So I'm watching The View this morning; mostly because I had a kid-free house and am not used to watching anything that doesn't involve singing animated animals.  Anyway, they were discussing the UK's decision to encourage masturbation because of their high teen pregnancy rate.

The white christian chick was all 'that's all fine and dandy, but they should be focusing on things like waiting for commitment and emotional intimacy'.  That got me really irritated.

The problem with this POV is that it mixes up physical attraction with emotional attraction.  It's one of the reasons teen pregnancies happen!  An ignorant girl feels sexually attracted to some guy and talks herself into emotional attraction *because* girls are supposed to be in love with guys they sleep with!  Argh!

Instead, we need to teach girls (and boys) the *differences* between sexual attraction and emotional attraction.  And that it's all right to feel sexual attraction WITHOUT emotional attraction!  Teach them that when their heart goes 'pitter-patter' because a cute boy smiles at them, it's a physiological response and does NOT mean they are in love.   

• freakin' tired. day 1 of move done, wish I had friends nearby to help, but oh well.

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• back from beach. rained but the girls enjoyed it anyway.
• 5 min to finish coffee, then moving begins.

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• going out to buy Youngest a bathing suit.

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• attempting to set up digital terminal on tv. fingers crossed!

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• OMG. Cat Deeley's dress is awful! #sytycd

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• showed girls new townhouse; now they really can't wait to move!
• also, if changing locale to Iran, change timezone to Tehran. sorta RT'd. #iranelection
• RT Please spread the word: Keep using #IranElection hashtag. They're trying to disperse people. #IranElection
• RT HOW TO HELP IRANIANS if you are not Iranian emsenn.com/iran.php #iranelection

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• preschool is over; now what do I do with Youngest everyday?

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• Youngest decided to build pillow fort in bathroom. ick. can we say 'disinfectant'?

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• new hair straightning stuff awesome. feels weird not to have waves, tho.

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• woohoo, twitter is back up! too hot to do much, though.
• need to put together to-do list

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goodbye David Eddings, I'll remember you fondly. 

• another hot day, with smoke from a forest fire a province away...

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• has heavy hatred for heat!

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• need to get pic of new hairdo, lol.
• Youngest back from grandma's. Strange to suddenly have her back...
• if they only showed preschool cartoons in prisons, would the inmates become less violent, or more? hmmmm...

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