrades, secretary sebelius. >> well, i want to start by thanking dazon for not only that kind introduction but for her amazing work over years. she has tireless leadership in the fight against hiv/aids and </p><br /><p>every day through her work and her example gives hope and courage to some of the most vulnerable women and families around the world so let's thank her again please for being with us today. and i also want to thank dr. koh, howard koh, who has the </p><br /><p>assistant secretary of health has tackled a number of issues and has taken leadership roles in a number of areas but i can tell you his experience and passion has inspired him to be particularly focused on our continued battle our national strategic plan, our efforts on </p><br /><p>hiv and aids and thank howard for continuing that battle. you will hear from some remarkable health leaders who have been generous enough today to share their personal stories with us and i'm struck by looking at this audience that we have an interesting combination </p><br /><p>of health expertise and some of have you been in this battle from day one and we're going to talk about for others were not awhen this story first began. so some of this is important history for you to understand and know about. but today, we're here to </p><br /><p>remember those we've lost to the pandemic and to honor those who continue to fight against the virus and fight for a cure. we're here to mark the gains made over the last three decades and to look ahead with hope and purpose at the next steps swraoe to take in this fight in the </p><br /><p>battle. the story of the first 30 years has been one of great commitment, discovery and collaboration, but it's also a story of great uncertainty and terrible loss. more than 600,000 americans have died long before they should </p><br /><p>have, 600,000 these quilt squares represent just a few of those souls. world wide more than 30 million people are living with hiv today including two and half million children. it can be easy to focus on all the data, the dollars, the </p><br /><p>scientific milestones that we so often use to measure our progress and they're important but we can't ever forget that the story of hiv/aids is one of countless individual human lives. now there's so many of us in this room today who never </p><br /><p>thought this disease would still be with us three decades later. and as i said earlier, there's some of you here who weren't alive when this epidemic began and just think about that, a generation of people who have never lived in a world without this virus being present. </p><br /><p>and in this age of advanced treatments when hiv is no longer a deth sentence for many, it can be easy to forget how scary those early years were. when it was first discovered no one new how the disease was spread and we didn't know what caused the disease. </p><br /><p>what we did nonapoptotic know is that it almost certainly meant death. when advocate compare these early years to live nothing a war zone, we were never sure when the next bomb would drop and with that uncertainty came a lot of fear and with the fear </p><br /><p>came enormous prejudice. children likerian white were turned away from their schools because they were hiv positive. tenants were locked out of their apartments and forced to live on the streets. workers were fired from the jobs they had held for decades. </p><br /><p>sons and daughters lying in hospital beds were abandoned by their families and loved ones. and treatment was very hard to come by unless you qualified for medicaid or could keep a job that provided insurance. and the treatments that we had were not very effective and </p><br /><p>certainly not as effective as anyone would have wished. and our national government was frankly very slow to act and so, it was community organizations, springing up on street corners, around the country, the soul that dazon just talked about that connected people, educated </p><br /><p>them about how to protect themselves, battle discrimination and got this nation's attention employed and they taught us most poignantly that silence equals death. now many of you know this story because you lived it. you went on to build strong </p><br /><p>coalitions that included government, community based groups, employers health professionals and individuals with aids coming together with a sense of urgency to develop better approaches for treating and reducing the spread of the disease. </p><br /><p>no single narrative can do justice to our journey over the last three decades. there are instead a million individual stories, sewn together by a shared hope for progress. science must keep moving forward, prevention must reach </p><br /><p>even further and be even more effective and all people living with hiv and aids must have better access to treatment and care they need whether they live in washington d. c. or in a village outside of naorobi. in over some time, short time, science took who was once an </p><br /><p>impenetrable mystery and get answers. the kind of answers that worked in the lab but also save lives and thanks to the work and ingenuity of scientist and doctors if at places like the centers for disease and control prevention and national intuitys </p><br /><p>of health and food and drug administration and our own hrsa, new effective therapies and treatment and tools for prevention came online. today there are more than 30 license drugs that are widely available in the developed world and have begun to transform hiv </p><br /><p>into a chronic disease adding years to people's lives. but we know that that progress is not enough and it's why presidenpresident obama has made the fight against hiv and arounded world a top priority for his administration, including the first ever development of a </p><br /><p>national aids strategy that's providing direction and focus to our efforts. the battle isn't over, as long as this virus threatens the health and live lives of people here and around the globe, the struggle continues. and so, on this had day in this </p><br /><p>place, we need to remember the words of mother jones who told us to pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living and that's what we're going to do. thank you and now i'd like to turn things back over to richard and you'll hear from some of our </p><br /><p>terrific leaders. >> thank you madam secretary and thank you for joining us. the secretary is now going to an event to promote childcare and healthy childcare for children, so she's fighting on every level, so we appreciate our--her taking time. </p><br /><p>let me welcome you again to the great hall. we call this the great hall but until today i never really thought of it as great. i wish we could keep these quilt panels forever because this--this is life. this is what this is all about. </p><br /><p>so, take a moment when you can to just look at the quilt panels and remember, these people and all the people that were close to you. ellie b sells was an author and a survivor and he taught us that whatever you survive the test, must also tell the story and </p><br /><p>that's in part why we're here today. when hiv start indeed 1981, i was 23 years old, i was in nigh first job, and i was a journalist here in washington, writing about healthcare policy, who knew? and i wrote some of the earlier </p><br /><p>news stories about a disease that didn't have a name or didn't have a descent name near a period of time and i never thought that 30 years later, i would still be working in some or part of my life on this epidemic, not just working, but living through 30 years and so </p><br /><p>many people and i'm glad. i'm glad that i am not because the epidemic has lasted this long, but because it's changed my life the way it has changed the lives of of everybody, not for the worse but also for the better. so one of the things we need tow </p><br /><p>do is remember remember and not forget. and as a secretary remind the us, there's a generation of of people who have grown up in this world never knowing a day without hiv in our lives. and there will be generations to come and we need to make sure </p><br /><p>that today, but also when the epidemic is over, they remember where we came from. so, we've got a short video before the rest of our speakers join us and i hope you'll find this to be both informative and enriching. so i think they're going to cue </p><br /><p>that up. >> june 5th, 1981, the cdc published a morbidity and mortality weekly report describing cases of a rare pneumonia in otherwise healthy young gay men in los angeles. >> but it was from those reports that the great epidemic of aids </p><br /><p>began to mushroom and we were in the midst of it before we knew it. >> didn't know what it was but i'd made a decision then in the middle of the summer of 198 1981 that i was actually going to change the direction of my career and start bringing into </p><br /><p>the hospital and studying these unusual situations of gay men who had this strange disease. >> when the pattern went from gay men to injecting drug users and then finally to persons with hemophilia, there could really only be a unifying hypothesis, a viral agent that could be </p><br /><p>transmitted through a variety of means. >> once we got the virus in our hands, namely in 1984 and 1985, then we began to study in earnest some of the pathogenic events. >> by the time the virus was discovered, there were more than </p><br /><p>500,000 people infect indeed the united states and millions world wide. >> we saw really, ended up follow negligent aids clinic about 25,000 patients with hiv. the average person we would see would have four or five oportunistic infections and more </p><br /><p>to come. >> aids was and is a public health problem but one with many social and political facets. >> the aids communities response was a mixture of insider and outsider tactics. so sitting down with policy makers and trying to sit down </p><br /><p>and find out a solution. at the same time street demonstrations. >> the activists were making extremely good points about the uniqueness of this, the need to do more, the need to be less rigid in our regulatory approaches towards the approval </p><br /><p>and testing of new drugs and the rigidity and lack of flexibility in how we design clinical trials. >> 1985 was the year that a boy with hemophilia withrian white was barred from attending school becausely was infect wide hiv. the same year actor rock hudson </p><br /><p>died of aids, bringing attention to the disease in a way no one had before. in 19 ketch the aids memory responsor--1987, the aids memorial quilt was displayed at a national mall. the following year, dr. coop's message: happening aids was </p><br /><p>mailed to every household in america. >> in 1990,rian white died at the age of 18 and kong pass theletrian white care act providing access to treatment for uninsured people with because of the hiv virus that i have attained, i will have to </p><br /><p>retire from ... >> the following year basketball star magic johnson held a press conference that changed the way many people thought about the early 90s were marked with progress, despite some set backs. in 1994 an nih trial found azt </p><br /><p>was shown to prevent transmission from mother to infant during child burg, the first protease inhibitor was approve indeed 1995, a huge advance in managing hiv infection. however, aids remained the leading cause of death for </p><br /><p>african americans. >> we were 25% folks impacted by hiv in 1986 and yet, you know the response in black communities and the delivery of services at that time primarily prevention and awareness, the black communities were disproportionately low. </p><br /><p>>> by 2002, half the people living with hiv world wide were women. >> for women to recognize the risk espegsz especially for heterosexual women and latino women in the u.s., i think risk awareness is still a very, very, very big challenge. </p><br /><p>>> as the epidemic entered its third decade is turned global. in 2003 president bush announced the president emergency program for aids relieve or pepfar, providing millions of dollars to treat aids around the world. >> pepfar, is remarkable, we were now at two th-pbt three </p><br /><p>million people on antiretroviral treatment, all of whom would have died. it's a remarkable contribution that the american people would feel proud of. >> now it's part of president obama's health global issue and it's taken a bigger </p><br /><p>impact now because it's been linked to other health problems. >> today we're releasing our national hiv/aids strategy. announce indeed 2010, president obama's aids strategy was aimed at preventing infections, preventing access to care and reducing disparities. </p><br /><p>i think we are in a period of time where we have the tools to end aids epidemnick america today and across the globe and it's critically important and it's exciting. >> wow, 30 years and five minutes. i think i got a few more gray </p><br /><p>hairs and several of the people who are kind enough to participate and give us their memories and their thoughts are here today and i want to thank them as well. the the word hero is overused so i'll try not to use it too often. </p><br /><p>i'll just say our next speaker is a hero of mine and a leader throughout this epidemic. let me introduce tony fauci. >> thank you very much richard. it is an honor and a privilege to be here this morning to commemorate this extraordinary time in our history. </p><br /><p>30 years of hiv/aids. looking around the room, i don't know whether it's true or not, but i may be the only person here who has spent his entire professional career in the department of health and human services. --for a very long time so it's </p><br /><p>really good to be here with you in this building. i just want to take a couple of minutes to share with you the kinds of reflections that those of us who were there from the very first day had when we saw the unfolding of this historic and extraordinarily tragic </p><br /><p>event, the emergence and evolution of the beginning of this hiv/aids pandemic. as i often say when i talk to people about subjects like this and similar subjects. it is really quite true that when you're living through or beginning to live through </p><br /><p>historic event, you don't really appreciate that it's historic until you actually reflect back on it. it's sort of a quirk about history. you don't say wow, i woke up today, this happened. it's going to be historic but it </p><br /><p>really has been a historic event that has brought out in many respects, the best and the worst in people throughout the world, but having been through it from the beginning, i can say now, that the ultimate experience is one that has brought out some of the fineasty qualities of man </p><br /><p>kind. i--you saw in the clip there, i remember, very clearly there are things in your life that you remember and know exactly where you were. i was sitting in my office at the national institutes of health in bethesda doing my job </p><br /><p>of working on basic and clinical research when this mmwr that you saw on the screen landed o landed on my desk. june 5th, 1981, and i remember reading it, what a curiosity, five men from los angeles curiously all gay, otherwise well, with a disease that i knew </p><br /><p>very well is an infectious disease physician is only seen in people with suppressed immune systems. i thought it was a curious that would go away and then one month laterot fourth of july of 1981, a similar mmwr landed on my desk, now reporting 26 men again </p><br /><p>curiously all gay men now from la, san francisco and new york city, not only from pneumocystic nope ownia but also with capper cyst onoma. i got goose bumps because i knew this was something new and something horrible but i never in my wildest dreams what would </p><br /><p>imagine for us what would unfold in this country and throughout the world. i'm very proud to have been in this organization, in the services and at the nih, during those early years, when we were struggling from both the scientific and public health </p><br /><p>standpoint about how we were going to address this pandemic. i refer to it, as the dark years of my professional career because unless you've done it, it is difficult to describe what it's like to have people come in who are suffering and dying and you don't have it, an idea or a </p><br /><p>clue about what is going on with them, you suspect its an infection, epidemiology tells you it's sexually transmitted. also later on injection drug use but yet you don't know what to do with the patients except palliative care and it was over the period of those three </p><br /><p>decades with support from so many groups here in the department, through the department at nih, through multiple administrations and multiple turnovers of congress that we had the resources to put into effect a scientific research both basic and clinical </p><br /><p>attack on this pandemic to the point where we now, 30 years into it have the capability of really putting an end to the aids epidemic. there are certainly scientific gaps. we still don't have a vaccine. there are implementation gaps, </p><br /><p>we still have not been able to get penetration into communities, voluntary testing, linking to care and treatment of individuals which we know now treatment conserves prevention, so there are many, many challenges ahead. it's both humbling but also </p><br /><p>energizing to realize that we've come a very, very, long way. but in the same breath as we realize that in the same thought that we assimmulate that, it is clear that we have a very long way to go. so although we are now three decades entering into our fourth </p><br /><p>decade of this pandemic, i would hope that a day like today where we come together and remember the experiences we have that we reconfirm and recommit ourselves to the important tasks ahead because as i've said very often, we as a global society are going to be judged as much as the </p><br /><p>advanced that were made over the previous 30 years. we're going to be judged even more by what we do in the coming years because we now have the opportunity from both a domestic and a global standpoint to put an end to this pandemic and i can tell you all in this room </p><br /><p>that i will do everything i can to stay in this fight as long as i can and hopefully one of these days, i'm going to come down to this great auditorium and talk to you about not the challenges of the future but a commemoration of something in the past that is now over. </p><br /><p>>> thank you, tony. one of the things that dr. fauci's remarks reminded me, its become fashionable again lately to use public employees as punching bags, to talk about bureaucrats and about government people needing to work harder and all that. </p><br /><p>we have to remember that, you know many of them, not all, but many of the scientists in the public health professionals and caregivers and others that were working on this epidemic from the beginning worked here at this department in various parts of it, worked in other parts of </p><br /><p>the government, work indeed state government, so there are a lot of public service heroes, that continue to do that work every day and we need to remember that there's scientists, physicians, public health officials but they're also colleagues. </p><br /><p>so thank you for that. i first met daniel montoya when he first came to his work here in washington d. c. and we worked together over at the white house national aids policy and did traveling around the country and find out what was going on on the ground. </p><br /><p>of course daniel knows better than most anyone i know and he has been an advocate and an outspoken leader on this epidemic for a number of years and now serves as the deputy director of nmac, the national minority aids council at one of our leading organizations. </p><br /><p>daniel will share his thoughts. >> thank you, richard, and good morning to everyone. i would certainly like to thank the department of health and human services for hosting today's symposium. it's fortunate take a moment to reflect and 30 years is that </p><br /><p>moment to reflect. this administration is demonstrated a laudable commitment to fight thanksgiving epidemand i can will be a critical ally as we enter the fourth decade of the struggle. i would also like to thank my distinguished panelists, some of </p><br /><p>whom i worked with and for. i'm extremely honored to be in the presence of such an amazing and and so many of you and--i started that opportunity here in january hyde like to recognize the staff of the national minorities council especially executive director paul who </p><br /><p>allowed me the opportunity to come back in this role to be able to advocate more directly. the national minority aids council represents faith based and community based organization, as well as aids service organization as well as advocating and delivering </p><br /><p>hiv/aids service of of communities nationwide. since 1987 nmac has delivered a variety of campaign, advocacy, public campaign programs, national conferences, research programs, capacity building, technical assistance and treatment and training and </p><br /><p>digital and electronic recourse materials. like so many gay men of my generation, i got involved in aids advocacy because of the epidemic impact on me directly. i was diagnosed with hiv 24 years ago. and i make the point to say </p><br /><p>diagnosed instead of living with because for years after aids was first discovered there was no test for the vermen infectederous. i fine--for the virus. i finally tested and got the courage for it in 1987 but no idea how long hibeen positive </p><br /><p>before that, because up to that we had already been practicing safe sex and using condoms which was spear headed a lot by the luckily i responded well to treatment and have lived a relatively healthy life. however many of my friends, family members and loved ones </p><br /><p>were not so lucky. after being diagnosed, i reevaluated my priorities, abandoning a job i had looked for and longed for in terms of working on wall street to come back to texas and work for change. and while i haven't looked back, </p><br /><p>i do look back in terms of remembering why it is that i continue to fight this fight for all those neme i sat at their bedside who were dying and for the promises i made to them to continue this fight. i think it's important to note some aspects that i think has </p><br /><p>happened over the 30 years that are significant because there has been significant progress over the last three decades and i also must take time to really thank some of the trailblazers i mentioned earlier in the gay community and organization like account up, the gay men's health </p><br /><p>crisis, project inform and several others because of them, the public was forced to address the growing epidemand i can as a result of these early efforts and support of the nation's medical community, today infection rate vs dropped from a peak of 130,000 a year in the </p><br /><p>1980s to about 56,000 currently. unfortunately, the annual infection rate has not budged for about a decade holding study at 56,000. our nation's prevention efforts seem to have hit a wall and while there are many reasons for this including adequate funding, </p><br /><p>lack of efz based and age appropriate sex education programs and general complacency about the disease is an issue that we need attention on. the continued disproportionate of the impact of the virus on minority community itself also proposes challenges. </p><br /><p>in the african american community where infection rates are seven times as high as caucasian, a prevalence of the virus makes each encounter considerably riskier. this is why idebtifying evidence based prevention tool is so critical; it's easy to aassume </p><br /><p>that everybody will use condoms 100% of the time. whatever the excuse for use not using condoms whether it's lack of intimacy, education or prevention, it's critical to expand our judgment. if white heterosexual men or women have unprotected sex just </p><br /><p>once, that chance for contracting the rihave you seen is significantly lower than two black men having a homosexual encounter. as long as those exist, those in the prevention community will face an uphill battle. but this is where science has </p><br /><p>provided potential break throughs. the promise of preand post exposure prophylaxis could prevent in transmission, of course the cost associate wide wide implementation of p. r. e. p. pose significant challenges. but recent studies point to the </p><br /><p>efficacy of treatment as prevention offer possibly the best hope for a practical approach to expanding prevention efforts. a study released last month reviewed serodiscord ant couples found that early and sustaped treatment of antiviral </p><br /><p>medications reduce the risk of transmitting the virus to your partner by as much as 90%. for minority communities facing sieve 95 cantily higher load and prevalence, this is a hugely promising development. assuming we can get everyone diagnosed on hiv, this could </p><br /><p>significantly reduce the risk of transmission with each sexual encounter even in groups with highest viral burden like gay black men. the critical point in that last statement is whether we can insure that all people live pregnant hiv can get on drug </p><br /><p>therapy. currently more than 2 million people living with hiv in the united states are unaware of their status. any effort to enroll all those into antiretroviral therapy would require a renewed push around testing. </p><br /><p>it would also require avenues to insure that people can access care once they're diagnosed. current programs are simply inadequate. medicaid for example requires at least currently a person is disabled by aids before they can access the program and most </p><br /><p>recently we were pleased to see that there will be some guidance release office of diversity the 1150 waivers that will be helpful in building a bridge in 2014 when medicaid will face this opportunity. rian white faced funding shortages in the aids program, </p><br /><p>these medications prosighted medicaid--lykes dazon, said earlier, there are states in the south that are incredibly accountivated and those are communicatess of color that are impacted. currently 13 states have instituted wait lists for </p><br /><p>programs while 17 other vs introduced a variety of cost containment measures like capped enrollment and reduce the form illegalsarys. there is great hope, and i think that was referenced in the viedman yee you all saw earlier in some of the fact that we've </p><br /><p>been participating early on and itsomes about through the importance of healthcare reform through the strategy, the passage of healthcare reform and the release of the strategy will go far in addressing these challenges, healthcare reform will improve insurance companies </p><br /><p>from dropping enrollees when they're diagnosed with hiv. you will also keep private insurance companies denying coverage on hiv diagnosis or capping spending on treatment. so healthcare reform will also expand medicaid eligibility eliminating the requirement that </p><br /><p>a person be disabled by aids prior to being eligible for the program. the national aids stat knowledgey aims to increase access to care and minimize health disparities. one of the ways it aims to achieve these goal system by </p><br /><p>focusing resources on those communities where the impact of the epidemic is most severe, namely minority communities. in other words, it calls for funding to follow the epidemic. this will go far in addressing the prevention challenges proposed by the disproportionate </p><br /><p>epidemic on the color while at the same time we must be careful that we do not abandon one's community health for another. for example, while the asian and specific islander community has the lowest infection rate of any racial and ethnic group in america it is also the only </p><br /><p>group with infections that are actually on the rise. if we based our reallocation of funds solely on the viruses burden in the community, we can risk the epideprivationic and others. this is why the need to continue fund suggest so important. </p><br /><p>while programs like p. r. e. p. and the use of treatment of prevention holds significant promise we must insure continued funding of traditional prevention programs. any additional weapons in our preventionarsinal are only effective in concert with safer </p><br /><p>sex practices and regular condom use. in today's political climate, efforts to reduce the deficit have occasionally put fund nothing jeopardy to the credit of this administration, it has continued to push for sustained prevention funding but efforts </p><br /><p>in congress to cut family planning funding including funding for planned parent hood could have a devastating effect on our nation's fight against this epidemic. instead of cutting these programs, it is critical to note that each infection that is </p><br /><p>prevented saves over 350,000 in lifetime medical costs much of which fallsot taxpayer. in fact, preventing all 56,000 annual infections for just one year could save as much as 20 billion in lifetime medical costs. if you multiby that figure out </p><br /><p>over the period of a decade and you are looking at potentially savings in the hundreds of billions of dollars. prevention is an investment and it is something we must really work towards. it is not just an investment in the citizen of this country, it </p><br /><p>is investment in our economic security. and finally, i think the most important thing they could say is someone who's been living with hiv in the advanced in treatment over the past 24 years and that i'm able to be standing here and doing this work and </p><br /><p>advocating for the needs of people living with hiv and aids. but there is also benefit they know of that is really important to me that i've been able to be able to paritate in and that is being able to be around to see my parents get hold and take care of them in their twilight </p><br /><p>years as they've been taking care of me when i was dealing with this when i turned 23 ask they were there as my support. and for that, and the science, and for all the work that's been going on, that's been the greatest gift for people living with hiv and aids that we can be </p><br /><p>there for others to do the work including our own families to take care of them in their own twilight years. thank you very much [ applause ] - >> thank you daniel, thank you so much. you know it's easy for us to </p><br /><p>focus in on the domestic epidemic, it is so devastating and continues as we talked about, but one of the most important things i think we've done in this country is look outward at the pandemic and as the video talked about a little bit, the pep far program program </p><br /><p>launched is one of the most amazing health initiatives is a global health init whyative in our time--initiative of our time. mark was able to help get that program going and we owe him a debt of tkpwratitute and he is now the distinguished scholar at </p><br /><p>georgetown university, inaugural global health fellow at the george w. bush institute and he's joining us today to talk about the global pandemic. >> good morn everyone, i would like to begin by thanks secretary sebelius and dr. koh for hosting us today and keeping </p><br /><p>the spot light on aids as many things are going around and many other important issues on everyone's plate. it's good to be back here at hhs, i served for 14 years so it's good to be home. leadership starts with humility and service and no one is </p><br /><p>that--where is that more important than the global hiv/aids epidemand i can how people are responding globally. the opportunity to serve is often a series of accidents and in my own life, the first accident was in the mid80s reading the cover story on news </p><br /><p>week, in news week about global hiv/aids and like tony there was something just inside of me that told me i should leave, the academic career i was pursuing in the humanitys and pursue the second accident was tony, tony was--i was fortunate that he picked me up and shepherd me </p><br /><p>and mentored me in his lab ratorscheas president bush turned to him and a small team to develop pepfar, tony was kind enough to include me in that process and then president bush launched the single largest fight against hiv/aids. and with randy tobias, the first </p><br /><p>aids coordinator was fortunate enough in other accident to be there as he moved on and to be named coordinator. now president's bush's leadership was sorely needed and it's difficult to remember looking back, given how far we've come that just two years </p><br /><p>before pepfarwas launched we h. i.t almost global leadership and we had global efforts that was blocked at the united nations as a millennium development goal and it was blocked as a millennium development goal as pernicious arguments and it was that african americans were </p><br /><p>uneducated and poor and could not do something as strong as treatment despite having the treatment there. that slander was compound the by something that was being promulgate thad africans were so permiss cuous that there was nothing that could be done to </p><br /><p>turn the epidemic around. we now from sentence science that africans now have fewer sexual partners than americans do over the course of a lifetime and in the context of that general, we can't do this, or the africans can't do this, president bush and the american </p><br /><p>people stepped up and said, yes, they can. we actually believe in that saying in the last administration too. , i knew the truth and tony new the truth that was a shorthander and untrue because we were doing work in atricka with colleagues </p><br /><p>there who were delivers antiretroviral therapy already and we knew that what they needed was support and that comes back to leadership being about humility and service and understanding that africans actually can not only solve their problems but among those </p><br /><p>talented dedicate and innovative people and if you support them and give them a chance, they will solve their problems and that's precisely what they did with pepfar. pepwas about americans not dog but supporting africans from the village level to state houses to </p><br /><p>solve their hiv problem and that's why 10s of millions of people had their lives lifted up and saved. president obama is continuing this theme and it carrying the torch. the his acra speech was on point and fully part of bush's view </p><br /><p>point and so continuity to say that africans must lead and will lead and americans will support and president obama's global health initiative in a health view is a natural evolution of what was the administration and not a break. and so much though that the bush </p><br /><p>institute is focused on similar efforts and working with the administration and his extraordinary team of people in development and global health, eric being one of them, many you in this room being among them as well from across the government at the white house, the state </p><br /><p>department, usiad here at hhs, the peace corps and department of defense. now perk ep far came at a unique memory cloneinent history where the science gave us the opportunity to support people for prevention, treatment, and care in combination which is </p><br /><p>what pepfar was all about. people focus on the treatment but that wasn't the only issue there and the science was there, and as president bush said at the time that if we h. i.t the science, it was a moral imperfive t-r us not to let people die. </p><br /><p>we are now at a similar cross roads on prevention. while we could do some combination prevention when i was in office we had behavior change including condoms where we could have a cop binnation approach as we're ending our term in office male circumcision </p><br /><p>cameot stage reducing infection by 50 or 60%. we now have treatment prevention. we hope for prophylaxis we have it for men who have sex with women, and we hope it will help others including young women in africa. </p><br /><p>we have a microbicide coming on stage. we now have the science that will allow us to drive this epidemic into the ground. and just as we have the science with treatment, and we could have done as many people said, here are all the reasons for </p><br /><p>implementation and financially we can't do it we thursday suspect why we can do it, we now have the opportunity not only to say here are the problems and challenges with combination prevention and using science, here are the problems financially, here are the </p><br /><p>problems on implementation, we have the opportunity to grasp this moment in history again and say this is why we can do it and this is how we will do it. and we will do it is by supporting africans who if we support them, will solve this problem. </p><br /><p>they will figure out how to do what we need to do is support them. and so, pep far grasp the history, we are now hopeful we will drive this emdeprivationic into the ground through prevention, care and treatment and for an hiv-free generation. </p><br /><p>and all of us who have been on this stage and privileged to service and privileged to have the opportunity and humility to serve look forward to supporting all of you and future generations of leaders as you tackle this problem as you own this problem supporting africans </p><br /><p>to solve their problems. >> thank you mark, i had the pleasure to work with haline gail and in the mid90s and i got to work with her for the cdc, and i got to see leadership at work and i got to see advancement of a frontal assault on infections in this </p><br /><p>country. she is now the president and ceo of care usa. and she also serves as the chair of the president's advisory counsel on hiv/aids. dr. gayle? >> thank you so much, richard. and as always when you're the </p><br /><p>last speaker many people have already made some of your points soime going to try to be relatively brief so we can start the panel but before i start i would like to thank secretary sebelius and assistant secretary koh, for having us here and for the leadership that they </p><br /><p>continue to show not only for hiv, but health around the country and i have the opportunity to work with both of them in my role with the president's aids advisory council and it really just so appreciate the the support we get from them, dr. veldasarie, </p><br /><p>and christopher weight who is is there and i want to thank jeff crowley who is my partner in crime in all of this who heads the white house aids office so there's a lot of people i could call out but just to say, how thankful and how privileged i am to be back here again as many of </p><br /><p>the people on this stage have already said, i spent 20 years as a commissioned officer at centers for disease control and on a few other assignments and so this building is home for me and it's great to be coming home like this. i also will say this is--i have </p><br /><p>to mark this day, this is the first time ever ever heard tony fauci, be called an accident. but i'll remember that. a good accident! so richard just asked me to say a little bit about my path and more from a personal perspective so i'll do that and you know </p><br /><p>when hiv was first discovered before it was hiv, when the first cases of aids were reported, i was doing my pediatric residency not very far from here at the children's hospital and clearly pediatric aids and hiv was not on the radar screen so you know i </p><br /><p>finished my pedeiat rake training without ever really having heard much about hiv or training or having much experience with aids other than to read about it as a medical professional. i then went on to the the centers for disease control </p><br /><p>because i wanted to have some experience in public health and thought i was going to stay there for two years but ended up staying for 20. so when i first went and you had this opportunity to choose your different assignments, i thought about hiv because i thought this </p><br /><p>was an interesting fascinating, new issue and everybody, almost everybody told me to stay away from it because they said this is a strange political disease and by the way, you know it's not going to be very serious and you 99 a couple of years we'll have figured out a cure and </p><br /><p>treatment and you know, why don't you go spend your time on something that's a real public health challenge. obviously i didn't take that advice and and soon--although the first couple of years i did something else but i asoon got drawn to work on hiv and aids, </p><br /><p>and by that time, i think we were all beginning to realize that this was going to be the defining, not only public health issue of our time but in many ways the defining humans and humanitarian issue of our time as i think several of the speakers have mentioned. </p><br /><p>and for me, hiv, i often say, i did too hiv, hiv chose me because it was fascinating scientifically but it also had social imperiaatives that i thought were very--that called to me and i've always been a person who was very involved as an activist, really wanting to </p><br /><p>work on social change issues and so, hiv which does not on one hand does not discriminate on the other shorthand not randomly distributed and we know that in many ways, hiv does show us the fault lines in our societies whether it's in this country and the disproportionate impact it </p><br /><p>has on people of of color, people who inject drugs, gay men or whether it's around the world where it has its biggest impact on those live nothing extreme poverty and particularly--living in extreme poverty scheon women who often have no ability to negotiate safer sex in the </p><br /><p>context of their lives and relationships. so for me hiv was a calling in many ways as many people here have said and you know i'll just end by saying for me as others have said, i have marked my life by many of the chapters in this epidemic whether it was--when we </p><br /><p>first started talking about the disproportionate impact on communities of color, heterosexual spread, perinatal transmission, the global epidemic, i also mark hide life by the the aids conferences and you know, every year, there's a different flavor in the </p><br /><p>environment in the conference and often times that has to do with whether the discoveries are limited or whether they're very hopeful like the vancouver conference in 1996 where anti--where combination therapy was first rolled out. so you know i think we've all </p><br /><p>come to mark our lives and luckily, we're marking our lives less by the number of people who are dying in our live who is we love and more by the advances that people have already talked about and i think that's what's hopeful about this epidemic and i think the other part about it </p><br /><p>that i always find hopeful is that there are people like the people on this stage and people in the audience and others who are part of a caring community and i think all of us can say that as a result of works on hiv, our lives are richer than they would have been before </p><br /><p>where more human in many ways than we ever were before and more equaled and think about society in a more equal way than we might have before and so, you know while this has been a horrendous epidemand i can has affected people in and around the globe and horrendous ways, i </p><br /><p>think it's also helped to form a more human approach to life, to health and to medicine in ways that i think we will never turn back from. so those are just my few comments and i look forward to the panel. >> thank you dr. gayle, and </p><br /><p>before we start the discussion and we also have a mic up front and i will ask people to come forward and ask their own questions, i just want to thank all the people and i can't name them because i won't remember all the names who worked so hard to put this together. </p><br /><p>it's been a couple of months of very hard work and most of them are in the back, not taking up seats because that's the way they are. they're terrific colleagues and meas join me in thanks them for the work they've done. and this is my oprah moment. </p><br /><p>so i'm going to ask the first question to get it started but if you have a question or comment, please feel free to do so. i will ask two questions of the first is what makes you the most optimistic about the epidemic as it stands today? </p><br /><p>what gives you the most hope? >> well are there are several things richard. one of them is that over the last couple of years it's clear we have already within our grasp, the scientifically proven capabilities of really, as i say getting our arms around this </p><br /><p>pandemic in turning around the dynamics of the epidemic so instead of seeing this, we're really going to be started see thanksgiving and it has to do with what i mention, with mark and others mentioned is the issue of combination prevention, modalities there has been in the </p><br /><p>past understandable but not appropriate tension between treatment and prevention and we know now that treatment is prevention and in addition to the things we know work, circumcision works even better than we thought it did in the beginning. </p><br /><p>we clearly know that under certain circumstances preexposure prove laxic works. we know that interventions such as topical microbicides even with modest adherence, work with greater adherence work even better, if you put all those things together, right now, we </p><br /><p>need to imlevel things in a way that we get the best bang for the buck. so i'm--i'm enthusiast and i can optimistic that before there were so many scientific gaps, that even if we were able to implement them, we wouldn't have the tools to do that. </p><br /><p>our tool kit is getting more full and more full. and it's really up to us to implement that now. both domestically and internationalally so i feel good about that. >> any other panelists want to add on that? </p><br /><p>>> i would agree with that, i guess i would flip it around a little bit and you know what am i most pessimistic about because i agree that we have now more than ever an opportunity to--with all the tools we have both for prevention as well as for treatment, you know but i </p><br /><p>think we also had the potential for taking our eye off the ball and not continuing to keep the resources that are necessary to really go that next and hopefully sooner or later last mile. so i think it is easy to get too optimistic and to take the heat </p><br /><p>off and i think that's--you know there are lots of other issues. you know we have a huge economic crisis on our hands still. you know there's a lot going on, but i think we just cannot for the 30 years that we have poured into this and into people's live who is have been lost, we cannot </p><br /><p>blow this taoupt to put these taouls to use and make sure that they get used by those who need the most and that's going to--you know that's going to take a lot of political will. >> i'd add two things that make me optimistic, first is the number of people people and this </p><br /><p>is true with the united states and the people on the ground and the communities in the health clinics and hospitals that are there to do the work and the creatativity and innovation and if we just support them they will actually figure it out. they have for the last five </p><br /><p>years in africa accident seven years and in the united states in the last 30 years. if we support them they will figure it out. the thing that makes me incredibly optimistic i share, and, hiv/aids--we have common ground, and so we have a real </p><br /><p>opportunity for using that for partnership and some of that grows from,--there are very few programs and so that's a life saved in united states or in as we move into health in general that, is true, not just in hiv/aids and certainly globally with the global health </p><br /><p>initiative and integration which we did some of the the bush administration and this administration and the natural evolution is carrying on, we can make the arguments in a way and there is a sense in the united states that we are even in our most difficult financial times </p><br /><p>we are part of a global community and we care about our brothers and sisters in the world that we're not a self-centered nation for the most part and we're not self-centered individuals and that was demonstrated clearly in the days of hiv/aids here and </p><br /><p>i'm optimistic that we can if we're careful and do it well and right, achieve what we need to achieve and grasp this moment in >> [speaking at once ] >> so, richard, i have first to say that i absolutely share the same hopes and concerns and i have two more. </p><br /><p>and one is particularly every single day that another person who has been diagnosed or living with hiv is able to lift their head in dignity, come out, disclose, share what their concerns are, share what their experiences are and bring others along with them means we're </p><br /><p>going to continue to link arm in arm with people who are experiencing the brunt of this epidemic with folk who is are looking for all of the solutions to the end of it. they give me hope ever every single day. the second thing is within my </p><br /><p>organization of sister love, we have ever not located hiv in the larger framework of human rights and we know for people who are most impacted or most vulinarrable, they're experiencing some of the worst human right suppression whether it's violence or proveerty or </p><br /><p>disenfranchisement or no access to housing or support themselves in their families and that because we know have moved a little bit further down the road with the the affordable care act, with understanding, that maybe we could agree that health is a human right. </p><br /><p>that hiv will be integrated into much larger framework and a much larger effort to make sure that and, and that hiv isn't this exceptional issue that's only reserved for a certain number of people, i think that that's really where the hope lie system when we realize that, respect it </p><br /><p>and put the resources to responding to that that we will see the end a lot sooner. >> i think to really underscore, it's people that are going to make the difference in the investigation. i think more importantly it's the younger generation that </p><br /><p>there are so many trailblazers back in my day, but there are many people in this audience and many people who i work with now who are not around when the epidemic started and yet who have taken up the mantel who are not living with hiv but who are still fighting for those people </p><br /><p>that i've been fighting for for all my life and i think that's the biggest hope for me because i think that no matter what, you know if we have to continue fighting this, you know for as long as we have to fight this, we've got a new generation that is really taking up that mantel </p><br /><p>and that is what i think gives me the most hope. >> i just want to remind folks if they would like to ask a question? just to come to the microphone fyou want to address the panel let us know. otherwise we'll all take it. </p><br /><p>>> i'm prudence goforth. so some nearly 20 years ago, i didn't know i would be working at hhs and i am now. and i have two special heroes here today dr. fauci, my son justin go forth. let me connect the dots and you will see that we are a part of </p><br /><p>this story that you're telling today and there was a time some 20 years ago when i thought my son would be a piece of that quilt. it is because dr. fauci, was his first doctor and he was a part of the experimental treatment at nih that he is living today that </p><br /><p>he is in this audience, justin, you want to stand up? dr. fauci has gone on to saving many as you have, he is in the medical field at whit man-locker treating individuals with during those days of his treatment at nih hospital, i was mother to many young men whom </p><br /><p>their partners rejected them, whom their parents did not know -frpl.and i thank all of you very, very issues much for the trepl end out work you've done and especially for my wonderful son. good morning everyone, i'm deputy editor of p. a. w. s. magazine, i am a person living </p><br /><p>with aids not hiv, thankfully. so as a person living with hiv, i have always been hopeful for the cure. i have been waiting 30 years, i hear a lot of good news but i would like to hear how hopeful each of you are about the cure? >> very! </p><br /><p>>> how much of a chance to we have for a cure in the near term? >> when you talk about a cure there are a couplele of ways of looking at a cure. there's a true eradication of all the virus in the body so that when you discontinue </p><br /><p>therapy, there's nothing there to rebound. that would be a true microbiogical eradication cure. right now we are in the stage of scientific discovery to even determine if that's feasible and we are encouraging by request for application and innovative </p><br /><p>ways to do that because the drugs that we have are spectacular in suppressing the replication of the virus but they don't get rid of the virus that hides in the reservoirs. the other approach is what we call a functional cure, in other words to suppress the virus or </p><br /><p>get that reservoir small enough that by a number of means, boosting the response or another mechanism yet to be determine thad you could stop therapy and the virus won't rebound back. so that will be what we call a functional cure. to be honest with you, i don't </p><br /><p>know how long that's going to take because we're still in the in the face of what we call discovery of mechanisms of how we can do that as oppose to imp lemming that. we know we can stop the implication of the rihave you seen, we haveiate drugs, now, </p><br /><p>but it is still a scientific challenge about whether we can really cure so that's really the answer, we're going to try really hard to do that so hang in there and maybe you'll get the medication too do that out of your reservoir. >> one of the greatest </p><br /><p>opportunities we have in front of us are some of the structural interventions that are out there, including the affordable care act and national fight stat edge so if i can allow myself to redefine the definition of cure. one of the goals of the strategy is to look at how we increase </p><br /><p>care, and actions for care. and we know there are treatments and preventions. and there are opportunities to work at eliminating virus as much as possible so that we can get to a different type of cure in the sense that we could really have communities really </p><br /><p>not worried about hiv as they happen in the past. so i think there's also ways that i think we need to be looking at this from the standpoint of not just the science but what are the policy opportunity that are in front of us that could allowitous get to </p><br /><p>that point. --allow us to get to that point. >> thank you. >> good morning and thank each of you for all that you've done individually and collectively. for debwest with the racial and ethnic disparities coalition and the african american alliance. </p><br /><p>know tag one size does not fit all, what in each of your, however best you can answer it, professional judgment really needs to be done to better address the the academ in blacks and in hispanics among the hardest to reach and more at risk than i think hardest to </p><br /><p>reach? >> i'm going to start from a community perspective, when i--in my earlier comments, i sort of facetiously alluded of how i dream of more than magic and it's not fetal compartment saoerbgs at all,--facetious at all, our community, the </p><br /><p>leadership, not just the hiv/aids leadership but many of us look to and work with but our communities leadership, our civil rights leader, our political leader, our education leaders, when those folks are celebrities, you know the people that our youth will listen to </p><br /><p>and then go and get the information advice and treatment from our approximately and our social service provider that when our whole community embraces this epidemic and response to a very much in the same way they'll respond to when a tv show gets taken off that </p><br /><p>they're really interested in or when a pastor has to settle a lawsuits because of some sophisticated lakers stuff he's been involved in and they get up in arms about that, when we begin to get on television and demand what is right for us with us by us then that's when we're </p><br /><p>going to see a trickling down and a trickling off of the exchange of hiv, the transmission, the incidents and also the lack of services that are available to us in our we'll be able to address that but without the proper lead shepand the community that the </p><br /><p>embrace that leadership ideas ideas and implementation of of the programs and policies that we need for ourselves, then we'll stay way behind in this epidemic once we actually embrace and ecinize that this is an emergency, it is an urgency and that we don't look to black folk </p><br /><p>in africa to be the only one who is are coming together and solving african problems with african solutions, it's going to be black and brown people using black and brown solutions to solve our problems in this and until then, we're going to still be looking for someone </p><br /><p>else to come and save us and it's never going to work. >> i maybe i'll add a couple more points. i mean, i do think that as greater access to treatment and we know the impact that treatment has on prevention, you know i think all the things </p><br /><p>we've already talked about *fs greater access to the tools that are available and to the extent that the community gets access and demands access as dazon said, you know that will be helpful. but i also think that not only is it important that there </p><br /><p>is--there is leadership coming out and claiming this as an issue, but also the willingness to talk about the issues that are related to hiv. you know you cannot talk about hiv in the african american community without talking about homosex y'allity and we don't </p><br /><p>want to talk about homosex y'allity. we don't want to prethat he understand it exists, i mean young african american and gay hispanic men are the ones who are disproportionately at risk. we have to talk about what's happening to women and why women </p><br /><p>aren't in the situation where they feel they can negotiate safer sex and that means talking to young girls about sex. we've got to be willing to talk about the the issues that are related to it and talk about them openly and honestly and we're not willing to. </p><br /><p>and until we are, you know, i remember back in the day when we would say, you know talk about the "risk groups" for hiv and aids and we would say gay or black as if there weren't gay black people. you know? and so, we have to be open and </p><br /><p>honest in the dialogue and until we do that, until we're willing to talk openly and honestly about sex and sex y'allity in the african americans and community then it's--because we had the leaders getting up there and talking but, you know they haven't been willing to say the </p><br /><p>words. there's also a scientific and medical response to that question also or is it only just social? >> well i think there's a substance and medical in the sense that these are the same communities that are </p><br /><p>disproportionately impact bide other diseases that have poor health services that have poor access to health information so it's no surprise on kind of on the medical and the health side that those same disparities would be the case for hiv but beyond that, there are these </p><br /><p>other issues as well. >> we have time for one last question. >> justin, i think i got introduced earlier. my question's about stigma and how it relates to especially the new modality for prevention and we live in--and we are really </p><br /><p>excited about becoming a demonstrate site for preexposure prophylaxis and i'm excited about now there are world class leaders talking about treatment and prevention, but treatment and prevention and press and pep, all come with their own unique teug ma that--stignathat </p><br /><p>comes from preicidersa well as patients community and so on. risk compensation issues where providers will say we shouldn't go down that road because then it'll just be a free for all, everybody's not going to stop using condoms and so on when there's solid research that </p><br /><p>shows that the more you engage people in care, the less risk they actually take along with getting on treatment as prevention and i appreciate your at the same time about homosex y'allity because we use the word stigma so much and have for 30 year thaeus think we sometimes </p><br /><p>forget what that means and the majority of that is homophobia and so, how do we deal with the unique--the new enique stigma around treatment and prevention and how do we find leadership to address homophobia so that we can start breaking down some of those barriers. </p><br /><p>my job at whit man walker is to figure out how to break down those barriers and there's a list of barriers this long, kimap almost every single one of them back to stigma, so i just wanted to see what your thoughts were about treatment and prevention in the stigma related </p><br /><p>to that. >> i think one of the biggest opportunities that people have and they can do in terms of stigma it's one thing that one of my former bosses, president clinton said, was that if you're gay to come out. impact of of that is tremendous </p><br /><p>in being able to let someone know you are gay it's not easy to do, but it will have a tremendous impact on who someone, they might know what being gay is. i think it's it is same thing with living with hiv and aids, was that is takes a lot of </p><br /><p>courage but it's important that you come out about your status. because you have to work to educate others about the fact that it is still there. and so those are important things they think can help in that site but it takes a lot of courage and it's a burden in </p><br /><p>some respects because it really impacts those who are probablily the ones that are being stigmatized the most. >> you know when i was in offsite, i used to be asked questions that annoyed me, but one ofa annoyed me the most is why is there so much stigma in </p><br /><p>africa, as if we don't have any here? and you know we all up here remember and i was looking around a good chunk of the audience and some don't remember that in the early days of hiv/aids the incredible stigma that was associate wide hiv/aids </p><br /><p>where you had--when i was a medical student down the road at the va, people would not touch hiv positive patients, literally would not touch them we had to sue surgeons and dentists to operate on hiv positive people. as your mother pointed out parents disowned people, </p><br /><p>partners disowned people. misinformation about how you got it so bad that the white house security people were wearing plastic goffs when hiv people went through it but we got through it all and you're living proof and congratulations what you're doing to what you do </p><br /><p>serving your life story. we got through a lost it but not all of it and just as in africa they are a bit behind, because they started later are working through these issues, but they're complicated and difficult. to me the situation comes back </p><br /><p>to what we talked about, go back to the people in the community and ask them, talk with them about how they would get over the cigna of preexposure of prophylaxis, talk with them about how they will get over the sigma of treatment and what are they hearing and it's </p><br /><p>remarkable and over and over again where we make these big procclammations globally and then we go over and have hearing and they hear differently and spending a bunch of money stuff we just learned about. again, going to the community, they will will figure out their </p><br /><p>problems and they will solve their own problems of the it's not an easy journey. but look where we are from 25 years ago, if we look and continue on that pathway and as helene, and stay o gba it and listening to these people, we can solve these problems. </p><br /><p>>> can i also ask that the question of sigma for me when we're talking about homophobia, is not actually only centered with homophobia, for homophobic hear home hoe sex y'allity sake, if we draw back the lens, the real stigma is on human sex sexuality, to be sexual is--we </p><br /><p>saw a lot of that this week. you know it's so funny and sad at the same time and i talk to face leaderthis all the time. you talk about--faith leaders all the time. you talk about god and the gifts of faith and the gifts that god gives us and all these tools, </p><br /><p>well, why else would he give us sex as a means to get here if it wasn't a gift? in order to get life from anything, from the the plant, to the human, that something has to engage and to be able to normalize that conversation in such a way that there's no </p><br /><p>stigma around sex and sexuality that we all know we have to engage in it, if we're going to procreate or if we're just going to enjoy ourselves, if we're going to destress, if we're going to stay around till tomorrow, we're going to have to get some at some point. </p><br /><p>am i wrong? i mean, you know celibacy is a choice, it's not natural. so, i want us to be real clear about that because in all seriousness, young women who are sexually active are stigmatized. teenagers who are sexually active are not only stigmatized </p><br /><p>but discriminated against in the aids zone. gay black men who are sexual active or stigmatized. and men who are stigmaifiesed with having sex with more tan one person are stigmatized old people having sex at 85 and 90 are stigmatized. </p><br /><p>so it doesn't matter, it means a right and the recognition of thing same sex relationship and they're not given the right and the equal access and the equal respect that oppositions or heterosexual relationships are given but sex itself is the stigma and until i can talk </p><br /><p>about my sexual fluids and my sexual position and my sexual preferences and my orientations, the same way i talk about what color lip stick i'm going to wear today or which high heels i need to put on today or what kind of ear wax i have coming out of my ears, until we can </p><br /><p>make it all the same part of the same conversation then autogoing to continue and continue and continue. >> i think i have to make that the last remark. </p><br /><img align="center" src="" alt="sex education programs" /><br /><p>thanks to our panelist, thanks to our audience and thanks to your commitment. </p><br /><p>have a really great day. </p></div><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dw4cPqzNuwI?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Diana.Lhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957689766549596146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892821641100309695.post-3737310442548318212017-04-28T17:26:00.000-07:002017-04-28T17:26:13.539-07:00sex education in schools<img src="" height="500" width="500"><br /><br /><div align="justify"><p>that was a real ego boost. i feel like iwas really oversold here. it's a real honor to be here. phyllis isdefinitely one of my personal heroes on this campus. i have great personal andprofessional respect for the really important work that you do here, so i'mvery honored to be invited. thank you so much. i'm going to try and go ratherquickly so that we can get through </p><br /><p>sex education in schools, everything today because i have lots ofthings that i want to share with you and not lot of time. we've already goneover some of these things, so i'm going to skip them. just very quickly, oasis is responsible for things like take backthe night, red flag campaign, love your </p><br /><p>body day, fem sex workshop, sober sex andvarious presentations on campus, such as this and some fun workshops like ask thesexpert. if you're interested in any of those please contact me. what i'mgoing to do is actually send around an email list sheet, no pressure at all, butif you're interested in receiving emails from us, when we have eventscoming up, if you want, either just participate or volunteer, we're happy toadd you to that and send those to you. i promise we do not barrage you with emails, justa couple a semester, just so you know what's going on. just know that as astudent, you have access to 12 counseling sessions a year at the etsu counseling center,right down the hall. the red flag </p><br /><p>campaign is this week and we're wrappingthat up tomorrow. we're going to be out at the pedestrian mall or probably thecave patio because it's going to be raining, but the flags will still be outand we really would appreciate you stopping by and learning how to be anactive bystander, when you see red flags for relationship and sexual violence. interms of learning information more, in regards to the, official etsu and tbrsexual misconduct policies or resources or how to report a violation through thejudicial system, here on campus, you're going to want to go to the etsuviolence free web page and there's all sorts of information on there that youcan access. the education that i provide is </p><br /><p>for educational purposes, but if you needinformation on how to get there or you need some advocacy and support i am happyto direct you to the right people and help you through that. let's talk about what sexual violenceis. this includes any sexual act without consent, it is violence not sexuality, notlove, not passion. it's a human rights violation and includes rape, sexualassault, sexual harassment, stalking, fondling and grabbing somebody sexually.important statistics, ninety percent of sexually assaulted college women knowtheir attacker and it's either a classmate, friend, ex-partner oracquaintance. i think this is important </p><br /><p>to recognize because culturally, i thinkwe have more of an assumption that people who sexually assault others,are strangers coming out of a bush, yielding a weapon in the dark and thenretreating into the darkness. still a stranger and that very clearly is acrime, based on things like law and order svu, but if nine out of 10 times, in acollege experience, the sexual abuse perpetrated by someoneknown to the victim, that becomes very confusing. that definition gets skewed andsometimes when a person experiences this, they know that something very wronghappened, but they don't even have a word for it. it's really important torecognize that most sexual assault on </p><br /><p>college campuses are done by a friend.i should of said this at the beginning, just a trigger warning, some of thethings that we're talking about today can be triggering, upsetting toindividuals, whether something has happened to you or you know someonewho's experienced something, so please do take advantage of our counselingservices, if you need them and we also have a twenty-four seven phone line,called bucs press two, where you just call our counseling center number and can talk tosomeone on the phone any time of day. feel free to leave at any time, if itbecomes uncomfortable or you just have to go. i will not be offended.1 in 4 university women will be a victim </p><br /><p>of attempted or completed rate and thecurrent statistics for men is 1 in 16 during college and over the lifespan, it's onein three women and one in six men. most frequent locations of completed, oncampus rapes, are the victims residents, as most often, another residents, or in afraternity. what is sexual assault specifically?it's intentional, committed by physical force, violence, intimidation or threat. ignoring the objections of anotherperson, causing another's intoxication or impairment or taking advantage ofanother's incapacitation, helplessness or other inability to consent. just to beclear here the causes of rape are rapists, that's it. </p><br /><p>if you're wondering, i justwanted to clear it up, it's just the whole pie is rapists. just to be clearabout this, i'm going to go over the other ones in a second, but i think it's importantto bring up the statistic, 98% of sexual relational and gender violence, perpetratedin our culture, is perpetrated by those who identify as male. this in no wayshape or form, means that ninety-eight percent of men perpetrate this kind ofviolence. it's actually a very, very small percentage, only 3% of the population areidentify themselves as a serial rapist, through the way that questions are askedin studies, but of that percentage, a very high rate of them identify as male.those people, the people who </p><br /><p>perpetrate things like this andoftentimes it is serially done. there are also a small percentageof people, who through studies and interviews have identified themselves ascompleting one rape, regretting it and not doing it again, but again so total,there's a pretty low percentage of people who actually perpetrate thesecrimes. let's talk about these factors that play into rape. slutty clothes, so noone is ever responsible for being raped for what they wear. alcohol, no one is everresponsible for being raped by how much they drink. alcohol is the number onedate rape drug, so it is often used by rapists to facilitate a rape. it isa tool that a rapist might use, nut the alchohol is not responsible, it is </p><br /><p>still the person who is assaultinganother person. in terms of minorities, sixty percent of sexual assaults areperpetrated by caucasians. the majority are caucasian. in terms of weather, the only thingthat i could think of was, baby it's cold outside song, which is absolutely anexample of sexual assault. in case you're wondering i actually have a pictureon my door, that has two cute little penguins with scarves and it saysbaby it's cold outside, but i respect your choice to leave anyway. just toaddress that christmas song, that's super creepy. if you listen to the words, shelike what's in this drink, so there's </p><br /><p>potentially more alcohol or drug in thedrink, she's coming with all these reasons she wants to leave and it'shurting the person's pride, those are examples of absolutely facilitating asexual assault. in terms of television, i do think that media, advertisements, tvmovies, music videos, all these things in our culture, that we pay attention too, often, absolutely have an influence, over makingrape culture and gender violence culture acceptable, so i do think that mediaplays a huge role in perpetuating issues that are related to sexual assault,but still the person who is committing the crime is the one who is responsible.let's talk about how you can engage </p><br /><p>in a healthy, safe sexual encounter. to me,what i usually tell students, is there are two things that i regard in terms ofthinking about what health, safe, sexual encounter looks like and that is one,protection and when we have time we talk about different methods ofprotection and what to know about that because it's important to beeducated about sex and sexual activity and relationships, instead of feedinginto this cultural idea that's very taboo and guilt and shame involved.these are the things that have to be established in order to know thatconsent is happening. both partners are fully conscious and aware. what does thatmean? anybody? what needs to be </p><br /><p>happening to know that a person is fullyconscious and aware? or what can't be happening? can't be drunk. yeah. you can learn frommy colleague mina mcveigh who is the alcohol and other drugs coordinator, you canlearn how to count your drinks, you can maintain what she calls the perfect buzzand still be sober, you cannot be drunk. what else? can't be drugged.absolutely or on any drugs because the problem with alcohol, you can measureit to know when you're above or below the legal bac, but with other drugsthere's not a safe way to measure that. what else? anything else? </p><br /><p>you can't be asleep. a lot of times studentslaugh at tha, but the reality is we have to have that as part of this conversation.that absolutely happens. both partners are equally free to act, choose and changetheir minds. what does that mean? you can say no at any time. absolutely. what else? you can't be coerced. absolutely and interms of saying no at any time, that means during the encounter, you could bein the middle of doing something and say you know this isn't for me anymore andi'd like to stop or you can maybe agree to something at one point and then laterchange your mind, before it happens, you </p><br /><p>absolutely have the right to do that.anything else you can think of? you get to choose the kind of sexual acts, that you're interested in being involved with. ok? in our culture we tend to havethis sort of, really binary idea of what sex is, either you absolutely do nothingand this is also what we call the virgin/whore phenomenon. we think about the way thatwomen are related to sexuality. either you do nothing and you're a virgin or frigid oryou do anything, anything at all that involves, what we imagine sex to be,in our culture, which technically, we think of as specifically, vaginalintercourse. we sort of miss and then then your identified as aslut or a whore or some horrible name like </p><br /><p>that and then we forget all of theseother things in the middle, these wonderful things you can do, that arepleasurable and fun and ok. that's sort of how we think about it. they're allsorts of things that you might want to consent to and other things that youmight not want to consent to and that needs to be made clear. both partnersclearly communicate their willingness and permission. what does that mean? whathas to happen? yeah, yeah, how do you make yes happen or an affirmation happen? you talk, you useyour words. absolutely, absolutely, but is that usually what we do in our culture?no, what do we do? what do we usually do to </p><br /><p>confirm or deny consent to something?body language. absolutely, absolutely, so were a culture thatdoesn't really talk about these things we just do them and we tend to look fora non-verbal cues to know whether or not a person's okay with doing it and so myargument is if you're not ready to talk about it, if you if you can't saywords like penis or vagina or you know there's a video that we won'thave time for, but john oliver did this great video recently, called sex ed and istrongly encourage you to watch it, it's 20 minutes, it's so funny. they make thisspecial video that says if you still call it a who-ha, you're not ready to havesex. just an example of how we do these </p><br /><p>things, but we are afraid to even usewords to talk about them and that is absolutely, very important. ifsomeone shakes their booty and winks and you assume that means they want to havesex, which in our culture is technically vaginal intercourse and they're thinkingsomething completely different, like maybe i'm just interested in how youlook and might be interested in getting to know you a little bit better,than we've had a massive miscommunication. that absolutely canlead to sexual assault being perpetrated. both partners are positive and sincerein their desires. im just going to tell you. this is like if someone says they loveyou or they want to be your partner, in </p><br /><p>order to get sexual activity from you,that is absolutely not getting consent. it's never assumed, implied, coerced orconvinced, so a lot of times people don't realize, that if they say no and someonemakes them feel guilty or continues to pressure them to say yes and then theydo say yes, they don't realize that actually counts as sexual assault. if a person says no and theneventually they say yes because they are pushed and bothered and prodded, they areabsolutely being assaulted. consent is not the absence of the word,no, so silence does not mean yes. there was no previous campaign, that wastitled no means no and now there's a lot </p><br /><p>more focus on yes means yes, againsupporting the idea that you need to be getting clear communication, that yes theperson wants to do something, not silence. consent is the responsibility of theinitiator, when i ask students this, a lot of times they say it's the guy, it's thegirl, it's the parents, that gets a little weird when they say that, but it's actuallythe initiator, so an example of that might be, that a person's pants don'tjust magicallycome off, someone does something to get them on the floor or one activitydoesn't just move into the other without someone initiating that move and so theperson who is initiating that sexual act, the person who is initiating something, is the one who isresponsible for making sure, verbally </p><br /><p>that the other person is ok with whatthey're doing. what i also like to say to people is, because i get a lot of questionsabout the legalistic details, like is someone going to accuse me of rape thenext day, you know if i didn't realize that they were drunk or lots of questionslike that. my response to that is, i think it's important to take alook at yourself in the mirror and think if when you were approaching a sexualencounter, the first thing that comes to mind is how can i do this without goingto jail, then we need to kind of rethink our behavior and we need to rethink howwe're engaging, sexually with another person. let's think more along the linesof who am i as a human and who is this </p><br /><p>other person as another human. if theperson is just lying there and they haven't specifically said no, and my excuse is, butthey didn't say no, well did you think, that maybe it wouldbe more fun or respectful to check in with the person and make sure they'reenjoying themselves. you're not just thinking about what youwant, out of a sexual experience, did that ever occur to you? how are you interacting withthat person? are you treated them with respect? are you thinking about theirneeds? are you making sure that they're enjoying themselves as much as you are?maybe starting to look at it through a lens of just being arespectable, good person to another </p><br /><p>person, instead of legally am i going toget in trouble, if i do this or i don't do this. here are some examples, it seems soobvious when we talk about these things outside of the purview of sexualactivity and when you think about consenting to behavior, or consenting to doingsomething, it seems really silly, when it's in terms of things like, say a movie,so this guy is saying want to watch pulp fiction, to his friend, sure. a half hour laternot really liking this let's do something else, no! you said you would watch themovie, so you're staying until it's done. again the idea of sort of acting,choosing, changing your mind. he's you </p><br /><p>making a choice here, it's beenabout a half hour, i'm good, nope got to stay. seems ridiculous with the movie, whyis that so ridiculous with sex? thanks for letting me borrow your car, noproblem. what are you doing? the next week, borrowing your car, you that i could. youcan't take my car whenever you want it. you said i could have it once, i shouldbe able to have all the time. okay so it's ridiculous, to assume thatsomeone can just have whatever they want from you, when it's an object and itcertainly should be even more ridiculous when it's your body. this is an example of taking advantageof someone, while they were sleeping. </p><br /><p>unconscious. this is the idea of someone invitingsomeone over, welcoming someone into their apartment or home and feeling likethey're obligated to be sexually active with them, becomes somehow inviting theminto that space and is inviting them into their personal, sexual space and iencounter this a lot with clients who have experienced sexual violence and iwould say a majority, if not every single client that i've had, who has experiencedsexual assault, holds, at least when they start counseling, hold some form of guiltor a personal responsibility for the assault because they invited the personup or because they agreed to go </p><br /><p>somewhere with the person. thisis definitely a cultural pressure and definitely gets integrated into aperson's concept of whether or not they were sexually assaulted and who isresponsible. i mean this is sort of the idea of what clothes you're wearing,being you know, asking for something just based on how you look. in terms of the life of acollege student, i'm not saying that in any way, that every college student whocomes to college is getting involved with partying and using alcohol and drugs, but itabsolutely happens and for some students it's the first time they're away fromhome, away from their families and other </p><br /><p>rules, that they've had. for people whoidentify as lgbtq, it might be the first time that they have a chance tocome out more comfortably, not a necessarily saying, that, that's the case, but it mightbe. more social networking, that might be different than it was in high school.there is trust and assumptions, you might be making, you're all here forthe same reasons and have the same goals and intentions. you might haveexpectations and desires to be liked, to be accepted socially, to be coupled andyou know, developmentally when you think about the transition from high school tocollege, the way that things work, socially andhigh school can be very different than </p><br /><p>college, so you might have thisexpectation, that you have to behave a certain way or do certain things, whenyou first get here, in order to be popular. when in fact, i think for a lotof students, the college experience is very different, once they've gotten used to it andlearned that. you're learning independence for the first time and so what happens to a lot of students for the beginning of the year,especially when they're freshmen, if they are involved in something, like drinkingor trying substances or going to parties, what sometimes happens? </p><br /><p>any ideas? sort of like whenyour kind of repressed, never alowed to do certain things and then suddenly youhave this open floodgate, of no curfew, no parents around, whatsometimes happens? you do everything. woohoo college! you go a little crazy. the hope is that, you know once you'velearned to figure out how to count your drinks, not get so drunk, that you throwup all over the place, you hope that the worst case scenario, for a person isthat they learn from their mistakes, they say whoops not going to do that again. then the next time they make a better choice. this is why the firstday of school, for freshmen, through thanksgiving break, is the most dangeroustime in terms of sexual assaults and </p><br /><p>it's actually been termed, the red zonebecause that is absolutely taken advantage of. before a personlearns from their mistakes and wises up, there are people who take advantageof that. in terms of sexual experimentation, it's completelydevelopmentally appropriate, to be doing that during college, but again that canbe taken advantage of as well. then also our cultural assumption, that somehowif someone is sexually active, especially women, are sexually active, that somehowthey deserve what happens to them. i think it's important to talk about whatpsychological characteristics of rape trauma look like, because we tend tominimize and downplay what the </p><br /><p>experience of a rape, is for a victim andagain this ties into all that victim blaming, attitude that we tend tohave. as a culture, we tend to view it more as,when someone reports of rape, i feel like a lot of times, i hear these reactions,that are somewhere along the lines of something like, you know you just had aregretful sexual encounter, just move on, it's no big deal, get over it, it's not a thing. where asfor the victim, of this violent crime, it actually, is absolutely, a huge deal andcan affect a person for years, in fact it can affect them for the rest of their lives ,in theway that they treat a sexual encounter, </p><br /><p>feel about a sexual encounter, even withsomeone who safe and it usually takes quite a bit of counseling and support toget through tha.t i think that counseling is very, very helpful, in addressing it,but to pass it off, like it's it's just a regretful, sexual encounter andoftentimes, accusing people of false reporting because they regretted it andthey don't want to deal with that, so they blame someone else, that is also i think a big victim blaming, cultural method. there are a lot of people out there,crying rape, the morning after regretting doing something. when in fact, thestatistic, is 2 to 8 percent of reports are false, which is the exact same as anyother crime. ninety two to ninety-eight percent </p><br /><p>of the time it's true. some of thesymptoms involved, are things like ptsd or acute trauma, grief, anxiety, depression,shame, some memory loss, a lot of times when a person is traumatized, they mightforget pieces of what happened, also adds to our doubt with our victim blamingattitudes, about whether or not a person is telling the truth, the whole truthbecause they come out with different information later on, when in fact that'sabsolutely a common symptom of trauma or the person had been drinking, so theydon't remember everything that happened. maybe they were blacked out, forpart of it. other examples are loss of control, </p><br /><p>shock and numbness. i think it'simportant for us to recognize, that i think we make judgments about victimsbased on, what we expect them to be and again, this is part of this, victimblaming piece, where we are scrutinizing, and questioning and always looking atthe person who's reported the crime versus the person who they're accusing.often times, were maybe thinking, why is this person acting this way, because we have this image in our head of what the perfect victim,should look like, you know so we might imagine someone who's crying all thetime, who gets really depressed or is </p><br /><p>showing the emotions that match thesituation, whereas if you are educated about trauma responses, you might notknow, that a very common reaction to trauma is shock and numbness. theperson may not be showing any emotion at all. in addition to that, theymight not remember everything that happened or they might remember thatlater. i think it's important for us to be educated about those pieces, aswell and to think about how we're questioning, who and why because as acultural we can we tend to go to the victim first and we don't do thatfor other crimes. if my house was broken into and god forbid, i was stabbed,is someone going to say, well </p><br /><p>you kind of asked for that because youleft your door open, and you should have been wearing body armor and youweren't, so you're kind of asking to be stabbed, that conversation would neverhappen. why is it so different, when it comes to violence, like sexualrelationship and gender violence. victims are often reluctant to report a sexualassault, for multiple reasons. some of which are retaliation, shame, guilt,embarrassment, fear that they won't be believed and lack of support. there's, ithink there's, shame and embarrassment in having to sexual story tell aboutexperiences, especially with people you don't really know. that'sabsolutely understandable, when i work </p><br /><p>with victims, i encourage them to report,if they want to and let them know that, that's an option and i absolutelysupport them if they want to, but i don't make them do anything that they don'twant to do, because the last thing you want to do for someone who has beenvictimized, in some way, is to re victimize them or take away more oftheir power and control by telling them what they have to do, but i think thisuniversity is doing a really good job moving forward and figuring out ways tobe transparent and open with students, about avenues for reporting andproviding, appropriate support, including offering them to us at the counselingcenter. there could be additional layers </p><br /><p>of complications forreporting, if you're talking about if a victim is male. i think that a lot ofthat has to do with our cultural assumptions, about what itmeans to be a real man, and what it means for a male victim or a victimidentifies as male. i also think that there are complications if you identifyanywhere on the lgbtq spectrum because there is potential for having toout yourself. maybe you're not out to everybody and in order to report it, youhave to sexual story tell about something that you're not comfortablewith. there will be additional layers of complication for differentpopulations. absolutely. </p><br /><p>the difference between risk reductionand prevention. i think that there is some confusion about or disagreementsabout what view you're taking, if you are in support of things like riskreduction or risk reduction techniques, like using a buddy system or talkingto your friends about where you're going. creating a safety plan or plans withyour friends, like if someone leaves the group or goes off with somebody else,what is the plan, in place for follow-up? drinking responsibly, knowing how tocount your drinks, defining your personal standards and sticking to them, thinkingahead of time about what you're comfortable with, in terms of engagingwith someone relationally or sexually </p><br /><p>and sticking to those or if you changeyour mind that's ok, but knowing that you're making that decision for yourself.being educated about what constitutes sexual assault, rape and consent andknowing campus resources like the counseling center, like public safetylike bucs press 2 line and asking for help. if you want that helped tobe confidential and you don't want to report it to the police or studentaffairs, you absolutely can come to the counseling center and do that or callthe bucs press two line. i think that some argue, that these techniques areencouraging people, especially women, to engage in these techniques, isadding to victim blaming. i want to argue </p><br /><p>against, that i want to argue it as a both/and situation. i think that it's important to make a distinction,that these are risk reduction techniques, not prevention techniques. it isnot a person's responsibility to prevent their own assault. it is not myresponsibility if somebody assaults me because i didn't drink responsibly orbecause i didn't talk to my friends, that's not on me, that's onthe person who perpetrated the assault. i also think that it's important tobe educated about these things because it can help you in these situations or to help avoid some of these situations and i have examples fromclients, in which this is absolutely </p><br /><p>happened. i had a client recently, whotold me that she wasn't as educated about the components of consent, earlierand she wasn't educated about how to stick to her own sexual standards anddesires and so she experienced sexual assault, didn't realize that, that's what it was and did not realize what her optionswere and now that she is educated about those things and now that she doesknow what her rights are and how to communicate what she's ok with and whatshe's not ok with, she has avoided situations in which she would have beenassaulted. it is absolutely, still the person's responsibility, who was pushingher, absolutely, it is not her </p><br /><p>responsibility, but those riskreduction techniques did help. in terms of prevention, when we're talking about personally being in the situation, you want toregard your own actions and behaviors. you want to learn to recognize sexes andwhen you see it or hear it. talk about sex with others, with the other personwho you are sexually engaged with and realize that sexual violence isprimarily a men's issue. now i'm not saying that men are the only ones whoare responsible for preventing sexual assault, that's absolutely not true, but becauseso much of this type of violence, in our culture is perpetratedby people identify as male, i think it's </p><br /><p>really effective and powerful for men totalk to other men. i feel like there are definitely some occasions in which i'vetalked to groups of men, and its been effective, it's been really good, but i can imagine howmuch better it would be if there was a man in a more peer, related leadershiprole, in that room and how they might have responded more honestly, differently. i think there's a lot to besaid for that. for the sake of time, i don't know if we havetime to watch this video, so we might we might come back to this. if you are ina situation, in which someone comes to you and reports that they've recentlybeen sexually assaulted, these are some </p><br /><p>ideas of what you can say. things like doyou need help? are you ok? this isn't your fault. is it ok for me to give yousome information? what do you need? do you want me to call someone for you?who are your social supports? notice that none of these options involvejudging, blaming, or forcing the person to do anything they don't want to do.you're letting them control, you're letting them make the decisions forthemselves. you're just letting them know that you're facilitating support forthem. this is another very effective mode of prevention, it's actually one of thethings that the the white house sexual assault task force has identified,as one of the most effective college </p><br /><p>interventions. can anyone tell me whatthe bystander effect? does anybody know? if your with a group of people and you see thatnobody else is reacting to something that you think is wrong, than you are less likely to react to it. yeah absolutely, it's a sociologicalconcept, that they've done lots of studies on. the more people who arepresent for some sort of crime being committed, the less likely it is that anyone person, will take responsibility to do anything because there's thisinherent assumption, that someone else is going to call the police, someone else isgoing to step in and so the idea bystander intervention, is the oppositeof that. it's taking personal </p><br /><p>responsibility, as a bystander andlooking at yourself as not necessarily a potential victim, not necessarily apotential perpetrator, but as a bystander to these crimes, that do happen or abystander to things that happened, that feed into ideas like rape culture andgender violence culture. you want to say something or do something if you see andhear something, that you know is not okay and this is a continuum, i'm not expecting you, ever of course, to be involved with seeing a relationshipviolence situation actually happening, in that moment. i don't expect you to beseeing a sexual encounter happen, that becomes sexual assault, but what you mightdo is, you might hear someone make a rape </p><br /><p>joke or you might hear someone saysomething really, degrading, inappropriate about somebody and you have a choicepoint there. you can say nothing, so even if you don't support it and you don'tlaugh or you don't say, that's really funny or that's ok, you're not doinganything and so in that moment the person who said those things, might nothave that opportunity to hear from someone that it's not okay. what i'mencouraging you to do is, on this continuum of hearing these things, to saysomething or do something, when you hear or see them. try to think, if this were my sister, ifthis were my brother, if this were my </p><br /><p>best friend, my partner, or a parent, whatwould i want for them? imagine if the person is saying a degrading commentabout them, imagine if they were saying that about your significant otheror about a family member. how would you want someone else to respond if theywere in your shoes? that's your responsibility, in that moment becausethat person is someone's family member, that person is someone's partner, potentially.recognize victim blaming attitudes, start paying attention to theway people talk about things and the way that you think about things. this is the campaign we have going oncampus right now, called buccaneer </p><br /><p>bystander intervention and this givesyou all sorts of different techniques, ideas, that you can use to intervene andwe actually have copies of these at the red flag campaign, so you can absolutelycome and pick up one from us tomorrow or you can always email me and i can sendyou a digital copy. i think it's important torecognize the distinction, jackson katz there is a video of him, but i don'tthink we're going to have time, but he came here in january and talked a littlebit about the idea of the bystander approach, that he sort of coined thatterm in the nineties and it's been used by a lot of bystander interventionprograms, to kind of create, the ideas of </p><br /><p>the programs and what he says is thebystander approach, the short term goal of it, is to normalize and prevent, sorry,to prevent assaults through an intervention skill set. sort of like those buccaneer, bystander ideas, there is a skill that you canlearn, so that you know how to intervene in those moments, but the long-termapproach is and i quote, to change the underlying belief system and socialnorms, that tolerate or encourage sexist and abusive behaviors, so itdoesn't really help that much to learn a skill set, if you don't genuinely believethat there are these beliefs and social norms that creates problems in the firstplace, so the only real use of those </p><br /><p>skill sets are to recognize that this isa cultural issue and that each time we were using these skill sets, we're actually trying to change theculture, we're trying to create a culture that is sex positive and that is aconsent culture versus a rape culture and gender violence supporting culture. i like the way this is termed as well,john damiano, is one of the sexual assault prevention activists atdartmouth college and he is specifically referring to a men's leadership programand so he calls them micro aggressions and i really like the ideaof that. he says that it means that on </p><br /><p>campus people set the precedent ofsexual assault is not ok and beyond that, all of the micro aggressions alongthe spectrum of harm, that lead to rape culture, are also not ok and those canrange from a rape joke, suggesting someone was asking for it, based on whatthey were wearing, to cat calling somebody, so these are sort ofthose steps spectrum of harm, i was talking about, in which you aren'tnecessarily going to stop sexual assault from happening in that moment, butthey're absolutely all these little micro aggressions along the way, that leadto supporting someone's belief that what they're doing is completely sociallyacceptable and i think that it is so </p><br /><p>powerful when peers rejectsomething, so if we as peers are making rape jokes and are normalizingcat calling people and judging people based on what they're wearing, than whatwe are basically communicating to these really small percentage of serialperpetrators, is that your behavior is totally, socially, acceptable right? ifwe start to say the opposite and that catches on and it suddenly becomes thegroup think, instead of just one individual stepping up, if you canrecruit other people into buying into this and believing this message, thensuddenly the peer group and the culture itself, begins to reject the behavior ofthis person andn i think that, that is the </p><br /><p>most powerful thing, me coming up hereand telling you that it's wrong and giving you all these statistics, ifsomeone who perpetrates these kind of things serially, they're probably notgoing to hear me in that moment, but what they might hear is if their entire peergroup rejects them, based on those behaviors. i think that the bystanderapproach, is extremely important and can be, potentially, the most effective thing,to addressing things like sexual violence and relationship violence. alright, i have time for one video. tryingto decide which one is the best one to do. i think the consent one is really fun, but i think there's one </p><br /><p>that's more important to show you. ifyou're familiar with tony porter, but he has a program called, a call to men, soit's a men's leadership program in addressing things like, gender and sexualviolence. i wanna play a clip from that. it's not loud enough. it's a good clip, to just show the complicationof how gender dynamics and expectations for genders in our culture, play out in termsof this kind of violence and of course this is very much, gender binary, thathe's talking about, so this leaves out people who identify as gender fluidor gender non-conforming, but i think </p><br /><p>that it's a common issue in our culture,that is all the time that i have and i want to leave a little bit of time forquestions. thank you so much for your attention and any questions that youhave feel free to ask me at this time. yes, i don't know that's a goodquestion. i think that, its population of the united states. no. yes. yep. yes. that's a good question. i mean sometimes that's the way that i frame it, as ifyou're not emotionally invested in this </p><br /><p>issue, you might be fiscally, because itcosts a heck of a lot, violence against women, sexual violence, relationship violence superexpensive. absolutely. yes it was.absolutely, absolutely, so if you're if your primary focus on this campus isretention and student success, you can't be academically successful if you'reexperiencing acute trauma, you just can't and shouldn't be expected to. that's afirst-order concern and it gets in the way. it's absolutely true. yes. sure sure, yeah. i mean, i don'thave any statistics on that in terms of college relationships vs relationshipsafter outside of college, but i do know in </p><br /><p>terms of more information onrelationship violence and the dynamics of that and how that plays out, inrelationships over time, the power and control wheel, i think is a really goodvisual to show, all the emotional psychological pieces, that add up toa controlling and powerful relationship. absolutely counts as relationshipviolence, whereas in our culture i think a lot of us think of, that kind ofviolence, as specifically physical or sexual and we have a ton of informationon that at the red flag campaign because the red flag campaign was originallycreated, specifically for dating violence on college campuses, but i i think that itis definitely, sometimes, a factor for </p><br /><p>college students as well, especially ifthe person is with someone who can helpprovide some financial stability or some support, and they can use thatto their advantage so the person becomes dependent on them or something like, theysign a lease together ,on an apartment and then the person is stuck in thatlease for the entire year, legally, so they're things like that or they share apet or something like that. absolutely comes up with collegestudents. even with and even if you think ofit in terms of owing someone something in just a sexual encounter or a morecasual relationship in college, you might </p><br /><p>have examples of, so i actually havebuttons that i made that have different pictures saying this is not consent and onehas a drink on it, one has a person in a skirt on it and one of them has movie ticketsand popcorn around it because again, like there's this idea that, there's some sortof obligation because someone spends money on you or takes you out to dinneror does something for you, that you owe them something sexually and that'sabsolutely, never true, that's absolutely a pressure that is communicated. because i'm so technologically unsavy, ineed to do my own research and do a lot more around that, because i'm just so outof the loop, but i have, i mean, we've set </p><br /><p>around the counseling center one day and accessedyik yak and we're just appauled, some of it was hilarious and some of it wasjust absolutely, appalling and some of the things that people were saying andindicating and talking about each other, really inappropriate, sexually violent,offensive and i think, that the anonymity that social media allows and theinternet generally allows, creates more of a violent response orcomfort, with having more violent responses and sort of like, that conceptthat very much applies to sexual violence and very much applies toviolence just generally in the world, is the idea of dehumanizing someone ormaking them more anonymous or less of a </p><br /><p>whole person and then being able to moreeasily enact of violence on them, so that happens when you objectifysomebody, they become less human or they become pieces of a human, but not a wholeand it's easier to be violent toward them and i think sort of in the same way,that you lose the humanity in a way, because you can't see, your not facing aperson or you can be nobody, when you say these things and i think that itencourages it. just like dinner and a drink, it's like amessage, right and having some sort of expectation. that's a really good point.beyond, even saying i'm inviting you to my space,i'm just sending you a message, which </p><br /><p>takes two seconds, no effort and thenthere's an expectation, that somehow you were owing the person something, becausethis is a good example of the consent piece, acting, choosing and changingyour mind. just because you have consented one time, doesn't mean that every time they textyou owe them anything. that's absolutely true. just wanted to let everyone know, thatit's one o'clock so you're welcome to stay, we can talk a little bitmore, but if you have to go, feel free it is that time. yes. i don't necessarily have an accurate answer, mydream is that it's because, my </p><br /><p>dream about it and i'm just going to saythis because i just want it to be this way, is just because they know more and we'vebeen more open and transparent and there's been more attention drawn to it,more people are talking about it, asking questions, reaching out for the resources, thatwe've been providing all this time, but i also think that, a piece of it is justthe national attention that this issue is getting, so i think that, my guess isthat, for people who are reporting there is probably a combination of factors andthey might include things like, hearing someone else on campus reported and youknow that there was some results or </p><br /><p>there was some response to it, hearing people talking about it andfeeling like it's being a little more normalized for them to report itthemselves and in addition to that seen it on the news prettyconsistently, reading it in the paper, hearing about it on social media, my hopeis that the combined factors of that, are making people feel more comfortablebecause this is a conversation that more people are having, than just advocateswho are passionate about the issue. yes making victim blamingassumptions, absolutely, this is still </p><br /><p>a huge issue, is people's reaction to,people coming forward and reporting and that's why i mentioned that is,they're absolutely a lot of, again it's asking questions about why didn't theyreport this earlier, why aren't more people reporting if this is actuallyhappening. first of all why are we asking that question? why is thatalways the first question that we ask? the answer is there are lots of reasons, fora person to not want to report, there is still an absolutely, a majority of culturalresponse, that is negative and victim blaming and judgmental and shaming, until i think that, until we normalize sexuality and talking about sexualityand being involved in sexual activity </p><br /><p>being ok and acceptable anddevelopmentally appropriate, that's very hard because there's so much guilt andshame and judgment of women when it comes tosexuality, the idea of sex and sexuality. my argument for that, is thatthere needs to be sex education in schools, way earlier than there is and it needsto be actual sex education, not abstinence only or fear tactic educationand that's why i encourage you to watch the john oliver video because there is a lot of research now that's coming out, talking about how differentcountries, like norway and sweden and all </p><br /><p>sorts of countries in europe, that areteaching kindergartners, in kindergarten and it continues through because evenkindergartners are starting to be curious about their body parts and ifyou wave away a child's hand from their body parts orsay that's dirty or don't even give it a name, that leaves them with feelings of shame and guilt around those things even as early asfive years old, just continues and gets worse. absolutely could, sort of goes back to the idea that, a lot of times, jackson katz talks a lotabout this, about how we use language, </p><br /><p>i think of theidea of you know, sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurtme, is not true. the language that we use and the words that we use, can bevery hurtful and can determine a lot of the ways that we have cultural responses ormake assumptions about things and that includes, by not being very clear aboutwho were holding responsible for perpetrating sexual violence or whatwe're holding responsible for that, instead of just saying, well it's kind of relatedbecause there are two, it was really two people, takes two to tango, you hear thata lot when it comes to life and even the way that you hear it portrayed innewspaper articles and the media, it's </p><br /><p>situation gone wrong orsomehow, there's this mysterious thing that happened, but no one specificperson is really being held accountable, just sort of happened to a person, evenjust that passive language, not being very clear, like violence was perpetratedagainst a person by a person and this is who the perpetrator was, but we don't dothat we kind of pull that out of the language that we use or treat itlike, well this person sent a picture back, well she was a nine year old, so howis this not an issue. it's really complicated because what happens is when peoplebecome open advocates they get fired, so </p><br /><p>there's tons of research to backup the direct correlation between lack of sex education and teen pregnancyrates. it's absolutely true. presentations i do, i start by askingwhere people learned about sex for the first time and its reallyfascinating to hear people talk about where it is and its almost never intheir sex education and when it is, when someone has had that kind of uniqueexperience everyone is like wow, that's so unique. for the most part, it's liketheir older brother telling them wrong </p><br /><img align="center" src="" alt="sex education in schools" /><br /><p>information about where things go orlike hearing in the locker room or porn. if you've learned that from both </p><br /><p>places like which one is right, i'm soconfused. well, thank you all so much for coming. iappreciate it. </p></div><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8FZarVF6Hfg?rel=0" frameborder="0" 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elizabeth haller: it’s my pleasure to introduceto you about herbs <a href="http://www.jual-hajarjahanamcair.com/" target="_blank">hajar jahanam</a> this afternoon our plenary speakers, a panel of incredible young people from advocatesfor youth. we have laura duque. laura is a first year student at the university of north carolina at chapel hill where she studiesjournalism, media studies with a specialization.<br />
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sex education in high school, in public relations. jorian rivera is a puerto rican hiv youthactivist who is currently living in philadelphia. cydney brown is a recent graduate with a psychologymajor and a minor in swahili at howard university and a member of the youth resource center. <br />
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lexus phillips is comparative women’s studiesmajor and sociology minor at spellman college with a passion for social justice. through the art of storytelling and a guideddiscussion, our youth panelists will share their experiences to reflect on the developmentand implementation of sexual health care services and programs that are inclusive of lgbtq youth. the panel will be facilitated by louis ortiz-fonseca,the program manager for the lgbtq health and rights at advocates for youth. he is also a national known facilitator, publishedspoken word artist and photographer. his current project, the grand varones isa documentary in photo essay highlighting <br />
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the experiences of latino gay men in philadelphia. give it up. there will be q&a. there are four mics in the audience that wewould like you to go ahead and come to ask questions and answers. we want this to be an integrative sessionby the end of the panel. for now, i‘d like to turn it over to louisand the team. thank you. louis: thank you. <br />
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can everyone hear me? so this is like my talk show dream come true. so again, please tweet and use the hashtag. we wanna have as much presence on social mediacause there are many folks who are interested and committed in the work that we are doing,supporting and raise enough who do not have access to this space so we can share whatwe are hearing, listening, and learning with those who can’t be here. please do so, it’s #2016tpp and if takepictures of me and post on instagaram, i ask that you use the inkwell filter. <br />
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you gotta ask for what you need. so, just a quick blurb about advocates foryouth. advocates for youth works with young leaders,adult allies, and youth service agencies to promote policies and programs that make accessibleand factual sexual health information to all young people. our vision is based in the 3 r’s: rights,respect and responsibility. we believe that young people have the rightto adequate and factual sexual health information. we believe that young people believe respectand that society has the responsibility to provide these things for young people andthat young people have the responsibility <br />
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to protect themselves. so i want to thank you for sharing this timeand space with us as we all, especially in cultures of people of color, storytellingprovides healing and it opens up spaces that are not necessarily provided for us outsideof storytelling. so who in here is a parent? raise your hand. i’m a parent of a 13-year old, help me. who in here works with young people? who in here works with young people in programs? <br />
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in churches? schools? who funds programs? you all matter too. alright, so i want to welcome you to thatspace and invite you to open your hearts and minds. what’s beautiful about hearing young peopleshare their stories, that it reminds us and grounds us in our commitment to working withyoung people. the other side of it is that we may hear sometruths that may be hard for us as adults who <br />
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are working hard, who go home exhausted, whothink that we are doing and giving our all to this work and sometimes hearing that thatintention is not always met can be really jarring, right? so i wanna, that’s okay. there’s nothing wrong with that. what is glorious about this is that we getto hear young people really provide us a different perspective. not a right one, not a wrong one, but a differentperspective. so i invite you not to hear what you’regonna hear as if you’re not doing enough <br />
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and that you are not approaching the workwith your full heart. right? i want you to hear it just as another opportunityto learn something else. so i’m gonna get us started, and again,there’s no right or wrong. it is what it is. okay? alright, so first question if you can justlet folks know what your name is again and your gender pronoun and then the first questionis: tell us a little bit about what it was like when you were in high school. <br />
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what do you remember about the sex educationyou received, either in classes or in formal programs that you might have gone to afterclass or after school or any other resources? so what was it like to get sexual health informationduring a time in high school either both inside of school or outside programs you might havegone to. and we’ll start with laura. laura: once again my name is laura duque. pronouns: she, her, hers and i grew up innorth carolina and i honestly don’t remember much about my sexual education class, onlybecause it was two weeks long and it was referred to as health class, not sex ed and that classfocused more on the importance of eating healthy <br />
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and doing exercise but i do remember my sexualeducation class in middle school because that one was actually a little bit longer, it wasa semester long and i just remember it was taught by my gym coach, coach r and it wasin this part of the gym that was where they put all the storage and i was like excitedabout it. i was like, “okay, this is my time to askall the questions that i need to ask†and i then realized that coach r was the one thatwas going to be talking to us and i was like “i can’t talk to him. i have to do push ups next time i see himand i can’t… no.†<br />
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i just remember having to watch that movie,the miracle of life, i think it’s called and just being terrified like “oh okay,oh that’s what happens,†and not having any context whatsoever of what we were gonnawatch just it being like “okay, this is what it looks like to have a baby and it’sscary so don’t do it†and the education that i received was mostly abstinence only. i remember even having to do a rap about abstinence. which was kind of interesting, now that ilook back on it. but i guess my experience was a little bitbetter than other peoples’ because my little sister, for example, she’s about to starthigh school and at her middle school, sex <br />
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ed class was, i think it only lasted for threeweeks and you could potentially get out of it if your parents just signed something. so i was like kind of lucky, i got kind oflucky that it was a little bit longer but it was still not what i wanted and what ineeded at that time. i also grew up in a very catholic communityso we never really talked about sex and if someone got pregnant, they were either supposedto get married before anyone found out that they had sex outside of marriage or they wouldget an abortion and everyone knew that it was happening but no one talked about it. so growing up in that community with thoseideals, i felt like i couldn’t talk to my <br />
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parents about sex and i couldn’t talk tomy teachers about sex and so, i would say that my school system and my community failedme when it came to sexual education. lexus: hi, again, my name is lexus. my pronouns are she, her. in terms of my sex ed, similar to laura, itwas late middle school, early high school, gym teacher, and it was not abstinence onlyeducation but it was still to me at the time kind of a very minimum, kind of just one interms of like “this is the ins and outs of sex, no pun intended.†like this is “how sex works.†<br />
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and then these are “the 3 most common stds/stisâ€and then “these are condoms and these are pills.†that was about it, it was not really talkingabout different contraceptive methods, not talking about non-heterosexual sex, whichas i got older and got into high school and realized that i was not heterosexual, i realizedthat i wasn’t included in that conversation and that there were questions and things thati was wondering about that weren’t being answered. so within school, it was taught but only kindof to an extent. more like “okay, we checked off what youwere supposed to know†but it wasn’t a <br />
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lot of room for questions or for really goingdeeper into the conversation, it was kind of like the basics “this is covered, thereyou go, you took your sex ed.†outside of school, my faith community. i grew up in memphis, tennessee, predominantlychristian home and childhood and it was more of a, “we don’t talk about sex and ifwe do talk about sex, it’s in the context of not doing it†and not discussing whathappens if you are questioning and wondering what you wanna do, again what happens if youare not necessarily into having sex with the opposite sex. and so that was just not necessarily any roomfor me to ask questions either because it <br />
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was a very clear message of what was and wasn’tsupposed to be done. other than that, peer groups were the mainscope of what i learned anything from was what other people were doing, or claimed theywere doing, or what they looked up, what they found out which was of course, now in hindsight,a lot of misinformation so even though so much misinformation was ironically the largestarea in which i learned about sex was through my peers and not necessarily through the peoplewho were supposed to be teaching me about it. so that’s me. cydney: hi everyone, my name is cydney andmy pronouns are they, them, theirs. <br />
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most of my… how i remember my sex educationwas, um, in middle school it was definitely abstinence only, we were separated by genderand really just talked about the mechanics of it and, at that time, i already knew iwas not interested in having sex with someone of the opposite gender so i was like “noneof this applies to me. what do i do?†and i was also in a household where we justdidn’t talk about sex. it just, it was the big scary thing that’snot supposed to happen until you’re married. that’s another story. so actually my sex education in high schoolwas interesting because it was about two weeks <br />
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long and it literally started the day afteri had sex, the first time i had sex. and my sex, my first experience was terrible. i did not know what i was doing, we did nottalk about consent, we did not talk about what we wanted, any of those things and soi remember my teacher beginning the conversation with talking about mechanics and pregnancyand all that stuff and i’m in the room like “this doesn’t help me and what just happenedin my life so what are we gonna do?â€. you know i’m waiting and waiting for himto talk about something. just something that’s gonna let me know,like make me feel better about the decision i had made and nothing happened, like in ourtextbook, one, there were no black folk in <br />
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the textbook and then let alone anyone who’shaving non-heterosexual sex so i’m just in the space like “i don’t know what todo.†if it wasn’t for organizations outside ofmy school system like my youth center in eastern market called smile that provided sex workshopsand talked about the things i was going through, i would have thought i was invisible in thatclassroom. like none of these things that were happeningin these textbooks could happen to me because i’m not having this type of sex. so that was how i felt about it and reallyjust reflecting on it now, just remembering things that just didn’t happen, like noone said the word abortion. <br />
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i don’t think abortion came up in conversationunless i was having a conversation with my family and it was on the news or something. so just being cognizant of these things, thesemessages that i never received or never saw or dangerous messages like these things can’thappen to me because i’m not in this textbook. jorian: hello everyone, my name is jorian,i go by he, him, his, but i also go by all pronouns. i grew up in north philadelphia. i am puerto rican, hispanic man growing upin north, i’m gay also. i’ll put that out there, i don’t knowwhy. <br />
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right, it does help. growing up, i was in school up until highschool. from high school, from ninth to twelfth grade,i was homeschooled at that point due to the fact that i was homeschooled was the fact,because all through elementary school and middle school, i was picked on for being theodd kid. i was being called faggot, gay, queer, alltypes of names and at this point, at that point in my life, i didn’t know what thosewords meant and my teacher was like “do you know what these mean?†i’m like “no†he’s like “then don’tworry about it, it’s not for you to know <br />
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right now.†so i’m like “oh, okayâ€, and just skippedmy way through the classroom like a queer little boy that i am. so, at that point, growing up also, i learnedhow to have sex through like, i don’t want to say through watching cause that soundshorrible but i didn’t get it from school. i didn’t. because going to elementary school and middleschool, they taught us like what they were saying, they taught us the three std’s thatanybody could get: gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, and they taught us about the four deadly h’swhich is herpes, hpv, hepatitis b and hiv. <br />
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so that’s pretty much it. like these are things you need to know, that’sit, that’s bam. good. oh they also taught us how a man gets erected,they talked about how women get orgasms and i was like “this stuff, i don’t need toknow these things. i’m only seven years old. why do i need to know how a man gets erectedfor?†i’m like “did that happen to me?†theni go “i’m not ready for puberty.†but then at that point, like i said the reasonwhy i went into homeschool because i was bullied <br />
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and picked on so that was my safe haven. that was my sanctuary to be who i was andnot be anybody else who told me what to be. going through that period of being homeschooled,they still didn’t teach me about sex education. it was physical education, gym. you know, stay fit, stay healthy, you livea longer lifespan. but where is the knowledge behind all of that? so if i get gonorrhea, what do i do afterthat? where do i go? do i not deal with it? <br />
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do i not treat it? is it treatable? is it curable? is it cancerous? like where do i get this information fromand that was not given. it was like “just put a condom on it andyou’ll be fine.†“okay..†“well then how do you use a condom?†“oh so this is what you do†“okay, sowhat do you do with it when you’re done <br />
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with it?†it’s like you have all these questions inthe back of your head but these teachers, well my teachers at the time, they don’twant to answer these questions because they felt like it was too much. but you’re my teacher. if you’re my teacher, it’s your responsibilityto educate these students so that way these students know what they’re going into inthe real world. you graduate high school and college and it’slike okay, now you’re automatically ready for the real world. <br />
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well, i’m not, i wasn’t ready for thereal world. and i’m still not ready for the real world. i’m 23 years old and i’m still tryingto figure myself out. but it’s like you come up with these, asa person growing up, you don’t get a manual. you don’t get a manual how your life works. so you kind of have to take it day by day. well okay, this is what’s gonna happen todayand then all the sudden you get a curve ball , you’re like “aw, man. i gotta take this detour, this detour†but,you know, but that all falls in line with <br />
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sex education. sex education is all about detours. okay if this happened, then what do you haveto do to get here in order to get left then right again? you have to start at a to get to z, don’tyou? so it’s like, where do you find all thisinformation from? and teachers don’t necessarily do that,well back in the day, like i said back in the time, you know, learning these things,i wasn’t given that. and it’s funny cause i guess there was along line of your gym teacher being your health <br />
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teacher, it’s like oh, so everyone had agym teacher who was also a health teacher. that understand why, you know, because a gymteacher is only for sports and not sex education. so that’s my upbringing. louis: so you guys shared some of the informationthat you might have received or something that was kind of incomplete for you. like the education, the intention to provideyour education just left you with more questions. so what do you think would have been effectiveduring that time? so you shared what didn’t work, what wasn’tcomplete, what may have felt short, but on the other side of that, what would have providedyou the space or the information that you <br />
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needed? cydney: 1) to stop framing sex as this bigscary thing. for me, especially growing up in the housethat i did, my mom, her first messages to us was like “you get pregnant, i’ll killyouâ€. that was the first thing and i was like “ohhhhokay, so i don’t want that.†so we’re not gonna have this. sex is a natural occurrence. it’s not something that’s, well it’svery major when it’s your first time and all that stuff but it’s, it’s great mostof the time, so changing the framework from <br />
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it being this big scary enigma that no oneseems to really understand to rather just changing the conversation to, “hey. this happens. these are things that you can use to protectyourself. these are the kinds of sex that happens butif there’s other types of sex that you like to have, that you like to have, then that’sokay too.†take the shame out and just create an openspace for dialogue and to create a space for questions like i would have never asked myteacher, “how do i have sex with a person with a vagina?†<br />
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ever. and i would have never asked them, i wouldn’thave even had the conversation about consent, how do you ask someone who’s the same genderas you but older than you about consent because at that time, in my sexual experience, shewas older so i gave her everything that she told her do whatever you want. but we didn’t have that, i didn’t knowhow to have the conversation about what i wanted. you know, how do we make the space safer forstudents to really get to those really important questions about “hey, i want to make surethat i feel safe with my partner. <br />
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how do i talk to them about this?†or “iwant to let my partner know that this is how i want to protect myself or this is the typeof sex that i want to have†like, how do we allow students to feel safe having thoseconversations with educators, because otherwise they’re going to go to their peers which,sometimes is okay, sometimes we know a lot more than we think we do but up until a point. teachers are our primary source of informationso this is where, this is the information we want, this is the information we’re seeking,so, can you provide it for me? and if not, then give me some place wherei can. where i can get it. <br />
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laura: looking back, i think that i would’vewanted someone that looked like me to teach me about sex. someone who was you know, only a couple ofyears older than me, not like from another generation. louis: excuse me? laura: sorry, sorry. i mean only like a few years older, not likesomeone from like the 70’s or something. you know? sorry, sorry. <br />
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louis: security. laura: well, i had to say it. i wish that i would’ve learned about allthe different types of contraceptives there are and i wish that my teacher would havetold us that it was okay to think about sex. to be thinking about our own sexual healthand that there was nothing wrong with that. and that there were other ways in which youcould prevent getting pregnant other than just staying away from sex altogether. i think that if my friends and i had thatexperience, we would have been able to make better choices about our own sexual health. <br />
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jorian: i like what people have said. what i wanted more was to get it from an educationstandpoint. an education and not from my parents or mysiblings cause you know, i grew up in a puerto rican household, so there’s a lot of kidsrunning around so i don’t where they all come form like “oh, you’re my brothertoo? oh, what’s up? what’s good? what’s going on?†and you don’t knowwhere, you know, i grew up with cousins on top of cousins. <br />
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i had second cousins and third cousins soin my household, you know, i grew up from a jehovah’s witness background, growingup, so no one really told me the no sex before marriage kind of thing because my parentsdidn’t really talk about it growing up, like everybody. so my whole thing is like growing up in abig household, i’m like “oh, okay, well cool, everyone has kids so i mean obviouslyit comes from somewhere†but no one. when your parents just tell you about thebirds and the bees it’s like a 1, 2, 3, this is what happens, this is what happens,this is what happens ,1, 2, 3. i would have preferred it from a more educationstandpoint. <br />
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more from, though i guess, the 5 w’s inthe house, where coming from a relationship standpoint, especially in your youth, you’regoing into these relationships with a very young mind you don’t know what’s goingon, what’s gonna happen so coming from that point on. especially for young teens, if they’re gonnaget into relationships then take that extra precaution on what to do if they are goingto have sex. especially from the teacher or the nurse orthe principal or the dean be like “hey teacher, this is what’s going on. we had sex for the first time†and to beopen and honest about certain thing. <br />
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it’s going to happen so be open and honestand be like “listen, we did it for the first time, what’s the next step?†“we did it with a condom, blah blah blah[inaudible] but we also want to take the extra step and go get tested so where do we go to?â€and we have teachers be like, “well i don’t know, call, you know, look up, you know, google,or, talk to your mom and dad.†so at this point it’s like i would prefermore of a teaching in a clinical standpoint, you know, for teachers and for everyone inthe school system to be aware of what’s going on. cause i’m pretty sure everyone’s awarethat kids are having sex. <br />
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but we need to be aware, we need to be moreaware of that and be ready for when we have those kids who are well known and know a lotmore than we think we know, to be ready for those kind of conversations. and not to be nervous or scared of, if someone’scoming up to you, like a kid who’s probably 16 coming up to you and being like “i hadsex but i had unprotected sex†i wouldn’t really feel ready well “when’s the lasttime you did it?†you know, coming from the clinical, comingfrom the organization i work for, it’s part of my job to ask certain questions. professional questions, so i would want thatmore from more people, you know, information <br />
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at least, or more information or what i cando. lexus: so i’m really passionate about thisquestion so i have some very specific things to say. i emphasize the point about removing the shamefrom conversations around sex. one because it cannot be said enough eventhough it’s been said, that kids are having sex. period. and in your position as an educator, i feellike that is a moment and a space that removed from your opinions or feelings regarding that,you are in these classrooms with these students <br />
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and these conversations, whether it’s somethingthat you want to happen or not, are a large part of what they and their peer groups discuss. it’s happening. so it needs to be addressed from that perspectiveof honesty because when they see that you’re squeamish about it then 1) they don’t wantto come to you about things and then 2) it makes them start to feel squeamish about it. so it’s not just about, “oh, well kidsare doing it and it needs to be done.†i emphasize the point that shame needs tobe removed form conversations about sex because i know personally that that seeps into deeperthings because when we’re talking about <br />
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or not talking about sex because it’s sex,that leads to, in my opinion, deeper issues about our bodies, about our comfort with ourselves. if we’re not gonna talk about, you know,vaginas and penises, we’re not gonna talk about our own physical anatomy, that’s natural,that’s our physical anatomy. i got to my college first year biology ofwomen course and there are folks in that class who don’t know or are uncomfortable withtheir own physical anatomy because we are so scared to talk about sex. when separate of sex, you need to know whensomething is going wrong that’s something that you need to go seek medical care for. <br />
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it’s about sexual health and reproductivehealth, period. not just “oh, these are the parts that areattached to, you know, when we have sex.†so when we don’t wanna talk about sex, thatmeans we don’t talk about physical things in general that make people feel less comfortablewith their bodies, with their sexual parts, with the health of those parts, period. so i feel like that makes people not justhave shame about sex, but have shame about their bodies in general. i think that i would have liked to see mysex education be less sexist. and by that i mean that on one hand, thatmeans that, often, what i find in my experience <br />
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and in others’ that i’ve shared conversationswith, that often the conversations either explicitly or implicitly center the responsibilityof deciding to have sex, deciding not to have sex, being the one to have to have conversationsabout protection and have conversations about pregnancy and what happens then are all placedupon young women identified folks. and it’s a burden that carries again intothe shame piece where, not only do you not feel comfortable having conversations aboutsex, but then you realize not only do you feel uncomfortable, but you’re the one withmore of a burden regarding what happens, what doesn’t happen, and all of that. so, yeah, i think that a major part of re-shapingsex education, not be placing the emphasis <br />
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on young women and “what are you gonna do?â€because that removes responsibility from young men and then it’s also sexist to them tobe placed in a position of, “this is what a man does during sex.†not only do placing these gender roles onwho does what during sex hurt women, it hurts men too because you end up with these ideasof desire and who’s supposed to do this and who’s supposed to do that, and peoplewatch porn and that’s not real. and it just misinforms you on what real sexis supposed to be like, it’s not what sex is really like but when you don’t teachfolks what it’s really supposed to be like, they think that, “okay, well the guy’ssupposed to do this, i’m not supposed to <br />
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be able to say what i’m interested in, whatmy needs are or what feels uncomfortable.†and that to cydney’s point about healthydialogue, i think that’s the other, that’s the last point that i think needs to be included. it’s that sex is not just about the sexpart, like, i think we get so squeamish about the sex part, that we remove the fact thatat some point you can, you have to, and you should know how to ask consent to even getto that. how to express what your needs are romantically. sexually, not just what your needs are interms of what makes you feel comfortable, what your needs are in terms of what you like,what you don’t like. <br />
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sex is not just about the physical part, it’sabout the person that you’re sharing that experience with and how do you converse withthem to make it something that is satisfying and comfortable for both of you and becausewe’re so scared to talk about the sex part, we don’t get to healthy relationships andpeople are out here doing things that are violent and harmful to themselves and othersbecause they don’t understand that there’s things and agreements and consent and needsthat need to be expressed and done before you even get to the sex part. louis: she’s trying to get a spinoff. i’m gonna have to have a conversation withmy producers. <br />
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now that you all covered a lot, especiallyaround the consent and removing the shame around conversations around sex i think historically,when we think about sex education, not necessarily the people in this room, but just some parentswho may not have access to a lot of the information that we have, and then we punish them. we punish parents who opt out their childrenfrom classes. as opposed to figuring out new ways to havedialogue that expand the conversation around how to know when you are ready, like whatsteps, what three steps can you do when you think that you are? are there three adults you can talk to? <br />
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what does consent look like? what is being comfortable with your body lookinglike? or even what does intimacy look like? for some folks, being paid attention to orbeing seen as a magical person, sometimes there are some folks, some youth are justsocialized to repay that with, you know, bodies touching. and not that there’s anything wrong withthat but kind of like really just expanding what intimacy looks like, what consent lookslike, and what sex ed looks like. you know, we, i too got my sex ed throughmy gym teacher and i think that on paper, <br />
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it feels like it makes sense, right, becausewe’re talking about the body, talking about being healthy, but a lot of the dots weren’tcrossed, right? and again i think that’s why this panel’simportant cause it allows us new perspectives like “oh, when i go back i can think aboutthis†or “i can expand the conversation to include removing shame or the importanceof understanding your body†that not just around the sexual act, but just around beinghealthy and understanding that all these feelings are normal, that there’s nothing wrong withyou, but that young people have a space to have that conversation so thank you very much. a lot of conversation has generally been centeredaround youth overall, but i wanna get more <br />
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specific around lgbtq youth of color. and what things do you think school and communitybased organizations can do to better serve lgbtq youth of color? jorian: sga, with the straight gay alliance,we need a lot more of that, i feel like. around lgbtq of color, i’m a man of color,i know i might not look it cause my pigmentations is like very translucent but – thank you. it’s the lighting. they use valencia. more straight gay alliance, more open discussionsabout lgbt of color. <br />
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we don’t have a lot of that and i went toschool where it was predominantly black or i went to school where it was predominantlyhispanics and black so being in that environment, it was always an open discussion about peopleof color because i went to school like that. when i went to, when i was home schooled from9th to 12th grade, it wasn’t talked about as much so i was confused. because when i opened a conversation aboutpeople of color, it was completely pushed away because no one wanted to talk about thatsituation because they feel like, you know, certain people have higher power than peoplelike me because i live, because people like me might live on a poverty line or peoplelike me don’t go as far as you know, on <br />
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certain things. so i feel more strongly about straight gayalliance because if we get more people like my best friends who are straight to supportmy decision and support where i’m going in life, that’s one person i got through,so if i can get through one person, imagine what i could do with a whole room like thisthat have people on my back. we need to stop having these, i always usethis analogy, it’s like boiling water, we don’t mix. and i want to start mixing and stop this hate,you know, what we see on social media because this person’s gay or this person’s blackand gay or this person is a drag queen and <br />
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he’s black and gay or because you know thestigma because he has hiv, you know, he’s black, gay or brown, or stuff like that. i want to change that idea, i want to changethat format that we see here every day on this world because not for nothing, peoplesee hiv as a man of who i am 23 years old living with hiv, i’ve been diagnosed withhiv for three years now and i’ve been stigma, i’ve been stigma’d for so long becausei’m a man of color. and people think, “oh well he’s puertorican, so obviously, he’s gay, puerto rican and a spic and he had sex unprotected†or“well his boyfriend’s black, i guess where he got his hiv from.†<br />
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that’s not the case. yes, my partner is black. but i can tell you right now he is hiv negative. i didn’t get it from him. so why point fingers at me for being thatway? why? because you have a better job than me? because you have a better car than i do? so that way you can point fingers at me whileyou drive by? <br />
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“oh look an interracial couple, hiv automatically.†it’s not fair for that. i don’t go around pointing fingers at straightpeople being like “listen, you’re straight.†i don’t, we don’t, when you see peoplein front of you, what i was taught is you don’t judge a person by how they look. you don’t judge a person by what the colorof their skin is, what they go through cause you don’t know, no one knows what peoplego through on a daily basis. you know, so for me to be like, “okay wellthat person’s straight, let’s see what he goes through on an everyday basis. <br />
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oh nothing because he obviously has the perfectworld.†but you want to look at me and be like “oh,well he lives on poverty line, he gets welfare, ssi checks.†well i could be a bad person and go to thegovernment and get ssi check for having hiv. i could be that person. but i’m not. because i want to prove to the straight communitysome time, for the ignorant people in the straight community that i am just like youon an everyday basis. i work hard for my money, i go home and takecare of my home, and my animals, and my mom, <br />
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and my brothers and sisters. and i do it all over again the next day. and on top of that, i gotta make sure i feedmyself and take a shower. cydney: i think that educators and administratorsand funders have to realize that lgbt youth of color deal with specific intersections. i’m black, queer, masculine presenting,which comes with a whole other level of connotations because when i walk into a space, a lot ofpeople 1) don’t even know what my gender is. the first thing they see is my blackness sothere are automatically stigmas associated <br />
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with my blackness, where i come from, whatincome i might have, what things that i know. and then depending on the day, i’m eitherseen as a black lesbian and i’m automatically masculinized for some particular reason. and then, like there are just a lot of minutethings that i go through on a regular basis that a lot of educators i feel like don’trealize that their students are going through at the same time. so when you are dealing with a student whois at these intersections, you have to find a way to meet them there. so, let’s say you have a student who wasdiagnosed hiv positive. <br />
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okay, where you gonna, first you’re gonnasay “go to a doctor.†what if the student can’t afford to go tothe doctor? can you tell them where the nearest clinicis? can you tell them where to get any kind oftreatment from? can you tell them what affordable programsthat are available to them? what resources can you provide to them sothat you can help them navigate these intersections without either having to sacrifice a partof their identity or erase it entirely. so, it’s hard. you know having that level of consciousness;i call it like opening your third eye on a <br />
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physical level. you have to be aware of all of these differentdynamics because nothing is unilateral, nothing is monolithic and nothing in any minoritycommunity is monolithic so you have to be able to take away these standards that youthink, that people tend to think that all students have and realize that, if you havesome who, someone made it clear, so let’s say you’re a doctor or you come, you havea patient that comes to you and they’re not taking their medicine and so your frustratedbecause this person’s not taking their medicine. that person might not be able to afford theirmedication. or that person might have to decide betweenbuying medication or providing for their family; <br />
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family’s gonna come first. so, rather than getting on this high horse,try to meet people where they are. try to understand that the multi dimensionsof people’s existence. and that takes a great deal of education butit’s out there so ask questions. y’all are educators, y’all want peopleto ask you questions, you should be able to ask them as well. lexus: i think that 1) i think that lgbtqyouth of color are in need of mentors. now, i understand that within the educationsystem, there are barriers within that system that for folks who are lgbtq identified inclassrooms make it hard for them to put themselves <br />
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in the position to be in that space. given those systems at play, they’re partof the problem. those systems are part of the problem thatthey even can’t be themselves in the classroom in the first place. so, whether it’s teachers making themselvesavailable in the classroom that they can, outside of school programs and resources ororganizations connecting with classrooms if they have more of an ability and a capacityto be in that mentorship position that’s necessary. whatever avenue it can come from, i say thatmentorship is necessary because via racism, <br />
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via sexism, classism, via white supremacists,racists, capitalists, federal patriarchal society, either one that people who wouldbe their mentors are not in the position to do so and if they are, because of said laws,or lack of anti-discrimination policies, they can’t. so, with that in mind, students don’t seepeople that look like them and that’s a major part of even, for some of these students,they don’t know how they’re going, they don’t see themselves living day to day. i was at another conference and another panelistsaid that they only saw themselves living to a certain age because they didn’t seepeople who looked like them beyond that. <br />
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so, seeing people who look like you existingand being well and whole and all their identities matter so much to even being able to imagineyourself in that position, especially when you’re not on television, when you’renot seeing anywhere else in culture or media and when you are, it’s a negative presentation. and i think that with those types of experiencesin mind, it’s particularly critical for lgbtq youth of color to have mental healthand wellness resources when they are not in the position to be able to express what isgoing on with them and what experiences they are having at all of these intersections,they are dispositioned to be more likely to experience anxiety and depression, to experienceself-harm practices, to commit suicide. <br />
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they’re more likely to do that because theydon’t see themselves in anywhere else and they don’t have people to talk to aboutthat so mental health and wellness services are necessary and if you’re going to bea school that has no tolerance, bullying, and harassment policies to your point abouthaving to leave school systems because of that. if you’re going to say you’re no tolerance,be no tolerance. and call things by their name. there’s no, it’s not just for any reasonthat the only brown or lgbtq or non-binary identified person or all of the above is theone in your classroom expressing that they’re <br />
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having problems. don’t invalidate their experiences whenclearly they are having those experiences and if you’re no tolerance policies aresupposed to be in place, do that because when you don’t, they see that and they know thatthat basically means that you’re calling their experience unreal and you’re invalidatingthat it happened. laura: i think that, if you’re gonna saythat you’re an ally to the lgbtq+ community, you have to include lgbtq+ people in youreducation. specifically, lgbtq+ people of color. yeah, okay, you can change your profile pictureon facebook to the rainbow flag or, you know, <br />
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say “oh okay, i have so many friends thatidentify as this†but the fact that we’re not including people of color, lgbtq+ people,in conversations about sex, that shows that we’re still seeing those people as somethingelse, something different. and what that ends up doing to kids who aregrowing up in those environments is they feel weird, they feel like there’s somethingwrong with them, that thinking about having sex with a person that maybe does not fitthe, whatever mold that is presented in sexual education is wrong and so, what they end updoing is they end up turning to other sources that may not necessarily be reliable and whenthey engage in sexual relationships, it ends up being kind of like under the rug, underthe table and not talked about and more often <br />
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than not, they’re not being safe and theydon’t know what they’re doing and they have no one to reach out to so i think wehave to start with including people that come from all backgrounds and not just assume thateveryone is going to have the same experience when it comes to sex. louis: as an adult, because i’m learningto be comfortable as an adult, you’ve got plenty years boo, so there are a couple thingsi’ve been working in a nonprofit for 20 years and i’m not sure who but i heard thatthere’s this prescribed approach to working with lgbtq, sort of like an intake form, right? who in here has to fill out an intake form,you ask identity, name, race, class, socioeconomic <br />
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background, because those are indicators thatpeople would qualify for programs that would provide much needed services, right? and then on the other we get trained to dothat right, we have long staff meetings where we come up with these great and affirmingand inclusive intake forms and then we get told that that’s too prescribed. so remember in the beginning when i said there’sno right or wrong. so i use the intake form as an example becauseit is a tool to support conversation, it is not a guide and those are the distinctions. so an intake form provides us with informationso we can better support young people in seeking <br />
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and accessing services that are pertinentto their health. but it cannot be a prescribed interaction. and that’s what makes it inauthentic androbotic for young people. now they’re just being experienced as checkboxes. and expand the conversation around healtharound gay and queer men beyond hiv. as a brown, queer, afro-puerica, we know thestatistics but that’s pretty much all we hear about our health and out of the contextof this conversation it is stigmatizing. so learning that when we are including lgbtqyouth intentionally in our programs, be open to expanding that conversation. <br />
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and the last thing is the no right or wrong. i get that being an ally is hard. we’re all allies depending on our proximityto specific communities and a lot of times we don’t want to say the wrong thing, sowe don’t say anything. sometimes we don’t want to make the wrongdecision so we don’t make a decision. but not saying something and not making adecision is doing something. not saying something is saying something andnot making a decision is making a decision. so like it’s about suspending the no rightor wrong and we make mistakes, but we can atone for that, and we can recreate the relationshipwith the young people. <br />
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so a lot of it is about being courageous andi love that that’s the theme that you all provided for us. getting right or wrong is a new way of beingcourageous. in your opinion, i’m going to start withlaura and i’m going to come down this way. how do you think homophobia and racism impactsthe decisions that young people make in relation to their sexual health? laura: well, as i was saying before the factthat they were nodding, that lgbtq+ people of color are not included in the conversation,that just completely leaves people feeling out and feeling like, you know, they are notnormal. <br />
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and we’re already going through a lot duringthose years. you know i’m still trying to figure myselfout and then there’s this other wave of judgement that comes from people that arelooking at me and you know, it’s like when i walk into a room i have to make myself availablefor people and i have to justify who i am because if not people aren’t going to takeme seriously and they’re going to put labels on me. and i think the fact that most of the time,you know, when people that are not people of color come into a room they’re not gettingquestioned about their sexuality and their background. <br />
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they’re not being asked “oh where areyou from?†or that kind of thing, they’re not, and that’s not fair. i think we need to provide a space for peopleof color and lgbtq+ people of color to be able to share their stories and those whohave privilege need to listen first. then help those people out in anyway that they can just using their own privilege becauseif you just sit there and not do anything and just not say anything because you’reafraid of saying the wrong thing, that’s not going to do anything, you know. we have to get rid of those subconscious,homophobic, elitist and racist tendencies <br />
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and learn to appreciate other people thatcome from different backgrounds and not put labels on them. lexus: i think that racism and homophobiaimpact our communities in a couple of ways. in terms of racism, historically speakingthe powers that be have never been very interested in people of color procreating. so within reproductive health movements, eventhat has been under laid with racist intentions of predominantly communities of color, womenof color being sterilized and they don’t know or being steered toward certain contraceptivemethods without being fully informed of their risks and options because of the pre-assumptionbased on their skin color and based on what <br />
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class demographic people think they’re inand what they could afford rather than at least providing those options. and so, when you’re going into a systemthat already isn’t interested in you having access to reproductive health or procreatingor being able to attain as many resources as possible, it creates an aversion to thehealthcare system. large portions of my community don’t goto doctors because they either anticipate and have experienced racist of homophobictreatment. i’ve gone to a gynecologist before and leftthat appointment and she said she was going to pray for me. <br />
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and i’m here for my sexual health, not foryou to draw assumptions based on once i now express there are within the homophobic. with the lgbtq+ folks, there’s assumptionsof promiscuity because all of the sudden i say i’m not straight and then i say thati’m bisexual, pansexual, you assume that me saying that i am attracted to folks ofall gender presentations means that i am having sex with so many people of all of these differentgender presentations. me saying that i’m attracted to them doesnot automatically mean that i’m being more promiscuous, but because of that you encourageme to do this treatment instead or you assume certain things about me that make you askme questions a certain way as if you already <br />
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know what i’m doing in my personal sexuallife. so with stuff like that happening, when youngpeople of color go to providers, it makes them just avoid health and sexual health treatmentand care in the first place. and to know the histories behind why yourcommunities either when they go to these places have been sterilized or given treatments againsttheir will or that aren’t good for their bodies and they don’t know or people explicitlysay things that are racist or homophobic to you when you go there, you don’t want togo there. and then it just leads to more issues downthe line because you’re not getting the care that you receive. <br />
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so that’s what i see as commonly how racismand homophobia effect our communities. louis: okay cydney and jorian because we wantto leave some time for q&a. who or what was a supportive, what was a supportivemechanism for providing support in those formidable years around sexual health. cydney: surrounding sexual health it was specificallythe youth center in eastern market because it was a space where i could be myself andask the questions that i had. and also interacting with people who werea few years older than me and at least at that time looked like me, that understoodwhat experiences i was going through and was supportive of the choices that i made andgave me the education that i needed. <br />
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i actually really want to answer that previousquestion. black bodies are being killed every singleday. and the messages that we receive is that thesociety we live in, they don’t value our bodies. so at what point, where are we going to getthe message that our bodies, our health matters. okay, we’re not gonna get it from tv, we’renot gonna get it from cnn. so let’s get it from the place where weget our primary care. our primary care physician probably doesn’tcare either because there’s data showing that most primary care providers don’t takewhat people of color say seriously because <br />
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of this belief that we are exaggerating orwhat we’re experiencing is not real, so you’re in the doctor, you’re trying totell the doctor what’s wrong and the doctor’s like this is not true. especially in communities, especially in themental health areas, you know you have people who are describing legitimate instances ofracism and discrimination and the doctor’s just like, “okay, you’re paranoid. you know, we’re going to diagnose you withparanoid schizophrenia because these systems are effecting you in such a way that theydon’t understand. so for me, when i think about that, this systemdoes not only does it not value by body, it <br />
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doesn’t value what i say. so how, why should i value it, the messagesthat i’m receiving, why should i value my health if no one outside of , excuse my language,seems to give a damn. so lgbtq youth of color don’t want to talkto nobody about this! we’re not going to go to our teachers becauseif our teachers don’t look like us, they don’t know what’s going on with us. if our teachers aren’t saying anything aboutwhat’s going on in the media, they don’t care. if our administrators or our funders aren’tdoing anything regarding what’s happening <br />
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in our existence, that doesn’t matter. so why would we go to someone who obviouslydoesn’t seem to value our existence, how am i able to relate that to my partner sincewe’re getting the same messages. our bodies don’t matter. so how do i let you know that my body is important,this is how i want it to be honored. i’m not getting that message anywhere else,how do i know to communicate that to somebody in an intimate setting. those are the messages that we are receiving. and homophobia, now what i’m doing is wrong,blatantly wrong on multiple levels, again <br />
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how do i communicate to someone that thisexperience i want to have is special because of this because i am special. jorian: okay. louis: so who was supportive to you duringyour formative years? jorian: we can talk about racism and homophobiaall day long so i’m going to skip that question. my main supporter at my coming out as a gay,hispanic, puerto rican man also being diagnosed with hiv was my father. that being said, growing up in a jehovah’switness household, it speaks for itself. as a man, who grew up in puerto rico on afarm, going to church every sunday, or not <br />
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the church, right, going to hall every sunday,every tuesday, every saturday, he was a man of the word. growing up, my dad put this idea in me andmy brother’s, this idea in our head that he didn’t want gay kids, he did not wantgay sons. but on july 11th, three years ago when i wasdiagnosed with hiv, my dad put all his pride aside. and i called, when i was diagnosed, i calledboth my parents on the phone, my mom first because she’s the emotional… you knowwhen you have parents you have one when you can go to and talk to the other and you knowyour mom is the lenient one sometimes and <br />
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your dad is the tough one, well in this case,my mom is more the emotional supporter. i can go to her about anything, i can cryto her about anything and she’ll be like, “well meha why you crying for?†and i’llbe like “but i loved him…â€, “ah but there are other fishes in the sea, get overit.†i’m like, “whatever, you’re on yourthird marriage anyway.†haha… shhhhh! but my dad was the, my dad has always beenthe tough guy. you know, my dad’s like 5’10†big brutemuscle guy and he was always a stickler, like this this what you’re not going to do. <br />
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but when i called him crying, he was asking“what’s wrong? what’s going on?†and i was like, “well dad†and i’m cryingmy eyes out and i have hiv. first thing out of his mouth was, “i’mcoming out there.†he came out and i sense that he put all thatpride and ego aside and was like, “yo, you’re my son. i want you happy and i want you healthy.†he understood that i was gay, he got overthe fact that i was gay, cause at that point he was able to make gay jokes and tell methat all i can drink is fruity drinks because <br />
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i’m gay. but mind you i like a long island, i keepit real with you, throw in a shot of fireball keep it going i want to have some hair onmy chest. but that it is where my dad was getting to,he was getting to the point of making jokes with me, that’s what i wanted. but at that point when i told him i was hivpositive, he was like, “bah, you’re my son. this is what we’re going to do, this iswhat i’m going to do. so he was my biggest supporter, today he’smy biggest supporter. <br />
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he calls me every other day and asking meif i’m happy because all he cares about is my happiness, because you know as a father,as a supporter, they want to ask questions. my dad went beyond that and educated himselfwell enough that to know what i can and cannot do. he educates me on a daily basis, he’ll belike, “do you have a cat?†“no†“good, don’t have a cat†i’mlike, “why?â€, he’s like “because there’s some thing, there’s some hormones in theirfeces and you can’t be around them.†“okay, and? i’m at work, what’s up?†<br />
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but he wants my wellbeing, he wants to knowif i’m happy, that’s all he cares about. he’s like no call me, but i’m like dadevery time i call you, you don’t answer your phone. well i’m sleeping. well how am i supposed to get ahold of you? so it’s like, he, i love my dad, and i wishmy dad was living in philadelphia, but he’s living in arizona now, he’s happier, hedon’t like the cold, you know, you suck, because i don’t have you here, but he’slike well you know come out and visit here and i’m like, it’s too hot, its’ like120 degrees. <br />
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i can’t be melting, mmm mmm i’m sorry. i’m a hairy guy, i’m sorry, i got mammothhair on me, i sweat too much. but overall i love my dad, my dad is my biggest,biggest, biggest supporter i have ever had in my entire life. louis: so before we open it up for questions,because i’m sure folks want to pick these beautiful brains, i just want to drive homethe point that a lot of what we’ve been covering has been pretty much expanding theconversation around sex ed. and we are at the tipping point where we reallyhave to talk about black and brown bodies in a way that is intentional, affirming andthat honors young people, specifically young <br />
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lgbtq people as holistic beings. they’re not compartmentalized. i know that there is this myth, especiallyin this country, that people do not value education in that way. i hope that what you’ve heard today hasshifted that, that young people do love structure, right? but they also looking to the adults that theyspend the most time with to provide them with information that can literally save theirlives. the other point is and with jorian’s storyis that a lot of parents may not have the <br />
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tools in supporting queer young people areoften branded homophobic, right? and a lot of our work has not really beenbased, well for me, a lot of the agencies that i work with, family reunification hasnot been at the center of the work. and when it comes to lgbtq youth it’s always“come here, we won’t tell anybody. we won’t tell your parents.†we cannot provide support without honoringfamily. and i firmly believe that when given the opportunityfamilies, teachers, administration will show up when provided the opportunity. and jorian’s story spoke to that. <br />
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had a father who struggled with his identity,was clear about what a man should be and what the responsibility was, but when it matterthe most, those ideals were secondary to jorian’s health. so parents, administration who may be challengingat times and while we want to hold them accountable and really be clear about our expectations,we also want to provide some grace because we’re not going to achieve what we needto achieve by tearing each other apart. and that sounds really clichã©, but the reasonwhy we need as many warriors as we do, is so that some of us can take a break and thensomeone else picks up the baton. so there are mics around and if you have questionjust step to the mic and if you have a specific <br />
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question for a specific youth, just pointout or just say their name and i’m sure they’ll be ready to answer their questions. lexus: louis, as people gather to the miccan i say one point? i think that in terms of also supporting young,oh there is someone at the mic right now, but, to this point of see something, say something,to support what cydney said, these students, these lgbtq youth of color are coming intoyour classrooms hearing what is going in with the world around them, and it is not realisticfor you to act as if those things are not happening. the experiences that they are seeing withinthe media of state violence, is that their <br />
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bodies aren’t mattering, they are feelinglike their black and brown bodies don’t matter, they are feeling like their queerlives do not matter when black trans women are being killed at such an excessive rate,they are feeling like their bodies don’t matter and when we come into classrooms andeducators don’t bring those conversations into the classroom, we’re acting as if thosethings aren’t happening, and as if it’s not hurting them and not existing, part ofyour ally-ship i think sometimes is to bring that into the classroom and bring up at thevery least ask if it’s something they have thoughts about and feelings about and if they’dlike to address and discuss because it does not help them when you’re so uncomfortableor unsure if people want to bring it up that <br />
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you only bring it up when someone’s breakingdown crying in your classroom. i feel like part of your ally-ship is to knowthat these things are going on, know that they’re effecting them and bring it to thetable to have conversations and stop acting like they’re not because in terms of theirlives and in terms of these issues, sexual health and wellness, these other things thatare going on in the world around them are effecting them just as well and we’re notbeing honest if we’re not acknowledging that and we’re not going to get anywhereto true ally-ship if you’re not going to put that out there to have uncomfortable conversationbecause we all see these things happening and to ignore it is again to ignore theirexperiences. <br />
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louis: i can’t even say. so if you’re near the mic over there, youcan go. audience member: thank you so much, hi myname is shelley montgomery barth and i am from wyoming and you’re all amazing so thankyou so much for being here today. what i think i heard you saying was that lgbt+plus young people of color need to be taught about sex by people who like them that arenot much older than them, i also heard you say that it’s really important that, youreally need mentors that look like you and who are successful who are from the lgbt+community. my question for you is what can old whitelgbt+ people to support youth of color? <br />
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lexus: i have a thought, so i think what youcan best do is use your privilege to the benefit of those communities so when you recognizethat this is an identity that you don’t carry and in a space in which you won’tbe able to express something that makes them feel like they are being heard or validated,that support that they need. i think the best thing that you could do istry to connect people with those that they would be able to share those experiences with. i think this comes to the part where you useyour resources to reach out to whatever folks you know, if there are organizations thatpertain to the types of work that you need help with or the identities that they carryto see if you can connect with someone and <br />
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bring them in to answer what you don’t know. so i think in that regard, you can best helpby using your privilege to make the space accessible and bring in and connect them tothe people that they would need to help them. louis: is there one more person over there? and then we’ll come back and come over hereand go over there. audience member: i’m emma schwartz fromthe university of california davis and i wanted to thank all of the panel and in particularthe one of you who was able to bring the issue of abortion to this conversation which isnot usually something that the office of adolescent health talks about because of the demand whichtakes it out of our vocabulary. <br />
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but i was hoping maybe we could have a littlebit more in terms of what it would be helpful for you to learn about what is actually oneof the most common medical procedures that women in this country undergo. what would be helpful for young people tolearn? lexus: so i’m working on the 1 in 3 campaignwith advocates for youth this summer which centers around the fact that 1 in 3 womenwill experience an abortion in their lifetime. i think one of the most helpful things thatcould be done, given the technicality of what can and cannot be said within education andeducator spaces to again connect them to the spaces where they could have that informationavailable, providing local clinic or pharmacy <br />
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information, sending them to the 1 in 3 website,and sharing with them… subverting the system in a way to share withthem the websites where they can then go to find that information if you unfortunatelyare not in a position to explicitly share that information. laura: even just talking about it, why doesit have to be such a taboo? i have two family members that had an abortionand we never talk about it. and you can’t just tell me about that andthen not tell me, okay “how was it? how do you feel?†i think it starts by having people who havehad abortions talk about it and making it <br />
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a safe space for those people and gettingrid of the stigma so we can actually provide those resources for people our age to havein schools and community centers, websites. louis: alright we have about 5 minutes sowe’ll take a question over here and then move over here. audience member: i’m tom aloisi from thestate of vermont and it’s never 120 degrees there so come visit any time, i’ve very(inaudible). i’ve loved hearing from you, but we’veheard four stories with four different educational experiences. i want to hear from a lot of folks who mightnot be as brave as you are to get in front <br />
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of 700 people and tell your story. does anyone know either on the panel or inthe room of a good survey tool to use to get the same kind of stories, maybe anonymously,that we could survey recent high school graduates that we could say, what was your sex ed experiencelike, what would you have done differently, all this kind of stuff. cydney: well, one thing that youth researchcreated this year was the my story out loud campaign. other panelists: wooo hooo! cydney: yeah! <br />
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its goal was to capture the stories of queerstudents of color, across the nation about their experiences in education, in sexualhealth education. we kind of focused on college students, butis the link still live? yes, so there is a link, it’s still active,our coordinator’s actually right there looking all wonderful. we have social media, we have tumblr, twitter,#mystoryoutloud, if you google it the website will come up with all of that. you’re welcome. louis: we’ll move over here. <br />
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audience member: good afternoon, my name isaj king, i’m with atlanta youth rec center, hi cydney. first off i just want to say thank you guysbecause it was a fantastic panel. and i know that i learned a lot personally. i think that with our current society, especiallyour youth is constantly changing and regressing and we are getting a little bit more progressivewhen it comes to the lgbt+ community just as a whole in the nation so in 2016 movingforward, what you feel would be effective lgbt+ programming for youth that hasn’tbeen implemented yet? jorian: repeat the question? <br />
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audience member: sure, so there’s a lotof lgbt+ youth centers across the nation, there’s already been doing a lot of greatwork, right. but with the, a lot of transitions have beenhappening, technology is ever changing, so in 2016 from your personal communities, yourpersonal experiences, what do you feel would be effective programming for our lgbt peoplethat you would like to see in centers today, especially around sexual health? jorian: one thing i can say if i take thatquestion is a campaign that we’re doing right now, it’s called positivo, i’m wantingto just say something about positivo, it talks about how my status change is live. <br />
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that might sound a little off, but if youthink about from a different perspective, it’s about i’m going around telling mystory for a specific reason, and i’m doing that so that people can take that, sit backand be like “oh, i did not know, tell me more.†it’s a catch. so what we’re working on right now is acampaign called positivo and we’re shedding light into the community, we’re changingthat word positivo which means positive and we’re changing it from a negative idea toa “positive idea,†quote/unquote. we’re trying to tell people in a communitythat being positive is not a bad thing anymore, <br />
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we’re in 2016 we have technology, we havemedicine, we have cocktail regiments on a daily basis that people can take once theyare diagnosed. and it’s more so telling people that it’speople of color or that are hiv positive or hiv negative that it doesn’t change anything. we still take care of our families, we stillgo to work on an everyday basis, we still take our medicine on an everyday basis. it doesn’t change anything. being positive does not change anything ina person’s life. it just changes your daily habit from goingfrom not taking a pill to taking a pill every <br />
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day. that’s the only change that’s ever goingto happen unless you want to get technical and be like “well you’re going to be onthis diet… you can’t eat this… you can’t do this…you gotta eat healthy.†listen, i’m fat, i’ll be straight up honestwith you. i am fat, i still take medicine every dayand i look and i learned a lot about myself when i got diagnosed with hiv. that campaign helped me a lot. it changed all my insecurities that what iused to look like and what i felt like to <br />
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a better perspective of like i’m body positive. i am fat-u-lous. i like to keep it that way. but with positivo we do that, we do that forthe community can see that it’s not a bad thing anymore. so that’s what we’re working on rightnow and we’re trying to get more people to get on it so you can look it up on positivoor go to google and galaei.org and learn more about it and read more about it because that’sthe organization i work for and y’know hashtag louis: alright so our time is up, please givethese amazing warriors a great round of applause. <br />
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thank you again for sharing time and spacewith us. take what you’ve learned and share it withthe community. do not keep this conversation in the room,take it outside this room and into your classrooms. thank you very much. </div>
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lLms-AIfE6A?rel=0" width="560"></iframe>Diana.Lhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957689766549596146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892821641100309695.post-9471696602363438302017-04-26T17:26:00.000-07:002017-04-26T17:26:13.767-07:00sex education curriculum<img src="" height="500" width="500"><br /><br /><div align="justify"><p>warning:this presentation contains materialthat may be ofensive it is not recomended for young peopleor children to view "you're teaching my child what?" sex education:a psychologist calls foul </p><br /><p>sex education curriculum, miriam grossman md26 june 2012 hi, i'm bob mccoskrieof national director family first new zealand. doctor miriam grossmanis a you is </p><br /><p>psychiatrist specializingin at least and in child psychiatry. she recently came tonew zealand to speak at the annual new zealand forum on thefamily and during that time she spoke to agroup of auckland principles and boards of trusteesand teachers about the sex educationcurriculum and who consumes about it. thank you for taking the time to watchwho presentation. now his doctor miriam grossman. </p><br /><p>thank you, bob. when i graduatedfrom medical school i took in oath. i stood up i raised my right hand and i swore to prevent disease whenever i could. at that moment i believe that the battlesthat way ahead of me </p><br /><p>would be against cancer,heart disease and emotional disorders but after two decades and thousands hours withyoung patient in distress i've discovered that mymost challenging fight is not against dangerousdiseases but against dangerous ideas. i'm referring to ideasthat are central to what i'm going to callthe sex ed-industry. </p><br /><p>this industry beganin the united states and like many ill-conceivednotion from america it's been quite successfullyexported to the rest of the world. at the helmof the sex ed-industry here or organizationslike family-planning and rainbow youth for my review of the websites and other material that these groups havecreated for new zealand youth i see that the approach that i'mso familiar with from the state </p><br /><p>has been duplicatedin your country. now as a physiciani have one objective to keep peopleout of the offices of doctors and therapist. i'm going to demonstrate you today how this sex ed-industry make my job more difficult and i know that that's a strongstatement to make but the priority grouplike family planning </p><br /><p>is not sexual health. it is sexual freedom. the goal of these governmentfunded organisations is for student to be open to just about any sexual activity children are told its sexuality extend from cradle to grave. early sexual activity </p><br /><p>with multiple partnersis assumed and high-risk behaviors are normalized and a attitude of openness an adventure is celebrated. now these, of course, are the very behaviors that fuel theepidemics of genital infections,unwanted pregnancies, abortion and emotional distress whether or not a condom is used. </p><br /><p>young people who practicethe lifestyle endorsed by these groupshave more doctors appointment not less. and that is so fora simple reason: when sexual freedom is the priority when young people are given the okay to become sexually activeinto explore and experiment with multiple partnersthey do just that back and their sexual health suffers. </p><br /><p>you don't need a phdin public health to understand thisall you need is common sense. now these problems arenot abstractions to me. i'm reporting to you from the front line over the past 25 years i seen steady stream of people come through my office who were suffering from the sexualdecisions that they had made. their suffering was100 percent </p><br /><p>avoidable. to make matters worse therewasn't much i could do for them because it was after the fact. now i'm not speaking aboutan occasional patient i'm not even speakingabout a few dozen patients i'm saying that i havelost count have the number patientthat i've seen most of them girls and young women whohave been diagnosed with a sexually transmittedinfection or were terrified </p><br /><p>that they could have hiv or they were simplyconfused and upset after hooking upwith a guy few times developing feelings for that guy and then realizing thatemotional attachment with the last thing that he wanted. and often when i explainto these student the science that you'reabout to hear tonight she say...that makes so much sense </p><br /><p>why didn't i know that widening anybody tell me that well these good questionand i began to wonder. if i read years ago in my medical journal about for example white girls are so vulnerable to at stis or about the biochemistry ofattachment which is how we arewired to emotionally connect with someone that were intimatewith. </p><br /><p>i hadn't this sciencereached my patient i mean they knew all about diet,heart disease osteoporosis, breast cancer. they knew about a wholerange of health issues so why this ignorant about theconsequences at intimate behavior. these questions and othersled me to write the book "unprotected. each chapter describesa patient of mine </p><br /><p>and how they were harmedby the sexual ideologies and omission of biologicaltruths in sex education. the students that i wroteabout in this book made a lasting impressionon me they turned me into in activist and it's because of themthat i'm here today. after "unprotected"i went deeper into what hadin sex education </p><br /><p>especially the web sites and booksrecommended to adolescence as a physician and a parent i couldn't believewhat i had seen and that's why my second book with called"you're teaching my child what?" so for the past seven yearsapproximately i've been study in sexeducation how it began and what it is now. i was astonished to realize that sexeducation </p><br /><p>is not primarily concerned withpreventing disease. rather it a social movement it`s goal is to change society that was the casefifty years ago when it beganand it still the case now. by all social movementssex education is not based on how the world is it's based on how the worldshould be it's based on a dream. </p><br /><p>a vision of the perfect world, in this world there areno substantial differences between male and female. if such differences exist they are not inbornthey are not eternal they are due to forcesin society against which we'reobligated struggle. in this ideal world no particular lifestyle </p><br /><p>is healthier than another. chlamydia, herpes, hiv these infect people in a random manner they are equalopportunity disease in this world an abortionis like a tonsillectomy. this vision appeals to manypeople because after all why should girlspay a higher price for promiscuity than guys? that's sexist. </p><br /><p>it's not fair. why should certain sexualencounters be more dangerous than others. that's homophobicthat's also not fair this is a made-up world,it doesn't exist in the real world the differencesbetween male and female are vast and permanent. one of these differencesis that girls have unique biologicalsensitivities </p><br /><p>and early sexual behavior indanger them more than it does boys. that's not sexist, that somethingthat is seen under a microscope. furthermore regarding sexuallytransmitted infection, certain behaviors and lifestyles are 100% risk-free and others are treacherous. in the real world </p><br /><p>an abortion is devastatingfor some men and some women. it's a wound they carry withthem for their entire lifes. these are indisputable facts there's no debating them. but when the fact includingthe biological fact challenge the sex educators visionof a perfect world they are omittedfrom sex education. if what seen under the microscope threatens their dreamfor society </p><br /><p>it doesn't exist. that's why i contend that due to this ideology- young people especially young women arebeing sacrificed on the altar of politicalcorrectness. we all did testpolitical correctness but in my profession in the medical profession wheninformation is withheld if the consequences of abortionfor example are whitewashed, </p><br /><p>if a particular sexual actis discuss in a casual way, without waiving any red flags lives are endangered. so the goal is to change society in create a world withoutsexual taboos and restriction. each individualregardless if age make his or her sexual choices, each person decideshow much risk he or she is willing to take, </p><br /><p>and no judging is allowed. these ideas are atthe core of modern sex education or as it's called sometimesexuality education. they are very dangers ideas. three groups pay the highest price when biological truthscannot be told and cradle to grave sexual freedom is celebrate. </p><br /><p>girls, women and men who havefax with other man. please keep in mind that educators describedin materials, accurate, ideologically neutral and in the interestthe students well-being. they claim to provideyour childrens, your students with all they need to know to makeinformed choices and they insist that they areon the same page as parents </p><br /><p>now i know that there's lot variationfrom one school to the next in what students are talk, but i think it's importantfor all of you to know that when i reviewedthe most popular website and pamphlets created foryoung new zealand people by family planningand rainbow youth i found that they arenot medically accurate they are not ideologicallyneutral and they do not provide students withall they need to know </p><br /><p>i suspect also that what mostteens hear at home here at home is very different, different from what thesegroups are telling them. so these authorities promise one thingand do another. where i come from that's calleda hoax. and i know that's a seriouscharge to make </p><br /><p>but i promise you it's the resultof years research and careful deliberation. so what i'm going to do now is lay out the evidencethat supports my argument. i'm i must warnyou like bob did that i'm about to presentsome disturbing information and i apologize in advance but you must see at, </p><br /><p>because this iswith being recommended to your student. so i'm gonna show you someof the troubling things that young people are talk by groups like family planning and rainbow youthas well aid foundation and then i'll explain the sciencethat's omitted from their message. first, the claim that'smade by these groups that they are on thesame page is parent. </p><br /><p>almost 70% of new zealandparents believe the teen should be encouragedto delay sex at least until after high school and in public forums, in material that's writtenfor parents and policymakers the sex at this industryinsist they have the same goal. for example,your ministry education sex ed guide for principles,boards of trustees, and teachers says "a key message </p><br /><p>"within our sexualityeducation programme "is the need to delay thestart sexual activity." and in the new zealand herald became out a few days ago there was an articleabout my visit here and there was a response from family planning chief executive,jackie edmond. and he saidto the new zealand herald "we support </p><br /><p>"telling people to have lovingcaring relationships "and young people to delay "having sexual onset." that sounds very good that sounds like what we want to hear but look at this familyplanning pamphlet for teens"called "your choice". it says "only you shouldcontrol your sex life. </p><br /><p>"make sure it's your choice if,or when, "you sleep with someone. "make sure you're really ready." "only you knowwhen it is right for you." and from another oneat their parents with it's called"questions and answers" to all those interesting question aboutgrowing "there is no 'right' ageto have sex. "the age someone choosesto have sex "is different for everyone. </p><br /><p>"it needs to be when it feelsright for that individual person." another a website called"the word.org" that family planning links to "before you have sexfor the first time, "there are definitely a fewthings that need to be discussed." "are we ready? "how comfortabledo we both feel "about becoming intimatewith each other?" "contraception what optionswork best for you </p><br /><p>"remember,it's best to use condoms "and lube andcontraception until "until you were in a longterm committed relationship." now i've underlined thatbecause it implies that you may not be in a long termcommitted relationship. so kids are told"it's up to you" there is no right age make sure you talkabout contraception </p><br /><p>and make sureyou feel ready. now some teens may ask how do i know when i feel ready? so here's some more guidance from family planning. i think it read it is the quotefrom another team. "i think you're ready to havesex if you feel it's righ. "if you like here alittle voices... you know, "don't do it,don't do it </p><br /><p>"you should hold off. "but you know,if it's like "yeah i'm ready, then ok." now mind you accordingto this advice you could have a13-year-old girl who meet a 16-year-old boy and after afew days if she hears littlevoices saying i'm ready i'm ready, do it, do it, so just use a condom, </p><br /><p>according to family planning,it's just fine. so this is certainly not encouraging kids todelay sexual activity quite the opposite.and you know i challenged jackie edmond to a debate or really anyone from anyof these organizations. we had the opportunityfor a radio debate, but no one has stepped up yetto do that unfortunately. now lets look at the claimsmade by sex educators </p><br /><p>the parents should bethe primary educators of their children. this is from anotherpamphlet for parent "parents and caregivers arethe first and most important "sexuality educatorsof their children. "sex education oughtto be taught at home." now this implies that whatthe sex educators do with is basically build onthe parent message right implies that educators andparents are on the same page </p><br /><p>but i'd argue that that's notat all the case, for example, look at this site to whichfamily planning refers to it. "blowjobsmouths are soft and warm "which makes having your penissucked feel really good..." in fact, sex edand organizations introduce studentsto high-risk behaviors, discussing them as acceptablehealthy option but these are activities that mostparents don't want their childrento even hear about. </p><br /><p>this is from the website "curious". i'm gonna let youread this for yourself. "be happy with you're a**you have probably been told... "that your a** is a dirty placeand shouldn't be touched. "this is silly. "people should be happy withall parts of their bodies..." "it is true that you get ridof waste out of your anus, "but that`s not the onlything that it's good for. "you p**s out your penis, </p><br /><p>"but you can do more thingswith your c**k that that." "there are some men who only enjoybeing the 'top' (doing the f**king) "and some men who only enjoybeing the bottom (getting f**ked). "but most like it both ways. "it's good taking turnsat being top and bottom." "your anus is only dirtywhen it hasn't been cleaned, "just like any otherpart of your body..." there many other examplesfrom this and other website that family-planning links to. </p><br /><p>so face to said that, this all comes froma certain worldview a vision of sexualityin which the focus like i said is not on health, but are being open and acceptingand free of judgement. of course what missing hereis the biology that certain formsof sexual expression are much higher risk than others with or without condoms </p><br /><p>and the notion that all lifestyles are equal in terms of healthis a dangerous one. another one of thosedangerous ideas that i referred to lateri mean earlier. so the priority is sexual license not health and when sexual license orsexual freedom reigns sexual health is going to suffer. the claim next of beingmedically accurate </p><br /><p>in science based, i'm going to beginwith the fact that girls are biologicallymore vulnerable to infection than boys and they're not beinginformed of that. for example regarding the humanpapillomavirus hpv virusand that's a picture of it it's actually a lot smaller than that. why does the humanpapillomavirus </p><br /><p>infect girls so easily? in the states we have 25% of all teen girls are infected with eitherthis mostly this virus and also the herpes virus. one in four teen. why is so easy for this virusto infect girls? it's because of theirimmature cervix. the cervix is the entranceto the uterus and </p><br /><p>when you're looking at hereon the left side is the photo above be cervix itself, the center area is called the transformation zone and it is circled with the yellowmarking and on the right side ofthe slide you see a diagram. the diagram indicate that the area in the centerof the cervix their is only covered byone layer of cells. </p><br /><p>the right part of that diagramshows one layer of cells. and this solitary layeris very easy for virusesand bacteria to penetrate it. as girl gets older and she moves into her later teens and her early twenties,this vulnerable area become thicker and tougher as shown in on the otherside of that diagram but are what you see thereon one side </p><br /><p>is many levels,many layers of cells and that's with the mature cervix is covered withand that is clearly understandably more difficultif not impossible for viruses andbacteria to penetrate. so as a girl gets older with each year that passes she's building her own biological protection,you could call it </p><br /><p>like a shieldso it's harder for her to be infected. there are... let me show you this. so this is a photograph ofthe mature cervix looks like it's smooth and pinkin those other if you look at itmicroscopically many many layers of cells and then here isthe immature cervix </p><br /><p>and that central orange areais the zone that only covered by one cell and so easily infected. and we've have foundthe research has shown that there are tooenvironmental factors that can delay the maturingof the cervix. remember what you wantis for to mature. one factor is smokingwhen girls smoke cigarettes her cervix matures moreslowly yhe other factor iswhen they're on birth control pill. </p><br /><p>the hormones in the pillcan prevent the...this area from shrinking. so when we put young girls on birthcontrol pill we may actuallybe inadvertently increasing hervulnerability to infections. so i like to call these self the cover the cervixthe one layer of cell politically incorrect cell because boys don't have them in theirreproductive system </p><br /><p>and... you know this just meansthat boys and girls are art certainly different this is one of manyways that they are. so if the biology not only morality says in traditional valuesand family first says wait.its also biology that said it's best to wait. biology of says girls are morevulnerable </p><br /><p>them boyand they need to know that. another interesting thing, i can spend too muchtime on it because... i have to get to somany other things but another reason whyeasy to infect a young woman is that theirtimes in her cycles when her immune system is weaker in the middle of hercycle of relation is when arm she's morevulnerable to infection </p><br /><p>because your body won'tfight easily. so and this is well-known this is you know they've beenknown actually for decades that sexuallytransmitted diseases pose a severe threat towomen's health and fertility, biological factors place women atgreater risk than men and this is unlikely to change even if your counselfor civil liberties </p><br /><p>threatened a loss. can anyone think that was funny? but the science about girl'svulnerability is omitted sex education and all the whilethey claim to be famine advancing the welfare of young women. it's totally upside down the immature cervixshould be at the front and center for anyone teaching science-based sexeducation. </p><br /><p>real feminism protectgirls and women. a few more thing things aboutpapillomavirus is that the emotional consequences areoften whitewashed and i have a study herefrom new zealand showing the 76% of patients experienced depression andanger at their initial diagnosis of human papillomavirus and for one-third of thesethe feelings persisted for years now i'll just remind you that this viruscan cause </p><br /><p>both genital wart and... in rare cases cervicalcancer and other cancers. but overall sex education in my country,in your country... whitewashes. what it's like for peoplewhen they find out that they have this virus,for which there is no cure, there are treatments available but the woonds often return. </p><br /><p>now... i don't want to get too graphicand i know that you... just had dinneror you're about have tea you just had teaor we're about to have tea so i won't get graphicbut to enter a relationship knowing that it anytimeyou could have an outbreak of wounds or blisterson your genitals it's hard to feel beautiful it's hard to feel attractive </p><br /><p>when you're diseased. so this is important stuff. now another big thing thatis missing from sex education is that the humanpapillomavirus can be transmitted throughoral sex into the mouth and then it stays dormantin the mouth and throat,and years later it can cause throat cancer i also just learnedthis last week </p><br /><p>that certain strainsof the human papillomavirus are associated withincreased heart disease they think that the virusinactivates a gene that regulates heart disease. anyway there's so many thingsthat we don't know about this we shouldn't just say like this fellow that interviewedme at the... herald...the new zealand... the new zealand heraldso... </p><br /><p>we were talking about papillomavirusand he said... will everyone's gets thatand everyone's gonna get that in... i'd said, what?what are you talking about? he said, you know... he demeaned reallydidn't want to hear about it but the truth is that noteveryone has this virus and many peoplemanaged to escape it and that is the ideal that we should bepresenting to our student not that everyone get this. </p><br /><p>so i was saying that boys,getting back to the cervix and the the ones cell layer the boys don't have this area vulnerability area of honor ability in theirreproductive system but they do have it in there gi system,there gastrointestinal system test stem and this is one of manyreasons why anal intercourse is so very dangerousand... this is one of those difficultsubject you need to know thoughthat kids are being talked </p><br /><p>that there are threetypes sexual intercourse vaginal, oral and anal and arm they do not however learnedthat even with a condom anal intercourse isa high-risk activity and this again is basednot on morality but on biologyand... the vagina has these differentproperties it has a low phwhich inactivates the hiv's particle </p><br /><p>the mucus has certain proteins that fired hiv the lining is thickand stretching because the vagina obviously is a birth canal on it and it's made to delivera big ten-pound baby. so the vagina is constructed in a completelydifferent way from the rectum which is made differently and out also the rectum i discoveredin my research has a kind a cell, called m cell, and those celli write about it in my book they actually take the... </p><br /><p>they take hiv... and deliver it right into the lymphaticsystem which is where wants to getto infect the person. so m cells are very dangerousand you don't have them in the vagina so these are some other reasons why for the transmissionof hiv anal intercourse is at least twenty to thirty times moredangerous than vaginal intercourse now i like to givestudent and my patients the same advicethat a friend of mine </p><br /><p>arm name is john potterat gave to his kid. john for thirty yearswas the director of all the std and aids programs in a city calledcolorado springs and he's offer about 200publications about std's. so he's really an expert. before his kidsbecame sexually active he told them,"the anus is an exit, not an entry." </p><br /><p>"this is not the biblehe told them "this is science." "nature put a tight sphincter, "a muscle to stay closed "at the entrance up the anusfor a reason "keep out." few ovis are experts,like my friend john, but all kid need to hear his however they won't behearing it from the people </p><br /><p>over at family-planningor rainbow youth or even from your ministryof health. earlier today bob showed mesome pamphlets that, i guess came from one other schools and they were writtenby the ministry of health and they did not providethis warning to students. the real question here is why promote the idea that vaginal andanal intercourse are comparable? </p><br /><p>what is behind this notionof generic intercourse? what's behind itis false believe that male and femaleare the same and that their unionare equivalent. that's what they wantyour children to believe. the last thingthat i wanna tell, well, the next to last,that is omitted from sex-ed, is called the biochemistryof attachment and this is veryexciting science </p><br /><p>about human attachmentthrough sexuality. i'm gonna quickly tell you i story about a patient of minewho who i call kayla and she was having onenight stands or hookups. i worked many yearsin the student counseling center at a big universityso she was 18and she came to my office because she'd been unableto get to class for two weeks. </p><br /><p>she was drinking and smokingpot most of the night and sleeping during the day. kayla was vague about howshe'd fallen into this pattern but soon the discussionturned to david a guy who lived down the hall he was very niceand cute and they hung out with the samegroup of friends. one night they started kissing one thing led to another </p><br /><p>and they had sex. after this happened a few times k were discovered thatshe had feeling for him. "i can't stop thinkingabout him", she said to me "what's wrong with me?" kayla found that the moretime she spent with david the more time she needed. she wanted a relationshipwith him. but he told her,"no way". </p><br /><p>now kayla knew that guys don'tlike high maintenance girls. so if you hook up with himan act like it didn't matter that's what everyoneelse is able to do she thought,"why can't i?" but in fact kayla was alwayshoping to hear from david constantly waitingfor a text message and checking her email. she longed for some of connection some indication that shemeant something to him. </p><br /><p>people close to hernoticed that she was gettingirritable and moody and because she couldn'tconcentrate on her work or sleep wellshe began drink and smoke pot to help her relax. david was always around because he livedright down the hall and he was interestedin hooking up with her but not much else. </p><br /><p>things spiral downwards to a point where kaylareally with not herself. she was failing three subbject: she was abusing substancesevery night and when she was high,she would hook up with other guys i told kayla that i get her help she could stopsmoking and drinking and he was fine with that. then i advised herto stop all hooking up </p><br /><p>no kissingno sex, nothing. at least not for now,i told her. because she's too fragileemotionally. well,she just couldn't believe that. "no kissing?"she asked me. "i cant kiss any guy?" "kissing is an intimatebehaviour", i told her. "it has an effect on you." "how about trying itfor one week?" </p><br /><p>"can you agree to do that?" "ok", she said "but this is goingto mean a big change "of life style." "i'm going to needsomething to remind me." so there is a rubber bandon my desk one of those wide rubber band so i gave it to her and i told her to writeon the rubber band </p><br /><p>"no hooking up". i told her to put iton her wrist and keep it there until our nextappointment to would remind herabout our conversation were telling a patient to weara rubber band with advice on it is not something that i learnedin medical school nor was it any more than stop-gap solutionto this crisis but i considered her behavior </p><br /><p>an emergency because whetheror not she used a condom i knew that she could show up ather next appointment pregnant or infected with a sexually transmittedinfections. so i did whatever i couldto help her stop this meaning less encounters. she took the rubber band she wrote "no hooking up" on it, and she wore it. now what's wrongwith this picture? </p><br /><p>kayla was a bright girl in fact she was an honorstudent in high school. she knew very well what was and was not responsiblesexual activity in fact kayla and davidhad followed the guidelines for responsible sexual behavior that sex be consensual,non exploitative honest pleasurable andprotected. this was a listthat i got from a... </p><br /><p>website in the statewhere student sir... like a family-planning typewebsite for students. kayla and david encountersmet these criteria they follow the rulesso what went wrong? what went wrong is that like so many girlskayla was nine eave and misinformed she was completelyunaware that as a womanshe is vulnerabilities related to sexual behaviorthat david doesn't. </p><br /><p>what went wrong isthat she didn't realize sex is a serious matter a single encounter even with protection can change your life for ever. that's not sexistthat biology when kayla is with david her brain is floatedwith the 1mol oxytocin. this is a politicallyincorrect molecule. it challenges the belief </p><br /><p>the differencesbetween men and women are due to socialization it also challenges the ideathat sexual behavior can be easily separatedfrom emotional attachment. hormone is a moleculethe travels from one organ to another with a messagedepending on the context oxytocin carries different messages during labor it travels from the brainto the uterus with the message contract and push out the baby. </p><br /><p>during nursing it travels from the brainto the breast saying make milk available. it also travels within the brain with messages aboute emotionsand behaviors if you take virgin rat and you inject her with oxytocin and then put her in a cagewith another rats litter she will act toward that litter as if those babies are her own. </p><br /><p>so oxytocin carries a message create a bond create an emotional attachment. and what's importantfor young people to know is that this 1 mol is released duringintimate behaviour is well intercourse is not necessaryand need i say the condoms have no effect on the actions of this 1 mol. </p><br /><p>i'm not proposing that acasual sexual encounter causes a deep emotional bond such as what you seebetween a mother and child. of course not that's ridiculousbut i'm suggesting that girls must learn from their biology and understand that they are wirednot only to experience pleasure for a moment closeness andintimacy she is also wired to havean emotional reaction and i don't want to mislead you </p><br /><p>men also have one that promoteattachment and of course they develop deepbonds to their partners but remember men especially young man have a lot of testosterone and testosterone drive them to want to distribute their dna as far and its wide as possible. another difference between male andfemale is the estrogen the female hormoneramp up effective oxytocin </p><br /><p>and testosterone dampens it and very interesting, how, when is estrogenhighest in a female its right before she ovulate. so the way that we are if you wanna sayif you bilieve a creator, you can saythe way we were created or if you believe in evolution you can say,the way we've evolved </p><br /><p>but what everyone say, at the time in a woman cycle when she... when she has the potential... of creating a new wife in her is when she is most prime to connect to the person that she's with. now in addition to promotingfeelings of attachment oxytocin also affects our judgment </p><br /><p>and our risk-taking, it dampens the area of the brain that way with red flags when you're aboutto do something dangerous. so instead of being verycautious about things it you know instead of red lightyou're gonna have a yellow light or a green light.it affect that area of the brain called the amygdala,that's supose to alert you to somethingthat you're about to do </p><br /><p>it may not be smart. oxytocin affect thatarea as well. so basicallywhen kayla is... getting it on,as they say, with david, the oxytocinthat's being released affect how she thinks and feels and this is also very interesting on out take a second, oxytocin is being used </p><br /><p>in people with are high functioningautism or aspergers disorder because autism as you knowis a disorder of connection. these individuals have a lack of attachmentto other people they feel anxious with people, they don't read social cues well, they don't read facial cues well, they avoid lookinginto people's eyes, and it's been found thatwhen you give them some oxytocin </p><br /><p>they improved in those areas. oxytocin switcheslove and trust on and it switches cautionand aversion off. so when kayla ask me what's wrong withher for feeling attached to david andyearning for some sign that he was attached to her. i told her there'snothing wrong with you, nothing wrong with you. she was relieved to discovershe wasn't crazy. </p><br /><p>the only thing wrongwith this young woman was her ignoranceof your unique female wiring about that she didn't havea clue but how could she, the sexuality experts who promised to provide her with medically accurateup-to-date information failed to do so. i'm gonna quickly go through... </p><br /><p>the issues with condoms.these are quotes from family-planning...brochures about condoms teaser great athelping to protect you from stis. used correctly theyare 98% effective if used correctly every time theyare ninety percent effective, get them from your clinicyou get heaps for $3. now this is a problem because the real numbers are, are in terms of pregnancy </p><br /><p>perfect use by adultperfect use that means every time and using it every time... perfectly there's a 98... the protecting the avoidancepregnancy is 98% but by typical use by adult, which means not every time the slip to 85%.this is only </p><br /><p>vis-a-vis conception avoiding pregnancy so if we look atwith the numbers probably are for teenagers who typical useis going to be worse we can assume than adults, when you think of alcoholuse and impulsivity and so on it's goingto be under 85& but the question was askedin 2001 there was a meeting i've experts outside washington dc </p><br /><p>what scientific evidenceon the effectiveness a latex male condom used to prevent stdtransmission during vaginal intercourse and they met for a week and talked and comparedand went to the researchs and this was their answer, "it depends." that meant that it dependson the organism. </p><br /><p>there are many differentorganisms that we're looking at the best numbers are for hiv and that number is 80%. the worst numbers arefor the human papillomavirus which is probably around 0%. so even when condoms are useda 100% of the time a lot of people are stillgonna get herpes and arm human papillomavirus because theseviruses lives on skin </p><br /><p>that is not covered by condoms and even if you don't have a blister ora wart the virus can be present on the skin in you and a person canshare them somebody else. what bothers meand which should bother all of you is that... these terms are being used like very good protectionvery effective protection, exellent protection,even moderate protection. </p><br /><p>in this study of herpesa 100% condom use only lowered the risk by 30% now herpes is, not,this is not fun, to have herpes devastating and to only have a 30% lower risk i would not call thatmoderate protection. now i wanna just mentioned that these studies all referred to vaginalintercourse not anal intercourse </p><br /><p>and the food and drugadministration the united states which is responsible for... for approving medical devices and condoms are considereda medical device if you go to their websitethey will say condoms may be more likely to breakduring anal intercourse even if the condomdoesn't break, anal intercourse is very risky... condom provide some protection, </p><br /><p>but simply too dangerousto practice and this was set by wheneversurgeon generals years ago it's still on the website there and i believe that thisis what we should be it simply too dangerous to practice. a word about the teen brain, there so much science herethat i could tell you i'm just picking a few few...few vital things. all of us who have workedwith young people with teens </p><br /><p>know that,how should i say it they do goofy thing. use that word goofy, right? they do goofy thing and then the next daywhen you say them "what were you thinking?" well, what they say?they often say "you know,i guess i wasn't thinking". and we've discovered nowthis is so amazing </p><br /><p>we've discovered thatthe part of their brain that the part of...of anyone's brain that is responsible for... for thinking thingsout for analyzing for thinking of consequences you knowwhat's gonna be in the future if i do such-and-such. that is the part of the brain that matures lastand actually doesn't mature </p><br /><p>until the mid twenties.and what i have here is an advertisementthat was run by a company that sells car insurance called allstateand they drew on this research about the teen brain to explain topeople why the insurance rates are so high for teenagers and youngadults but then when you reach25 the rates go down. so this was their ad, </p><br /><p>"why do most 16-year-olds "drive like they're missinga part of their brain?" "because they are..." and there you haveit says their teen, 16-year-old brain hitchhikersa party a bit missing. but this is not a joke this is really been shown.now what is the relevant of this to the sex education? its very relevant to sexeducation </p><br /><p>because one of the core ideas of sex educationis that all we need to do is give young people informationand birth control and reproductive healthservices. just give them informationinformation information truckloads of condomsjust keep giving it to them. we know now that very often the reasonfor their poor decision is not that they don't have theinformation </p><br /><p>it's that they don't have to goodjudgment and think about itwith condoms you know we're asking teenagersin the heat of the moment you know, we're askingthem to suddenly stop and... you know find the condom make sure it hasn't expired open it up put it on properly. i mean, come on!that called realistic? </p><br /><p>i think that it's much morerealistic to advise students that it's best not to evenfind yourself in that situation. so i'm gonna wrap upjust by telling you that in a recent interviewi was told that i must be exaggerating i was toldit must be hyperbole when i say that sexeducation is madness. i do call it madnessthat it teaches untruth and exposes our kids to smut. </p><br /><p>if that's truei was asked wouldn't there be congressionalhearings about it? but i am not exaggerating from my perspective having taking oathto prevent disease. the principal,of what for me over the states isplanned parenthood and your familyplanning association or rainbow youth </p><br /><p>those principlesthey are madness because they promote sexualfreedom and "when sexualfreedom reigns, "sexual health suffers." is every young person going topostpone sex? of course not. but we are still obligatedto inform them above the risk they face. to teach them biological truths about their physicaland emotional vulnerabilities </p><br /><p>to warn them in and no nonsense manner about avoidinghigh-risk behaviors and to encourage the highest standard that's what we do in everyother area of health care but whenit comes to sexuality kids are being taughtthat they can play fire. and the waiting room of doctors have doctors and therapist are filled with people who have been burned </p><br /><p>inside and out. i urge all of you to condemnthis dangerous message to tell students that sexis a serious matter that what they're seeing on televisionand at the movies is fiction. in fact, scienceaffirms the age old wisdom of restricting sexual expressionto marriage. that is the ideal. tell students that the pain and anguish </p><br /><p>of sexuallytransmitted infection and unwanted pregnancies are 100% avoidable. its all in their handsand they can do it. educate yourself about thesegovernment-funded groups and the materialthey promote to students, don't allow the stuffinto yours schools. there's a lot of work to be done andit's not easy to speak up these things. it's awkwardand everyone squirms </p><br /><p>but the stakes are very high and it's too important not to. but most of allwe really don't want to hear what i've been hearingfrom my students. we don't want our studentsto come back to us </p><br /><img align="center" src="" alt="sex education curriculum" /><br /><p>in a few years and say... "why didn't i know?" "why didn't anybody tell me?" thank you so much. </p><br /><p></p></div><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QO1A9uwRhIQ?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Diana.Lhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957689766549596146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892821641100309695.post-47627901900422374272017-04-25T17:26:00.000-07:002017-04-25T17:26:01.220-07:00sex education classes<img src="" height="500" width="500"><br /><br /><div align="justify"><p>you know, people say evolution is not a badphilosophy. but at the same time it was hitler’s religionduring the third reich in germany. hi, my name is eric. in this next seminar,dr. hovind exposes some of the terrible things that have been done in the name of evolution. because dictators throughout time have usedthe evolutionary ideas to support their brutal </p><br /><p>sex education classes, tactics. hi, it’s an honor to be here in wisconsin.my roots go back to wisconsin. my mom and dad were both raised over in lacrosse,wisconsin. my name is kent hovind. i was a high schoolscience teacher for fifteen years. </p><br /><p>and now for the last sixteen years i’ve beendoing seminars all over the world on creation, evolution,and dinosaurs. i tell people right up front that i believethe bible is the infallible, inspired, inerrant word of the living god.i believe it from cover to cover. i even believe the cover on mine, that says:kent hovind. i believe that. what i want to do in my seminars is to strengthenyour faith in the word of god. in this section we’re going to talk aboutwhy the evolution theory that’s being taught in our school is not only dumb; it’s dangerous. i wouldn’t leave my gorgeous wife and travelaround the country, i was gone for 215 days </p><br /><p>last year, i would not do that unless i really, honestly, believed this is public enemy number1. evolution is a dangerous philosophy. i taught science for years. i like scienceand i’m not against science. but folks there’s some just plain old poisonmixed in these science books. everyday for a hour and a half, we have acreation science hour and a half, were we start off the program by saying, we believethe bible is literally true and scientifically accurate, and the evolution theory is thedumbest, most dangerous religion in the history of planet earth. that always get the atheistsstirred up. and we take phone calls and instant messages from all over the world on this topicand your welcome to join us on the program, </p><br /><p>it is on the internet: truthradio.com or youcan link to it fom my site: drdino.com. i believe evolution is a dangerous theoryfor seven reasons. it’s going to take us several hours to coverall this. it’s based on nothing but lies; and satanis the father of lies. the evolution theory removes all moralityand all ways to discover how to have morality. it is the foundation for: humanism, racism,nazism, communism, and the new world order that’s coming soon to a city near you! we’ll get into all of that as we go alonghere. in the last couple of sessions we talked aboutsome of the lies in the textbooks </p><br /><p>that are used to support the evolution theory. everything that’s ever been used as evidencefor the theory has been proven wrong. get it out of the textbooks! it’s a no brainer;don’t lie to the kids, period. and we showed you how the atheists have ratedthe different states on how well they’re teaching evolution and they thinkyou folks in wisconsin are doing a lousy job at teaching evolution to your kids.yeah, keep it up! now they think you folks in california aredoing a good job teaching evolution. frank, come on, i want that thing red nexttime do that survey, okay? evolution is not only a dangerous theory becauseit’s based on lies only. </p><br /><p>it’s dangerous because it removes all morality. huxley said, “i suppose the reason we leaptat the origin of species was that the idea of god interfered with our sexualmores.†ooooh. we don’t want god telling us we can’tcommit adultery. you know, joseph stalin ordered the executionof 14,700 polish officers: they were prisoners of war. why would you execute prisoners of war? imean, what happened to the geneva convention? why did hitler kill six million people? - atleast, maybe more. why did pol pot of the khmer rouge in cambodiakill one third of their entire population? </p><br /><p>a third of all the cambodians were killed... why? why were the australian aborigines treatedlike animals? they were rounded up and slaughtered. every single tasmanian aborigine was killed. kip kinkle said, “if there was a god, he wouldn’tlet me feel the way i do. there is no god, only hate.†what happenedto kip kinkle? well, in 1998, kip kinkle walked into hisschool cafeteria and shot fifty rounds from a semi-automatic rifle; 26 students wereinjured, two killed. later, the bodies of his parents were foundin his home. he was arrested, taken to police headquarterswhere he attempted to </p><br /><p>murder a detective during his initial questioning. almost right after the shooting, five morestudents within the springfield school district in oregon werearrested for threatening to murder students. one elementary kid shot five of his classmateswith his bb gun. “if there’s a god, he wouldn’t let me feelthe way i do.†well, maybe if kip kinkle had been learning,“hey there is a god and he loves you, and he’s got a plan for your life and youbetter do what he says,†maybe he wouldn’t do that kind of thing. could it be that what we are teaching ourkids is causing this problem? </p><br /><p>violent crimes have increased nearly a 1,000percent since i was a boy. i remember the days when you did not haveto lock your house. does anyone remember those days? yeah. there’s been 29 school shooting in americasince 1996. i’ve got a list of most of them here. 29 school shootings ... just in ten years.what has happened? why are kids and teachers being killed andparents being killed by students? back when i was in school, you got in troubleto doing spit wads. ten teachers and 48 students have been killed,along with 7 teachers and 107 students wounded. </p><br /><p>dylan klebold of the columbine high schooland eric harris made a video tape before they did the shooting. on the tape,they were talking about a football player. they said, “he doesn’t deserve the jaw evolutiongave him. look for his jaw, it won’t be on his body.†kiebold’s father was a geologist who believedin evolution. both of the boys are followers of nazi teachings. they did the shooting on hitler’s birthdayon purpose to commemorate adolf hitler. they shot isaiah just because he’s black.eric’s tee-shirt says, “natural selection.†natural selection - that’s what evolutionteaches. </p><br /><p>if you go back a couple years to starting1992 there have been 235 students killed in the ten years span of our schoolsystem. ten percent of all the boys in schools arenow threatened or injured with a weapon at school. one out of ten. the number of students caughtwith a firearm increased 29 percent in one year. “natural selection?†if the strongest survive,well then if that guy’s bigger than me, i better bring a gun to even the odds. this evolution theory is not just dumb, folks,it’s dangerous. it removes all morality. </p><br /><p>there’s no such thing as right and wrong.might becomes right. textbooks say you’re an animal and share acommon heritage with earthworms. could it possibly be that what we are teachingkids is causing this problem in our schools? “ye shall know the truth, and the truth shallset you free.†satan has got a plan; and god has got a plan. god’s plan is to fill his creation with peoplewho obey his laws, live in peace, use the preaching of his word to win souls,and go to live forever with him in heaven. satan’s plan is to reduce the population tozero. he hates humanity, exactly the opposite ofchristianity. </p><br /><p>he wants to promise secret knowledge so that:“you can learn something that nobody else knows.†that’s what all the masonic lodges promisetoo, by the way - some kind of secret knowledge. use the teaching of evolution to get peopleto accomplish his goals and have people go to hell forever. satan wantsto reduce the population. the bible says, “all things were created byhim, and for him.†god made a beautiful planet, beautiful gardenand said, “hey, fill it with people.†first thing he said to adam, was a blessing.“be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth.†go fill it up. it’s a blessing. this is thefirst mention of the word, “blessing.†“blessed.†</p><br /><p>adam lived 130 years and had a son named seth. and then he lived 800 years and had sons anddaughters. hebrew tradition says they had 56 childrenin that first family. i don’t know where they get that number, butin 800 years you could have a lot of kids. you’ve got nine in how many years, brother?17 years, nine kids, one every two years. yeah, in 800 years you could have a familyof 400. [audience laughs] i met a family from minnesota with 20 kids,all of them under 20. it’s cold in minnesota. [audience laughs] they had huge families back then; that wasgod’s plan. fill the earth with people. </p><br /><p>jim duggar, friend of mine, has 15 kids in15 years. god blessed noah and said “be fruitful, multiply,replenish the earth.†“as for ishmael, i’ve blessed him; twelveprinces shall he beget.†“and they blessed rebecca and said, be thouthe mother of thousands of millions.†now that would be a little much, okay, buti can imagine a few dozen. children are a heritage of the lord. see,god’s plan is to fill the earth with people. satan wants exactly the opposite. the biblesays god formed it to be inhabited. it was very different in the pre-flood world.we covered that in seminar #6. god saw everything and it was very good; that’sperfect; that’s the way i want it. </p><br /><p>satan’s plan is to put it back to zero. he wants to reduce human population with reducedbirth rates by abortion. are you for proposition ru486? by the way,interesting - in the military, when they want to throw something away, whatdo they call it? you’re going to “86 it,†right? are you for 86, for throwing the kid away? i wonder if they picked that number on accidentor on purpose. birth control, homosexuality, lower cholesterol(that lowers fertility), high cost of living, smaller families, eugenics,high infant mortality rate with vaccines, sids (sudden infant death syndrome), childpornography, reduced population, high death </p><br /><p>rate among teens, suicide, drugs, alcohol, sexually transmitted diseases. just kill everybody with chemtrails or warsor genetically modified foods that will lower disease resistance or withdrugs. islam, it teaches that “if you don’t joinus, we have to kill you.†100 times in the koran it says they are requiredto kill anyone who won’t convert. it’s required. people say, “it’s a peacefulreligion.†well there may be some peaceful people init, but their religion isn’t peaceful! satan wants to reduce the population. </p><br /><p>jacques cousteau said, “we need to eliminate350,000 people a day to save the planet.†ted turner said that we need a 95% declinein population. okay ted, you first! [audience laughs] the serpent tricked eve in the garden of eden.and then the lord said to the serpent, “that’s it, you’re going to crawl on yourbelly for the rest of your life.†and the then lord said, “i’ll put enmity betweenthee and the woman, between thy seed and her said; it shall bruisethy head.†satan knows some seed of the woman is goingto bruise his head. he didn’t want that to happen so his planapparently is to try to kill </p><br /><p>every human being on the planet. he wantsto kill everybody. remember when herod wanted to kill baby jesusin bethlehem? what did he do? he slew all the children, “let’s just killthem all to be sure to get the right one.†satan wants to kill every human on the planet. and some of his followers and helpers downhere are working at that goal right now. charles wurster said, “people are the causeof all the problems; we need to get rid of some of them.†bill clinton signed the bio-diversity treatythat said, “we should reduce the population of the earthto 1 billion.†</p><br /><p>they already have the earth divided up intosegments. red areas are for animals only - no humansallowed. that hasn’t been enforced yet, but it’s beenpassed. peter singer [of princeton] favors abortionsafter the kid is born. give the parent 28 days to decide if theywant to keep it. i wouldn’t be here, my parents probably wouldhave killed me many times growing up. some of you would have killed your kids too,right? peter singer said, “christianity is our foe. if animal rights are to succeed, we must destroythe judeo-christian religious tradition.†</p><br /><p>do animals have more rights than humans? alangregg said, “the world has cancer, and that cancer is man.†prince philip, the husband of queen elizabeth,said, “if i could be reincarnated, i would wish to return to earth as a killervirus to lower human population.†nice guy, phil. monsanto corporation has been very busy tryingto make a lot of money off of genetically modified foods. 70% of the processed foods that you eat, comefrom genetically modified foods. they’ve been band in europe; they won’t eatthem. in the u.s. everybody eats them - 70% </p><br /><p>of your diet. this genetically modified food is very interesting.you should read the book, “seeds of deception.†you can get it on our website at www.drdino.com,if you want to learn about genetically modified foods and what’s happening.our food supply has been so polluted. “love of money, root of all evil,†somebodywants to make money. the united nations believes that food is powerand they’re going to use it to control behavior. len horowitz has a great video and book outabout emerging viruses. before you get any kid vaccinated for anyreason, you’d better study the subject before you make a decision on vaccines. goto tetrahedron.org or billsardi.com or </p><br /><p>get the book “vaccines: the deadly deceptionâ€on our table out there. we cover more of this on our “bible and healthâ€video on the problems of vaccines, lowering population levels. did you know autism has increased 75,000%in illinois over a ten-year span? autism is increasing everywhere. there are many folks like mary tocco, herweb site is www.marytocco.com it is a good website. she studied this intentlysaid, look, these autism increases are because of vaccinations. that’s what is causing it. america has thehighest sudden infant death rate syndromes </p><br /><p>among industrialized nations. in 1970, australia made vaccines non-mandatory. 50% of the parents opted out of the programand sids (sudden infant death syndrome) dropped by 50%. strange? dr. william tortes at the university of nevadaschool of medicine said, “two-thirds of the sids babies have been vaccinatedwith dpt in the preceding three weeks.†don’t you think a medical doctor would maybelook and see if there is some kind of connection here? go outside of atlanta, georgia to the townof elberton. </p><br /><p>drive north seven or eight miles and you seeway off in the middle of no place just this big old field with rocks stickingout of the ground. as you drive up to them you say, “man, thisis a man-made object like stonehenge.†it has the ten commandments for the new worldorder in twelve languages. commandment number 1: “maintain humanity undera half billion.†there’s already six billion. how are they going to maintain it under ahalf billion? they’ve got big plans to reduce the population. one of them involves chemtrails: how manyof you have seen these things? they are spraying them our of airplanes all over the place.have they sprayed your area of wisconsin with </p><br /><p>chemtrails? this is not contrails; this isnot coming out of the engine, they are spraying chemicals. all over the united states, whatfor? well they want to reduce the population and this will sure do it. because the stuffthey are spraying is going to do exactly that. just check it out on the internet go to googleinternet search and type in “chemtrails†or “chemical trails†just read it yourself. youwon’t believe the stuff that they are spraying over your city! the purpose is a long termpurpose to reduce the population of the world! we will cover more on that in our collegeclasses. satan hates humanity and wants to reduce the population to a half billion, thatis what he is telling these people. they don’t know it but ted turner and these guys arebeing used by satan to get the population </p><br /><p>down to half billion and then he wants tokill them. satan’s plan is zero! god wants to have us obey his laws. satan says, “no, you disobey god’s laws. iwant you to be punished. i want you to go to hell.†we could talk all day about satan’s plan forthe new world order in that sense. god’s commandments are not grievous. god putthem in the garden, said “you can eat of any tree except that one tree,the knowledge of good and evil.†it’s real simple, adam. enjoy the garden,have lots of kids, and don’t learn about evil. after they disobeyed, romans chapter 16, paulsaid, </p><br /><p>“i would have you wise unto that which isgood and simple concerning evil.†parents, don’t teach your kids about all theevil things. don’t have drug education classes where youshow them, “hey, this is marijuana. this is how you smokeit. now don’t you do that!†[audience laughs] duh. don’t put them in sex education classes inseventh grade, it’s a plumbing class at that time. don’t do that, okay? let them be ignorant. let them learn it frommom and dad, not from some heathen, okay? it’s real simple adam. enjoy the world andhave lots of kids and don’t learn about evil. </p><br /><p>don’t learn all that stuff. the lord said,“hey, have you eaten off that tree i told you not to eat from?†god is not asking for information. he’s askingfor a confession. and the man said, “the woman (he passed thebuck or blame) whom thou gave to be with me. now god, this is really your fault, you know.if you hadn’t given her to me i wouldn’t have this problem.†he said to the woman, “have you done this?†she said, “well, the snake that you made....†</p><br /><p>we still do the same thing, nothing changes,okay? fear god, keep his commandments. just like the taking of life is very importantin any culture. murder is serious. giving life is important. that’s why god put certain rules down forreproduction, okay? follow his rules. “thou shalt not commit adultery. whoremongersand adulterers god will judge.†don’t even look and lust or you’ve committedadultery already in your heart. by the way, ladies, that’s why it’s importanthow you dress, okay? my daddy always said, “if you’re not in business,don’t advertise.†[audience laughs] women should dress in modest apparel. that’swhat the bible says, alright. </p><br /><p>premarital sex increased like crazy since1963 when evolution became popular in our school system. now a third of the kids born in the hospitalsare born to a couple not married. 725% increase in unmarried couples livingtogether in adultery. divorce rates have gone crazy. violent crimeshave gone up a 1000%. in 1973, the supreme court said the word persondoes not include the unborn. that, people think, justifies abortion. there’snow been 45 million aborted babies in america. a billion worldwide. satan’s plan - reducethe population. boy, that will do it. this evolution theory is the foundation philosophyfor humanism. </p><br /><p>humanism is the idea that man is god. afterall, there is no god out there, so we must be god. the bible says, “they did not like to retaingod in their knowledge, god gave them over to a reprobate mind.†“do humanists believe in a supreme being?emphatically, yes. that supreme being is man. humanists have no knowledge of any being moresupreme.†“...the turning point in history will be themoment that man becomes aware that the only god of man is man himself.†i spoke at a public school in pennsylvaniaone time and a kid sat on a second row. </p><br /><p>he said, “mr. hovind, i’m an atheist.†i said,“really?†i said, “you don’t believe there’s a god?†he said, “no, there’s no god.†i said, “well,son, let me ask you a question.†this kid’s a senior in high school. i said, “do you know everything.†he said,“oh no, no.†i said, “do you know maybe half of everything?†he said, “no.†i said, “well, let’s just pretendfor a few minutes that you know half of everything.†i said, “is it possible that god exists inthe other half that you don’t know?†[audience laughs] </p><br /><p>brand new thought bounced around in his brainfor a while and got lost, i’m sure. [audience i said, “let me ask you a question son. ifyou’re an atheist, how do you tell right from wrong?†he said, “that’s easy. i decide what’s rightand wrong.†he said, “i’m the god of my own universe.†i said, “i’m glad to hear about that becausei’m going to shoot you in five minutes.†he said, “you can’t do that.†i said, “ohyes i can. you see, i’m the god of my own universe andi decided that it’s fine for me to shoot you.†how do you decide right from wrong? i’ve askedthis question to evolutions all over the world. </p><br /><p>i’ve never gotten one to answer it. simplequestion. if evolution is true, how do you tell right from wrong? how do we tell right from wrong? is therea big cosmic standard someplace? a “thus saith the lord?†if there isn’t, we’rein trouble. this russian atheist astronomer came to americaand he said, “folks, either there is a god or there isn’t.†i thought, now this guy is really smart. andthen he said, “both possibilities are frightening.†wow, that’s a thought. if there’s a god, webetter find out who he is and find out what he wants. </p><br /><p>and do what he says because he owns this place.if there is no god, we are in trouble. we’re hurdling through space at 66,000 milesan hour and nobody is in charge. a scary thought. evolution is the foundation for humanism - manbecomes god. adolf hitler, “i am god!†“i am god... i am god... i am god... i amgod! i am god!†hey gabriel, come and listen to this one!ha! ha! ha! [audience laughs] one guy said, “i will not accept creationphilosophically because i do not want to believe in god; therefore, i choose to believe in that whichi know is scientifically impossible.†</p><br /><p>rifkin said, “we no longer feel ourselvesto be guests in someone else’s home and therefore obliged to make our behaviorconform to a set of preexisting cosmic rules. it’s our creation now. we make the rules.we establish the parameters of reality. we create the world and because we do, weno longer feel ourselves beholden to outside forces. we no longer have to justify our behavior,for now. we are now the architects of the universe. we are responsible to nothing outside of ourselves,so we are the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever.†</p><br /><p>that’s humanism. and evolution is the foundationfor this pagan, idiotic philosophy. lewontin said, “we take the side of sciencein spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs. we have a prior commitment ... a commitmentto materialism.†materialism is an absolute that we cannotallow a divine foot in the door. we cannot even think about the idea theremight be a creator. satan’s put it into the minds of his followersthat they ought to build a kingdom and rule the world. once you reject god, then a bunch of peopleget together and say, </p><br /><p>“wow, we got to control this planet. we’vegot to rule the world. one thing we have to do is start to kill someof the other people; there’s too many of them here.†see, if evolution is true, who owns the world?who makes the rules? how do we decide right from wrong? if man is god, and that’s what humanism means,there is no absolute standard. how do you tell right from wrong? i mean,maybe osama bin laden should tell right from wrong for everybody. maybe congress should decide. maybe bill clintonought to decide. “right and wrong? never heard </p><br /><p>of that before.†how do you tell right from wrong? where arethe rules? look folks, during the civil ware, one guydecided he did not want to get involved. so, he put on a yankee coat and rebel pants.after the battle, he was found dead. his yankee coat was full of rebel bullet holesand his rebel pants was full of yankee bullet holes. you might as well get on one side or the other,okay? just make a decision. we’re in the middle of a battle - the biggestbattle on the planet. we are in the middle of it. </p><br /><p>mankind is the battlefield between satan andgod. there’s a great book by henry morris called“the long war against god.†i highly recommend that one. it’s so simple. you decide which side youwant to be on and then help your general win. christians have a great advantage. see, wehave an infallible book that tells us how it comes out. i read the last chapter - we win! i thinkit would be smart to get on god’s side, okay? more on that in our college class 103. evolution is a dangerous philosophy becauseit’s the foundation for racism. </p><br /><p>the idea that one race of people is superiorto another comes from evolution. here’s darwin’s book, “the origin of species.â€that’s not the whole title. and by the way, the theory of evolution waspopular way before darwin; he just made it more popular. aristotle taught a form of evolution in 400b.c. the egyptians taught evolution to moses when he was in school. they said, “life evolved from the slime onthe nile river.†moses learned that growing up. later, he edited the book of genesis. “inthe beginning, god created the heaven and </p><br /><p>the earth.†didn’t phase him, okay? the textbooks willshow you that there are different species of animals. “the origin of species,†now wait a minute. there might be different species, but they’rethe same kind of animal, quite obviously. now this textbook gives a little more of thetitle. it says that darwin called it: “the origin of species, by means of naturalselection.†they’re lying! they’re not giving the whole title, i’ve gotit right here in my hand. here’s the real title of the book: “the originof species, by means of natural selection </p><br /><p>... or the preservation of favored races in thestruggle for life.†favored races? now charlie, that’s not politically correct!oh, it was in 1859 when he wrote the book. they had slavery in america. darwin thoughtthat natives were just advanced animals. darwin said, “in some future period not verydistant as measure by centuries, the civilized races of man will all most certainlyexterminate and replace the savage races.†darwin said, “from the war of nature and famineand death, the most exalted object were capable of conceiving, the production of higher animals follows.â€you see, that was popular to say in 1859. </p><br /><p>we had slavery in this country. you couldbuy and sell negros like cows. henry fairfield osborn from the american museumof natural history said, “the standard intelligence of the averageadult negro is similar to that of the eleven year old youth of thespecies homo sapiens.†now if a professor said that today, how longwould he keep his job? steven gould knew this was true. he said, “biological arguments for racismmay have been common before 1850 but they increased by orders of magnitude followingthe acceptance of evolutionary theory.†huxley said, “no rational man, cognizant ofthe facts, believes the average negro is the </p><br /><p>equal, still less the superior, of the white man.â€kingsley, an anglican priest said, “the black people of australian, exactly thesame race as the african negro, cannot take in the gospel. they can’t be saved, he said. all attemptsto bring them to the knowledge of the true god have yet utterly failed. poor brutes in human shape, they must perishoff the face of the earth.†kingsley was an anglican priest who went aroundpromoting darwin’s book when it came out. in 1860, kingsley wrote a letter to his wifeafter he visited ireland from the potato famine </p><br /><p>where a million people died. he said, “i amhaunted by the human chimpanzees ... i saw along the hundred miles of horriblecountry. to see white chimpanzees is dreadful, if they were black, one would not feel it so much, but their skin,except where tan by exposure, is as white as ours.†here are these irish people starving fromthe potato famine. kingsley drives by and looks at them and says,“ahh, these poor white chimpanzees.†he thought they hadn’t evolved as far. themormons teach negros in this life are denied the priesthood. </p><br /><p>“negros are not equal with other races. it’sthe lord’s doing. it’s based on his law of spiritual laws ofjustice and grows out of the lack of spiritual valiance of those concernedin the first estate.†see, the mormons teach babies in heaven areborn first. the heavenly father has thousands of wives,and has spirit babies. if they’re good spirit babies, when they cometo earth they get a white-skinned body. if they’re bad spirit baby, they get a black-skinnedbody. that’s what they teach. in mormon doctrine by bruce mcconkie, he said,“it’s a divine decree, cain, ham and the whole negro race have been cursed withblack skin - the mark of cain.†</p><br /><p>mormon apostle peterson said, “if there’sa drop of negro blood in my children as i’ve read to you, they receive the curse.†mormon president brigham young said, “shouldi tell you the law of god in regard to the african race? if the white man which belongs to the chosenseed mixes his seed, mixes his blood, with the seed of cain, the penalty under the law of god is deathon the spot. this will always be so.†you should read some books about mormonismand see what they’ve done in the past few hundred years over this teachingof racial superiority. </p><br /><p>see, racism was popular in the 1800’s. i mean,they would buy the slaves and put them on ships and pack them in as tight as they could. if abunch died, oh well. save as many of them as you can. they sold them on the market. some leadersin america thought the aborigines were not as evolved as the white man because the aborigines havea bigger jaw. their jaw bones are bigger. eskimos in alaska have the same thing. theyhave bigger jaw bones. they said, “well, that’s because they aren’tas evolved from the apes as we are.†</p><br /><p>no, that’s because they use their jaws allthe time like a vice. they don’t carry a tool box around with them. they migrate each year so they don’t wantto carry fifty pounds of tools. when they want to pull the skin off of something,they hold it in their teeth and pull the skin off. they use their jaw muscles all the time. anybody builder would tell you the more you use your muscles the bigger your bones get. it actually developsthe bones also. “the mental life of savages rises little abovethat of higher mammals, </p><br /><p>especially the apes with which they are geneticallyconnected. the intelligence moves within the narrowestbounds and one can know more or less speak of their reason than that of the more intelligentanimals. these lower races such as the veddahs or australiannegros are physiologically nearer to the mammals, apes or dogs, than to civilized europeans.we must, therefore, assign a totally different value to their lives.†that’s ernst haeckel, the guy who lied aboutthe gill slits. at the beginning of the white settlement,this is in australia, there were an estimated </p><br /><p>300,000 aborigines all over australia. aborigines were viewedby the settlers as primitive savages. in addition to warfare and killing, water,flour, and sugar were poisoned and diseases like smallpox, measles, and influenza were introducedintentionally to lower the population. it was the law; you could kill aboriginesif you wanted. how many saw the movie, “quigley down under?†he was brought in to kill the aborigines becauseit was a marksman. in tasmania every single tasmanian aboriginewas killed. why? </p><br /><p>i think the evolution theory is directly responsiblefor what happened to the slaughter of the aborigines. these two people went to australia to collectskulls for the museums in america. here’s the article right here: “a new southwales missionary was a horrified witness to the slaughter by mounted police of a group of dozens ofaboriginal men, women and children.†forty-five heads were boiled down and thebest ten skulls were packed off for overseas. they shot them just to get the bones. thesmithsonian has 33,000 sets of human remains in their basement. </p><br /><p>they call it the army of the potomac. theseare used for evidence of evolution. charles darwin’s cousin, francis galton, starteda movement called the eugenics movement to purify the human race. let’s get rid of some of these inferior races,they believed. they drew in from all branches of scienceto make eugenics, to “improve humanity.†we could spend days talking about eugenics. these ideas gave rise to american laws thatempowered doctors to sterilize people they judged to be unfit. as a result, black estimates that some 60,000people were sterilized in the united states </p><br /><p>over the course of the twentieth century.some doctor thought, “oh, they’re not fit to be a mom or a dad.†they sterilized them. this is in america. the most chilling though, were the ways whichamerican eugenics influenced their german counterparts. hitler said, “i’ve studied with great interestthe laws of several american states concerning the prevention and reproduction by peoplewhose progeny would in all probability be of no value or be injurious to the racial stock.†in 1904st. louis had the world’s fair. </p><br /><p>they brought in 2,000 of what they said wereprimitive people and had a big display about the primitive people to demonstratethe superiority of the white man. that’s only a hundred years ago, folks. otabenga was put in a cage with chimpanzees. he was taken away from his wife and two kids.they put him in with the chimpanzees as part the displays so people could go by and laughat how primitive the pygmies were. he died; he committed suicide, ota did. he’sburied in lynchburg, virginia. teddy roosevelt thought the indians were aninferior species because they hadn’t evolved as far. roosevelt said, “i wish the wrong people couldbe prevented entirely from breeding.†</p><br /><p>he thought the immigrants from europe, scotland,ireland, and the orient were a threat to american society. how many of you have ancestors from one ofthose places? oh, you’re an inferior species according to these guys. in 1871, congress scrapped all treaties withthe indians and moved them off to the reservation system that they’re stillusing today. the cherokees down from florida were movedoff to oklahoma, made an indian territory. one third of them died along the forced journey,called “the trail of tears,†because our leaders thought they were an inferiorspecies. </p><br /><p>we could spend all day on that one. the biblesays that we’ve all got one father. there’s no reason to be a racist. god hathmade of one blood all nations of men to dwell upon the earth. darwin also said, “a married man is a poorslave, worse than a negro.†i never met his wife, but if a college professorsaid that today, how long would he keep his job, or his life? darwin said, “the chief distinction in intellectualpowers of the two sexes is shown by man’s attaining to a higher eminence inwhatever he takes up than can woman. whether requiring deep thought, reason, orimagination, or merely the use of </p><br /><p>senses and hands, the average mental powerin a man must be above that of women.†he said, “man has ultimately become superiorto women, poetry, strength, voice, etc.†darwin believed in inbreeding. he marriedhis first cousin, emma wedgewood. he wanted to have a superior stock. they produced ten children. mary died shortlyafter birth. anne died at age ten. robert born retarded died at nineteen months.henrietta had a serious nervous breakdown. three of his other six sons were ill so oftenthat charles thought they were semi-invalids. so much for your superior stock, charlie.evolution is a bad tree that has a bad root; it brings forth evil fruit. </p><br /><p>evolution is the foundation for immorality. it is the foundation for humanism; the foundationfor racism; and now we’re going to cover how evolution is the foundation philosophy fornazism, communism, and the new world order. evolution: the foundation for nazism. whydid hitler do what he did? now mussolini, the dictator in italy, thought the italianswere the superior species that deserved to rule the world. so did the germans, so they linked up togetherfor a while. so they thought, “while, we’ll just rule ittogether and then when we get too many people we’ll decide between the twoof us who is the strongest.†</p><br /><p>mussolini and hitler were strong believersin evolution. now hitler believed the germans were the superiorrace that deserved to rule the world. arthur keith said, “the german fã¼hrer hasconsistently sought to make the practice of germany conform to the theoryof evolution.†a direct line runs from darwin to the fatherof eugenics movement, darwin’s cousin, francis galton, to the extermination campsof nazi europe. hitler’s book that he wrote, mein kampf, written1924 while he was in prison, between the two world wars is full of evolution.you ought to read the book. it’s a boring read for one thing, but it’sabsolutely full of his evolution philosophy. </p><br /><p>since the time he was a boy he was dominatedby this one thinking, that one race is superior to another, becauseof evolution. in this book, while six million died, it tellsabout the story where hitler offered to send the jews to anybody who would take them.hitler said, “do you want the jews? i’ll send them to you on luxury ships if youwant them.†you know, america refused to take the jews.roosevelt said, “we don’t want them.†america had very racist immigration policiesbefore world war ii. long stories about this there. you can read about the ship that came to cubaand tried to unload their jews. </p><br /><p>they said, “we don’t want them.†they sailedall the way up the east coast of america. every port in america refused to allow somenine hundred jews to get off the boat. so they sent them back to europe. in hitler’sbook, mein kampf, he said, “no more does nature desire the mating ofweaker with stronger individuals. even less does she desire the blending thehigher with the lower race.†he talked about the mingling of aryan bloodand lower peoples. this is all based on a philosophy called evolution.one race has evolved further than the rest. who’s an aryan? and what are these lower peoplesanyway? well, hitler taught that the blond-haired,blue-eyed norwegians were close to pure aryan </p><br /><p>did you follow all of that? the blond-haired,blue-eyed norwegian. and he thought the germans were mostly aryan? the mediterranean’s are slightly aryan. slavicsare half aryan, half ape. orientals are slightly ape. the black africans are mostly ape and thejews are close to pure ape. hitler killed the jews because of his evolutionthinking. we fought a really big war, probably a 100million people died in world war ii altogether because of that stupid theory. it’s not justdumb, folks, it’s dangerous. hitler also hated the black people. in 1936the olympics were held in berlin, germany. </p><br /><p>jessie owens, the black american athlete,won the most gold metals and hitler walked out of the stadium. he said, “it’s not fair to make my men raceagainst this animal.†one of the jewish prisoners who survived theholocaust said, “there’s a difference between those who lookupon their fellow human beings as common creatures a common creator and those who look upon themas conglomerate of biologicals and chemicals.†is the human body nothing but chemicals? hitlerthought, “man, we could get so many ounces of soap out of them and so many ounces of grease and so many ouncesof hair. it’s just chemicals.†i’ve been germany </p><br /><p>several times. i read lots of books about hitler and theholocaust just to keep my blood boiling. what hitler did was because of his beliefin evolution. he thought they were an inferior species. so this is not just some kind of academicdiscussion, folks; this is a dangerous philosophy. there i am at the flossenburg concentrationcamp where they mine all the granite for hitler’s monuments. and millions and millions of people were killedbecause of hitler’s belief in evolution. dumb, dumb idea. </p><br /><p>i stood in that spot where hitler was standingin that picture just thinking about this huge conference ground at nuremberg.hitler tried to make the individual feel small and the cause seem great. people are doing the same thing today withthe young people. hitler knew how to reach the youth of his nation. he wanted to indoctrinate the young people.by the way, nazism is still alive and well in america. it’s really alive and well in wisconsin. oneman in skokie, illinois near chicago told the authorities </p><br /><p>he killed a plastic surgeon he found in thephone book because these plastic surgeons were making blue-tinted contact lenses and they’re dilutingthe aryan beauty. he picked him out of the phone book and killed him. hitler thought that biological evolution wasthe best force to fight against traditional religion. hitler said, “i regard christianity as themost fatal, seductive lie that ever existed.†now, lutzer, from moody bible institute wrotea great book on hitler’s cross. but actually he was anti-christian in everythinghe did. you should read the barmen declaration. </p><br /><p>go to the internet and type in “barmen declaration.â€you wonder, where was the german resistance to hitler? where was the christian resistance to hitler?why didn’t the christians do something to stop this guy? well, we’re going to wonder that someday,“why didn’t the christians in america do something to stop the new world order? why didn’t theydo something?†hitler used nazi propaganda pictures like this; him walking out of a church with a cross abovehis head. it’s all propaganda. he hated christianity. did you know they had nazi baptisms and nazialtars. you could be baptized into nazism. </p><br /><p>it was a total religion. hitler said, “you tell a lie long enough andloud enough and often enough, the people will believe it.†he said, “people are more likely to believea big lie than a small one.†by the way, the japanese also thought theywere a superior species because they had evolved farther. darwin’s book hit japan and people just lovedit. i mean, the crazy religions they had japanat the time just absorbed evolution right into their thinking. </p><br /><p>when darwin’s book was translated into japanese,everybody said, “wow, what an amazing theory, evolution.†and the next obvious step is, hey if evolutionis true which race has evolved the farthest? japanese scientists did studies to find outwhich race of people have less hair and it was the japanese. they said, “see we’ve evolved farther fromthe apes.†they said, “we have milder body odor.†they did real scientific studies to provethe japanese had evolved farther. and that’s why you won’t understand what happenedin world war ii when american prisoners </p><br /><p>were captured and tortured like the bataan,the bataan death march, or the concentration camps over there. you’re not going to understand why this happeneduntil you understand the thinking of the japanese soldiers. they had been taught all of their lives: evolution.“we have evolved farther. these are an inferior species.†it’s really best if we eliminate them. thesoldiers that survived world war ii in japanese concentration camps were amazed at how cruel the japanese were,just very cruel to the prisoners. </p><br /><p>they thought they were an inferior species.evolution is the foundation for communism. communism is a theory that believes that goddoes not exist or is not necessary; that man is responsible. ties hand in hand with humanism. roger baldwin,the founder of the aclu: (aclu) american communist lawyers union. baldwinsaid, “communism is the goal.†the purpose of the aclu was to advance communism.that’s why they were founded. now, moses mordecai marx levy, alias “karlmarx,†the founder of communism, had written a paper when he was seventeen years old telling howmuch he loved the lord. </p><br /><p>then he went off to college, studied philosophy,turned his back on god, and developed his theories of communism, which goes hand in glove with evolution. didyou know 75 percent of kids who go from christian homes to public schools are going to lose theirfaith after one year of college? you parents better think long and hard beforeyou send your kids off to school. are you sending them off to a secular universityso they could make more money in life? is that your goal? you’re willing to riskthree fourths of them? i’d recommend at least one good year of biblecollege before they go to a secular school, </p><br /><p>even if it’s not accredited. just to get them grounded in the bible andreally get them grounded in creation before you send them off there. there is a high spiritual causality rate atthose places. now, karl marx said later in life, “my objective in life is to dethrone god anddestroy capitalism.†karl marx is the founder of communism. he based his philosophy on evolution. he triedto dedicate his book to charles darwin. he wrote a letter to charles darwin. he said,“dedicated to charles darwin from a sincere </p><br /><p>admirer - karl marx.†darwin’s wife said, “honey, you better notaccept this. this may be a little much.†karl marx had six children; never worked aday in his life. three of his kids died of starvation at infancy;two others commuted suicide. not a successful model father. when he died,six people attended his funeral. karl marx developed in 1848 the communistmanifesto: how to destroy a country; how to be taken over by communism. first thing, you abolish private property.now everything marx did was intentionally anti-christian. </p><br /><p>if the bible is for it, he’s against it. see,the bible makes private property a real serious issue. ownership of private property is critical.you can’t have freedom without property rights. what good does it do to say that you haveall kinds of freedom if there’s no place to exercise your freedom? leviticus 25 says the fiftieth year was hallowed,this was the year of jubilee. you could not possibly lose your propertypermanently in the biblical system. since everyman has his own vine and his ownfig tree, drink waters out of your own cistern, watersout of your own well. </p><br /><p>private property is essential. peter berle,the president of the national audubon society, said “we reject the idea of private property.â€i can guess where he got that. karl marx developed the idea of a graduatedincome tax. the more you make, the more they take. that’s karl marx’s idea. he’s said, “you needto abolish rights of inheritance.†the bible says a good man leaves an inheritanceto his children’s children. karl marx was against that. confiscate property rights. evolution is afoundation of communist philosophy behind </p><br /><p>the money powers. karl marx said, “we need a central bank.â€this was a communist idea. the banking system we’re using today in america,the federal reserve, is a direct result of karl marx’s thinking. there is nothing federal about it. it’s privatebankers that run our currency. the bible says, “the love of money is theroot of all evil.†all evil! what you need to do is real simple. you followthe yellow brick road. by the way, that whole movie was made to teachus something very interesting: the yellow brick road, </p><br /><p>the land of oz, “o,†“z†ounces of gold. theyhad a straw man: no brain. tin man: no heart. that’s commerce it’s heartless. there is along interesting story behind the real meaning of that movie. we cover much more on thatin the cse 103. karl marx, one of karl marx’s ideas was governmentownership of communication. like our fcc. or for transportation, like the tsa. karl marx’s idea is for the government totake over transportation. they’ve already taken over the airports, haven’tthey? try to fly. i fly two hundred and fifteen times a year,as i did last year. see what you got to go through with governmentregulation in transportation. </p><br /><p>government ownership of factories and agriculture.government control over labor. this was all marx’s idea. corporate farms and regional planning. everythingis exactly backwards to christianity. free education for all in public schools.that was karl marx’s idea. our public school system. hitler said, “let me control the textbooks,i’ll control the state.†martin luther said, “i am very much afraidthat the schools will prove to be the great gates to hell, unless they diligently labor in explainingthe scriptures, engraving them on the hearts </p><br /><p>of the youth. i advise no one to place his child where thescriptures do not reign paramount. every institution in which men are not increasinglyoccupied with the word of god must become corrupt.†here’s a 1777 schoolbook used here in america:“the new england primer.†they taught the kids the alphabet using poemslike this, “in adams fall, we sinned all - heaven tofind, the bible mind - christ crucified, for sinners died.†can you believe that’s a public school textbook?here’s how the kids learn their alphabet again. </p><br /><p>a: a wise son maketh a glad father. bibleverses, for all the letters of the alphabet. you need to read “the fourth reich of therich†if you want to study more education how money powers have gotten involved withthis. communism is totally anti-christian in every possible way. this is the communist rules for revolution.for number one, you corrupt the young. break down the moral virtues. this is incredible what they’ve done. corruptthe young. get them away from religion. brake down their moral virtues. encouragea soft government attitude towards crime. three strikes and your out. how about onestrike and your out? </p><br /><p>where’s the victim’s rights in all of this?divide the people into hostile groups. get the people’s minds off their government.focus their attention on athletics. get people more worried about soccer or footballthan what the government is doing. in 1896 there were three hundred and elevenathletes in the olympics. a hundred years later there were 13,000. there are probably people in this room thatknow more about the local sports team or the green bay packers than you do about whothe senators are from your state. our minds are off our government alright.control all media like cnn (communist news network). </p><br /><p>don’t get me started on the media. destroypeople’s faith in their leaders. lenin said, “those who cast the votes decidenothing. those who count the votes decide everything.†interesting thinking. who’s programming thesevoting booths that are counting the ballots by computer? who’s programming these voting booths whichcount the ballots by computer? go to “vote scam†on the internet. just type in “vote scam†and see what youfind. cause the registration of firearms so thatyou can eventually confiscate them. </p><br /><p>gun control, communist idea. lenin said, “oneperson with a gun can control a hundred people without one.†imagine this scene. you’re standing in a banktrying to cash a check. somebody runs in there, pulls out a gun, andsays, “everybody lay on the floor!†so everybody lies on the floor. now imaginethis scene. every citizen is armed. the guy runs in the bank, “lay on the floor!â€everybody else pulls out their guns. [audience you lay on the floor while they all stompon your head. every dictator throughout history has wanted gun control. it’s just a normal thing. you have to controlthe guns. every dictator has wanted that. </p><br /><p>we cover much more on that in our collegeclass 103 about the gun control. gun control isn’t about guns, it’s about control.somebody sent me this button as a joke, “proudly unarmed.†would you wear this? what does this say toa criminal? “rob me!†isn’t that what it says? at a very early age, comrade stalin went toa christian school, but he read darwin’s book and became an atheist. that’s the book which changed joseph stalin’slife, forever. joseph stalin killed between 60 and 100 millionof his own people. you should read anything written by alexandersolzhenitsyn, like his book the “gulag archipelago.†</p><br /><p>the concentration camp. he spent ten yearsin stalin’s concentration camps. my daughter-in-law is from ukraine. we used to have seven people on our stafffrom former soviet countries. we know what they do over there. when germany and russia attacked poland duringworld war two, poland was just totally overwhelmed. no chance of survival in a situation likethat. they captured all of these polish officers. they asked stalin, “what should we do withthe officers?†he said, “they’re just poles, execute them.†they finally admitted it in 1992. the russiansfinally admitted, “yes, we killed 14,700 officers </p><br /><p>at the katyn forest (massacre).†massacred them. why? well, if you believein evolution, you think you’re superior because they’re just inferior. it’s really best to wipe them out; it’s likepulling weeds, that’s all it is. pol pot, the leader cambodia during the cambodianreign of terror, killed one third of his own population. i don’t recommend that you watch the “killingfields.†it’s a pretty violent movie but it is pretty accurate. that’s what they did; they killed people bythe tens of thousands - for any reason. </p><br /><p>when communists took over china, they beganto kill christians at a rate of 15,000 a month. missionaries that were there reported thosethat survived, that got out of china, said, “you know, it was strange when they came intoour village, the communists came in they didn’t start teaching communism in the schools. thefirst thing they did in the schools was start teaching evolution.†communists know full well that evolution isthe foundation for communism. russian atheist astronomer said, “either thereis a god or there isn’t. both possibilities are frightening.†see, if there’s no god, man is in charge.if you put man in charge, you’re asking for </p><br /><p>disaster. the evolution theory is dangerous; it bringsforth bad fruit. it is a corrupt tree, and instead of pluckingthe branches off hiding abortion and all of these sins, which i think we should do, go for the rootman. fight the main philosophy behind it. the bible says that the earth is the lord’s.this whole problem started 6,000 years ago. god created everything. lucifer decided that he wanted to be god.probably about 100 years after the creation is when lucifer fell, </p><br /><p>i don’t know, we cover some of that on video2. lucifer started this long war against god. ezekiel tells us a little bit about it. itsays iniquity was found in him. he was perfect until iniquity was found inhim. he was lifted up because of his beauty; because of his power; and because of his riches.he’s the one that weakened the nations. isaiah tells us, “how have you fallen fromheaven oh lucifer, thou son of the morning. how aren’t they cut down to the ground whichdidst weaken the nations?†lucifer is causing this problem. he has decided, “i will ascend into heaven;i will exalt my throne above the stars of god. </p><br /><p>i will sit upon the mountains of congregationand the sides of the north; i will ascend above the heights of the clouds.i will be like the most high.†the bible says, “yet thou shalt be broughtdown to hell, to the sides of the pit. they that see thee shall narrowly look uponthee and consider saying, ‘is this the man that made the nations tremble?’†how many saw the movie wizard of oz? rememberwhen they finally pull the curtain back and there’s the great oz. is this the man? this is it? that’s oz? thatlittle guy pulling strings? he made the world as a wilderness and destroyedthe cities. </p><br /><p>that’s it? i thought you were the wonderful,great and mighty oz. no, we’re going to be amazed when we see satancasted into hell. we’re going to be amazed that this littlepuny guy, that has wreaked so much havoc on this world. satan is making plans to rule the world. kindof like the cartoon “pinky and the brain.†god is up in heaven laughing about it. psalm2 is a great tranquilizer. the more you study about what’s happeningin the world and the new world order coming soon, the more nervous you can get if you’re notcareful. just read psalm 2, it’ll calm you </p><br /><p>right down; it’s a good tranquilizer. “why do the heathenrage? the people imagine a vain thing? the kings of the earth set themselves, therulers take council together against the lord, against his anointed. saying, let us break their bands asunder andcast away their cords from us. he that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh.â€god is laughing at their plans for a new world order. if you want to read some good books, read“seven men who rule the world from the grave†based on their philosophy. what you believedetermines how you behave. that is for sure. </p><br /><p>to know about some things you can do aboutit in america to slow things down be sure to get this book about jury nullification. did you know that one person on the jury canjust vote “not guilty†if they don’t like the law? the question is not “are they guilty or not?â€the question is “is the law is reasonable?†i don’t like that law, “not guilty.†amazingbook; you ought to read it, it is just a dollar. henry morris as an awesome book called “thelong war against god.†that is a must read for anybody studying creationand evolution. it’s a bitter fruit coming off an evil tree, folks. </p><br /><p>evolution is also the foundation philosophyfor the new world order. there’s an excellent video that you can getfrom our ministry: “megiddo.†it is: “megiddo 1†and “megiddo 2.†if you want to study what’s really going onand get the whole philosophy of what’s happening so you can get the bigpicture, i recommend these. call our ministry and get those. we just ordered these here recently, there’slots more in our college class 103. evil men have already divided up the worldinto regions. and they got it all planned: they want to rule the world. </p><br /><p>their goal is: reduce the population to ahalf billion with a few of them as the elite which get to rule the world. there is a committee of three hundred thatbasically pull the strings. we can spend all day talking about that, butwe don’t have time tonight. they got their plans to rule the world, you know like pinkyand the brain: “what are we going to do today? we are going to take over the world! that’swhat we always do you know!†god is in heaven laughing about it. if you want to study someof the conspiracies, if you are into that kind of stuff, there are numerous conspiracies!get “the medusa file†or the “new american magazine: conspiracy†to see what is reallyhappening. we can spend a long time talking </p><br /><p>about that. there is a committee of 300 whoare really controlling and ‘pulling the strings.’ the illuminati: the top 13 illuminati bloodlines,the super rich, billionaires who want to rule the world. that will be for the ones who wantthe “red pill†only; for those interested in the matrix movies. what they do is theydevelop a crisis intentionally so that they can bring in their solution to the crisis.many events like the civil war, world war 1, the 1929 depression, they are intentionallycaused to make people come in and cooperate, whatever the reason may be. the 1929 depression was to make everybodybe given a social security number, that was the purpose of that! the cuban missile crisiswas intentionally done. the oklahoma city </p><br /><p>bombing was intentionally allowed to stopthe militia movement going on here in america. call ben partin, the air force explosives expert,he says that no truck bomb blew up that building! the pillars were sheared off, that was c4explosives wrapped around the pillars. many folks are convinced that the government wasinvolved in taking down the building over at oklahoma city and the same thing with thetwin tower bombings. get to the website: www.911inplacesite.com, has anyone seen the movie: “in plain sight,â€has anybody seen that? david rockefeller said, “we’re on the vergeof a global transformation. all we need is the right major crisis.†and the nations will accept the new worldorder. see, god has plans for the world, and </p><br /><p>so does satan. satan’s plan is, no people here or maybe justa few, and a one world government. the bible says, “perilous times shall come.â€if people are despisers of those that are good, christian’s will be absolutely hated. youcan already see the animosity against christians on tv. if there’s a bad guy in the movie, and he’san ax wielding person beating everybody up, it’s always somebody quoting bible verses.“vengeance is mine sayeth the lord,†while he’s out there killing people. </p><br /><p>they make the christians and preachers lookawful on tv. one of the groups to really watch in this plan of the new world order is fema.they have taken over my city since the hurricanes. there is just no question, they are in charge,alright just keep an eye on that group! george bush told the iraqi soldiers that they shoulddisobey if they are given orders to use poison gas or blow up oil wells. he said that afterthe war their would be judged. okay, american soldiers you took a vow to defend the constitution,against enemies foreign and domestic. if you get an order that goes against the constitution,you better disobey that order! you would say, “i will get court martialed,†yes probablyso. you do what is right okay! who is doing this? what is going on? and what do we doabout it? </p><br /><p>there are all kinds of people involved inthis plan towards a new world order, the united nations, the counsel of churches - if yougo to a church that is a member of that get out! the council on foreign relations (cfr),the trilateral commission, the bilderbergers, the imf (international monetary fund), theinternational bankers, the club of rome, communists, socialists, national education association(nea) - get out of that bunch if you are in it! now, aclu, the masonic lodge - most peoplein the masonic lodge don’t realize what they are in. they think they are in a do-gooders(good intentions) club and it won’t be until it is too late, when they realize, “wow, thisis a satanic organization!†general albert pike, 33rd degree mason, leader of all themasons years ago said, “that which we must </p><br /><p>say to the crowd is: we worship a god, butit is the god that one adores without superstition. to you sovereign grand inspectors general,we say this, that you may repeat it to the brethren of the 32nd, 31st and 30th degrees.the masonic religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintainedin the purity of the luciferian doctrine... yes lucifer is god...†“when the mason learnsthat te key to the warrior on the block is the proper application of the dynamo of livingpower, he has learned the mystery of his craft. the seething energies of lucifer are in hishands and before he may step onward and upward, he must prove his ability to properly handleenergy.†a good book on the masonic lodge, this one you can get from chick.com or getit from our ministry, if you call there we </p><br /><p>will get you some. excellent book on masonsand what they really are for. what should we do? real simple, exactly what jesus told us todo. he said, “go ye therefore, teach all nations, baptizing them.†you know, get people saved and teach themto go do the same. you realize jesus grew up in the middle ofthe roman empire? his country had been taken over. he didn’t spend one minute trying to changethe roman empire. he went after people; win souls. </p><br /><p>hosea said, “my people are destroyed for alack of knowledge.†what do we do? there are perilous times coming to this countryand to the world - real serious times. i think, probably, real soon. i’ll be reallyshocked if we make it five more years. i’m going to be surprised. what do we do? well what we need is some menand women who have the understanding to know what to do. what should we do? the bible says, “for thetransgression of the land, many are the princes thereof, but by a man of understanding and knowledgethe state thereof shall be prolonged.†i’ve </p><br /><p>got four grand-kids. i want to prolong the state, i want them tohave some freedom and peace to grow up in, like i had. what do i do? deuteronomy says, “take ye wise men in understanding.â€we need some people with understanding. solomon prayed and said, “give therefore thyservant an understanding heart to judge thy that i may discern between good and bad.â€do you want understanding? the bible says that abigail was a woman ofgood understanding. and she was beautiful, that don’t hurt you know, throw that thereto. they sent him men of understanding. ezra chapter8, </p><br /><p>“by the good hand of our god upon us theybrought us a man of understanding. the children of issachar, which were men whohad understanding of the times, to know what israel aught to do.†i wish we had some politicians that had understandingof the times to know what america ought to do. i don’t think we have too many. most of thepoliticians put their finger in the wind. “which are you blowing? which way is the wind blowing? i’ll lead.â€we need some statesmen, not politicians. do you know what politics is? “poly†meansmany and a “tick†a blood sucking animal. </p><br /><p>i think its time to get motivated folks. idon’t know what you’re doing, but it’s time to get really moving. we are rapidly running out of time. what dowe do? number one, you need to realize that god is in control. don’t get nervous, get busy, but don’t getnervous. for he’s the potter, we’re the clay. do what he says, simple. we should be as wiseas serpents and harmless as doves. be careful for nothing, full of care. don’tget nervous, just get busy. we should pray for those in authority. if you were praying for your senators, youwould know their names, wouldn’t you? </p><br /><p>we’re god’s children. it’s our job to obeyhim. preach the gospel. we’re suppose to be the salt of the earth.salt does a lot of interesting things. salt preserves; you should be a preservingforce in your community. salt irritates. if nobody is irritated with you, you are nota good christian. you say, “brother hovind, did you know there’sa thousand anti-hovind websites?†i know, isn’t it great? [audience laughs]we’re going for two thousand this year. you ought to be irritating somebody, or youaren’t doing it right. you should use your influence on other people. our local director of science curriculum,i called down there years ago when i was trying </p><br /><p>to change their curriculum in escambia county. she wasa raving evolutionist. she said, “mr. hovind, you are the only personwho calls in here and complains about the evolution in the textbooks.†i thought,“where’s everybody else?†there’s a hundred and twenty eight baptistchurches in escambia county, florida. what are they doing? we’re suppose to use our influence, men. youhear, “christians shouldn’t get into politics.†tell that to king david or king solomon. youshould teach the truth about creation. one of the greatest ministries available todayi think is a creation ministry. find something </p><br /><p>to do. people will sit and listen to a tape aboutdinosaurs or creation who will never come to church for any other reason. won’t theybrother? aren’t you into it (creation ministry) now? awesome! there are two great sermons in the books ofacts. in acts chapter two, peter preached on the day of pentecost, and he quoted scripture after scripture afterscripture. he’s talking to jews. that’s the way you talk to them. they want to be reasoned with from the scriptures.acts 17 they go to mars hill. </p><br /><p>he’s talking to a bunch of heathen that don’tknow anything about scripture and don’t care. paul didn’t quote one scripture in that wholesermon, acts 17. he said, “i want to talk to you about theunknown god, the creator of the universe, the god that made the heavens.†he used creation to win them. number nine,don’t get distracted. it’s to easy in this world, especially in america, to get distracted. how many have ever seenthese little mobiles you put over the crib? you wind it up and the kid lays there hypnotized.it’s so easy to get distracted. did you know that the average american watched1,500 hours of tv a year? </p><br /><p>that’s enough time to read your bible 22 times.i don’t think you have to read you bible all the time, but you ought to read it some. speaking ofwatching tv, solomon said, “i will set no wicked thing before my eyes.†do you put wicked things before your eyes? what if you made a rule around your housethat if you heard a cuss (filth) word on tv you were going toshut if off for two hours? what if you made a rule that said if you seesomebody that’s not modestly dressed, you were going to shut it off for two hours. </p><br /><p>if you see somebody drinking alcohol you goingto shut if off for two hours. how much would you watch? we can all cancelthat cable and we can support 45 more missionaries just out of this room. couldn’t we? the biblesays, “for the transgression of the land, many are the princes thereof.†do you know why we have so many bureaucrats,so many rules and regulations? we’re wicked. this is god’s judgment. all of this heavyhanded government is god’s judgment on our country. we deserve it. righteousness exalts a nation,but sin is a reproach to any people. here’s the solution. you want to help saveamerica? it’s real simple. here’s the solution. </p><br /><p>“if my people, which are called by my name,shall vote republican, join the militia, and store up survival foods.†[laughs] no quite what it says. “if my people, whichare called by my name, shall humble themselves.†hey dads, when was the last time your kidssaw you humble yourselves. when was the last time your kids saw you cometo the altar and pray for somebody. when was the last time your kids saw you prayfor anything. when was the last time your kids saw you say,“i’m sorry, i was wrong.†moms, when was the last time you humbled yourself.kids, when was the last time you humbled yourselves? when’s the last time you told your brother,“look brother, i’m sorry, i was wrong. forgive </p><br /><p>me.†when was the last time? humble themselves,and pray, and seek my face, and turn off their wicked tvs. no, “...turn from their wickedways. then will i hear from heaven, forgive theirsin, and heal their land.†you want god to straighten out this mess? he’ll do it; he’s waiting on us. we do ourpart, he’ll do his part. i like this story. when david came to deliverthe cheese and the raisins and stuff to the army. eliab, david’s older brother, said, “whatare you doing here? why’d you come down here? </p><br /><p>go back and feed the sheep!†and david said, “is there not a cause? brother,that big old philistine is out there cursing your god. what are you doing back here? go take hishead off. is there not a cause?†little david had come from taking care ofthe sheep, sees the big old giant and says, “somebody ought to shut him up! he’s out therecursing the god of israel.†eliab his big brother is yelling at him, “shutup brother, go back home, take care of the sheep. we’re the soldiers.†is there not a cause? what is your cause?what do you live for? </p><br /><p>there are thousands hacking at the branchesof evil, to only one who is striking at the root. what’s your cause? is this it: a ball? you just can’t wait toget home and watch the game. got to watch that three hundred pound gorillacarry the football down the cow pasture, run through the plumbing, get six points.wow! and the angels rejoiced! [audience laughs] “he that loveth silver shall not be satisfiedwith silver.†strange. the guy who’s third in the nation racing motorcyclesgot saved in my seminar up in connecticut. about a year later i was preaching up thereand he said, “hey brother hovind, let me take you to breakfasttomorrow. i want to tell you what’s been happening </p><br /><p>in my life. the lord has really changed me in the lastyear.†i said, “that’s great brother, let’s go.†he said, “i’ll let you test drive one of mybikes.†i said, “ok.†he took me to breakfast, afterwards he backedout of his trailer his honda 900 that had been blueprinted and stroked and bored and balancedand i’m not sure what all they did to it. i have a honda 250. he said, “try it.†i goton there and took off. i about broke my neck in first gear. </p><br /><p>i hit second gear. i was just about to dropit down to third when i glanced down and realized that i was going 90 mile per hourin second gear. it has six gears! i wound it down and brought it back. i was shaking like a leaf. i said, “how fastdoes it go?†he said, “i don’t know.†[audience laughs] guess what he wants? he wants a faster bike. people that love speedshall not be satisfied with speed. people that have 80 pairs of shoes, do youknow what they want? more shoes. people that have a big house, guess what theywant: a bigger house. people that have lots of money, guess whatthey want: more money. </p><br /><p>why does it take us a whole lifetime to figureout that the things on this earth do not satisfy? they won’t; they will never satisfy. theyjust won’t do it. did you know that if you spend $500 you canbuy a nice set of golf clubs. if you’re willing to practice for thousandsand thousands of hours, and you have to get the grip just right. this thumb and finger make a “v.†point thattoward the left should. this thumb and finger toward this shoulder. fingers laced or not laced, either one willwork. knees slightly bent, shoulders curled, club faced perpendicular to the ball. bendthe right elbow first, </p><br /><p>the left elbow shortly thereafter, at about15 degrees left elbow bent.) if you are willing to practice for thousandsof hours, and really dedicate yourself, someday you will be able to knock a ball intoa hole in the dirt. [audience laughs] and the angels rejoiced! i heard a story about the preacher who calledhis assistant. “i need you to preach for me this morning.i’m not feeling very well.†the preacher went golfing. you heard thatstory brother? the devil is up there talking to the lord. the devil said, “hey lord, see your preacherout there. he’s golfing on sunday morning.†</p><br /><p>the lord said, “yep, i see it.†the devil said, “what are you going to doabout it?†the lord said, “i’ll take care of it.†the preacher tees off and gets a hole in one.the devil said, “lord, what are you doing? i thought you were going to fix it?†the lordsaid, “i did; who’s he going to tell?†[audience i think we ought to quit worrying about thethings of this world. they’re all going to burn. it’s all going to burn. “if you’re risen with christ, seek those thingswhich are above. set your affection on things above. love notthe world, neither the things that are in </p><br /><p>if any man loves the world, the love of thefather is not in him. all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life, it’snot of the father, it’s of the world. the world passeth away.†it’s all going to be gone. it’s all goingto burn. do you know how much howard hughes left behind when he died? all of it, every penny! you’re going to dothe very same thing! don’t invest your life in things that aregoing to burn. the last thing we need to do, almost lastthing, listen for the trumpet. 1 thessalonians </p><br /><p>4, “the lord himself shall descend from heavenwith a shout. the voice of the archangel and the trump ofgod, and the dead in christ rise first.†southern baptist go first, but we’re goingnext. “and we which are alive and remain shall be caught together to meet the lord in the air.†it’s going tobe great. meet him in the clouds. number 11, win souls. find somebody you can win to christ. jesuswas born, did his whole ministry under roman control. </p><br /><p>paul got taken to prison under roman control.what did he do? he won prisoners to the lord, won the jailerto the lord; he won souls. “he that wins souls is wise.†the most important thing i think a christiancan do is right there. win souls. during the civil war, a big old country boysigned up to fight the yanks. “they come down here invading our country,i’m going to go fight them yanks.†he got his training, got his boot camp done,got his backpack and his rifle, and he was sent off to battle. he showed up and said, “reporting for dutysir? where’s the yanks?†</p><br /><p>the sergeant said, “son, the yanks are rightover there. they are dug in a trench, and we’re dug into a trench here. nobody is moving. we’re waiting for orders.your job son is to march in the trench right he said, “sergeant, i didn’t come to marchin no trench, i come to fight the yanks, and they are right over there. can i go fight them please?†he said, “noson, that’s not the way it works. you march in the trench, and when we get orders,then we attack.†he’s marching back and forth and getting madderby the minute. he said, “i didn’t come here to march in the mud. </p><br /><p>i came to fight the yanks, and they’re rightover there. how come i can’t go fight them?†finally he just couldn’t take it anymore.totally went berserk, he dropped everything, jumped out of the trench, and went screaming and yelling across no-man’sland, straight for the yankee’s trench - a one man rebel charge. the yanks were stunned. “who is this guy?â€nobody thought to shoot. he ran all the way across no-mans land, jumpedinto the yankee trench, and picked up the first yankee he saw, and knocked him out in one punch. he was acountry boy. he had been hauling hay. he’s </p><br /><p>hefty-duty. he picked up his prisoner and ran back forthe rebel trench. now nobody dared shoot. he got back into the rebel trench and allthe rebels gathered around and said, “what is that?†he said, “that’s a yankee.†they said, “wellwere did you get him?†he said, “i got him over yonder. there’s awhole bunch more over there.†he said, “you all could have had one if youhad wanted one.†you all could have had one if you had wanted one. you know, i think we’re going to get to heavenand some people are going to </p><br /><p>have a whole crowd around them of people thatthey influenced for the lord. they brought them to christ, they trainedthem, they got them going. some of you, you’re going to be there. you’re going to heaven, but there’s not goingto be anybody with you. none, zero. you’re going to walk up to somebody with abig crowd and say, “where did you get all of these?†“oh, i got them down yonder on the earth.you all could have had one if you had wanted one.†you just don’t want one bad enough do you?you’re really more interested in the weather </p><br /><p>channel than a neighbor going to heaven. “well i got tosee if it’s going to rain.†and what are you going to do about it if it is? you aren’t going to effect it any. what onearth are you doing for heaven’s sake? last thing i recommend you do is read thelast chapter, folks. keep in mind - we win! it’s going to get real bad. people say, “brotherhovind, do you think that the lord is coming before the great tribulation?†i hope so. i don’tknow. i couldn’t prove it from scripture. there are at least five different theoriesabout what happens in the end times: post-trib, </p><br /><p>mid-trib, pre-trib, all of that stuff. i’ve studied it as carefullyas i know how, and i can’t figure out. i’m sure hoping for pre-trib rapture. so werethe chinese christians for the last sixty years. so have the russian christians. so have theethiopian christians and the african christians over the last fifteen years. they’ve beenkilled by the tens of thousands. i don’t know. i hope we get out of here first, but i don’tthink i can prove that from scripture. either way, do what god told us to do: winsouls. jesus is coming one of these days. he is going to set up his new world order.satan has plans for a one world government, </p><br /><p>and it’s going to last about seven years accordingto revelation and daniel. he’s going to have one. then the lord is going to come and wipe itout and saying, “now i’m going to show you what the real kingdom looks like. and all of you that have been faithful, here,you can have this city and you can have the whole county. here, you canhave the whole state. you’ve been faithful son; i’m going to giveyou the whole country. you’re the boss.†are you going to be there? one of these daysthe lord is going to bruise satan under your </p><br /><p>feet. the grace of our lord jesus christ be withyou, amen. god wins in the end. “i saw the angel come down from heaven havingthe key to the bottomless pit and the great chain in his hand. he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpentwhich is called the devil and satan, and bound him a thousand years. cast him into the bottomless pit and shuthim up. and set a seal upon him that he should deceivethe nations no more, till the thousand years were finished. </p><br /><p>and i saw thrones and they that sat upon them,and judgment was given unto them. and i saw the souls of them that were beheadedfor the witness of jesus.†is that how it’s going to end for christians?maybe so. “they had not worshiped the beast, neither his image, neither received his mark upon their foreheadsor in their hands. and they lived and reigned with christ a thousandyears. the devil that had deceived them was castinto the lake of fire.†i can’t wait for that day. the spirit and the bride say come. let himthat heareth say come. let him that is athirst </p><br /><p>come. come. if you’re not a christian - come. letsomebody show you how to become one. if you’re one of god’s children and you wantto find something to do - come. ask him, “lord, what do you want? what cani do?†he’ll find something for you to do. “he which testifieth these things sayeth,‘surely i come quickly, amen.’ even so come, lord jesus.†if we can help, that’s what our ministry isfor. we want to bring people to christ - win souls.nothing else is going to matter. in a thousand years, nothing else is goingto matter. what are you doing for the lord </p><br /><p>with your life? we hope that you have enjoyed this video serieson: creation, evolution, and dinosaurs. much more important though than knowing allthe truth and facts about science is to know the truth about whether you’re going to heaven or not. ifyou’ve never trusted christ as your savior, let me explain quickly what you need to doto go to heaven. the bible says that we are all sinners. we’ve all broken god’s laws; we’ve disobeyedthe creator; and we’ve done wicked things. we’re sinners. </p><br /><p>some are worse than others, at least in man’seyes, but we’ve all broken god’s laws. and the bible says that you have to repent.the word “repent†means to turn. it actually means two things: to turn fromyour sin and to turn to god. god is looking for a change in your attitudewhere you said, “lord, i don’t want to do wrong anymore; i’m sorry i’ve offended you. i want to do right.†andyou turn from sin and you turn to god, and you say, “god, will you please forgive me? would yousave me?†the bible says in romans (3:23) chapter three,verse twenty three, that, </p><br /><p>“all have sinned and come short of the gloryof god.†you need to admit you’re a sinner. number two, the bible says in romans 6:23,“the wages of sin is death.†we deserve to die and go to hell because ofour sin. but, jesus died for you. he loves you. he wants you to come to heaven. and anybody that will ask him for free salvation,god will give you the gift eternal life. it says in romans 6:23, that it’s a free gift.and it says in romans 10:13, “whosoever shall call upon the name of thelord shall be saved.†if you would just call and say, “lord, i’ma sinner, would you please forgive me?†ask him; he’ll give you that free gift ofeternal life. why don’t you just pray with </p><br /><p>me right now, and you could receive christ as your savior.there are no magic words; god is looking at your heart. but if you could say this and mean it, godwould forgive you. just say, “dear lord jesus, i know that i’ma sinner. i’ve broken your laws. i’m sorry, please forgive me. please applyyour blood to my account. forgive my sins and take me to heaven. injesus’ name, amen.†the bible says, “if you call upon the lordyou shall be saved.†so if you’ve asked the lord to save you, he’spromised he’d save you. </p><br /><p>now your job is to grow: read your bible,pray, get involved in a good bible believing church and begin to growto be a good christian. thank you so much. call or write if we canbe any help at all. we’d love to help. for more information on the materials offeredby creation science evangelism, call us at: </p><br /><img align="center" src="" alt="sex education classes" /><br /><p>(850) 479-dino, that’s (850) 479-3466. or visit us online at www.drdino.com, that’s www.drdino.com end </p></div><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aV6gBzTTK8E?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Diana.Lhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957689766549596146noreply@blogger.com0