“I was a teenager, we were pretty much fully indoctrinated, thanks to sexual scare tactics. I remember so many public-health commercials with a B-actor in a fake alley background warning us to use protection or telling us the only real safe choice was abstinence. We were highly frightened of sex from day one. There was no free-swinging '90s.” RealUseRememberChoicesActorsSexSafeProtectionBackgroundsThanksTeenagerFakeFrightenedScareWarningTacticsAlleysPublic HealthAbstinenceScare Tactics Author:Michael Stipe
“I was vegetarian, trying to eat from fast-food restaurants without meat. I didn't know how to eat properly and I was starving. I was adrenalized to the eyeballs from performing. I was afraid that I was sick with AIDS. We were playing five shows a week. I even went through a period of abstinence where I didn't drink and stopped having sex. Which is crazy. Maybe I'm answering too many questions at once here, but this is where my mind was at the age of 25.” KnowsTryingMindShowsAgeSexKnow HowFiveWeekCrazyPeriodsDrinkSickAidsPerformingMeatRestaurantsVegetarianStarvingFast FoodAbstinenceHaving SexEyeballsFast Food Restaurants Author:Michael Stipe
“The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous. To me, vampires are sex. I don't get a vampire story about abstinence. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.” IdeasStoriesCareSchoolSexStudentsHigh SchoolDon't CareRidiculousVampireI Don't CareIrritatingAbstinenceUninformedHigh School Students Author:Alan Ball
“All we are asking for is balance. I would like to think that I could walk into a public library and find not only works by Gloria Steinem but also those of Phyllis Schlafly. I would like to think a teenager could be taught in sex education that a serious alternative to abortion is teenage abstinence, or should pregnancy occur, that adoption might be preferable. I am not trying, as the ad says, to shove religion down anyone's throat. But I do think everyone has a right, and that the Christian voice is being chocked off.” ThinkingShouldTryingMightChristianSexVoiceWalksTaughtSeriousBalanceAskingLibraryAlternativesTeenagerAbortionPregnancyThroatAdsAdoptionTeenageAbstinencePublic LibrarySex EducationGloria Author:Cal Thomas