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New epidemic hits college campuses: Sex fairs
by Joey Kerlin
Released March 30, 2007
Commentary by Joey Kerlin
When
we are children, our parents instruct us about life. Why the grass is green. How
to shop for groceries. Why we have to pay taxes. How to drive a car. But of all
the things that parents teach their children, instilling in them a sense of
morality is the most important.
But
there comes a day in a child's life which puts all those years of instruction to
a test; a day when parents must simply have faith that they have taught their
children well enough. This is the day that children leave home and go to
college. In college, these young adults no longer have the immediate example of
their parents to witness. And almost immediately, college students are
approached by people offering all kinds of opportunities. Clubs to join.
Protests to attend. Sports to participate in. Sadly, many of the things they
will be approached with will not be so wholesome.
How
unwholesome? Here's just one example: "Live music! Guest speakers, games, sex
toys, condoms, lube and a raffle for great prizes!"
This
is the kind of message you might expect from an advertisement for the premier of
a pornographic film at a tawdry theater in the bad part of town. One would
assume that an advertisement for a sex fair decorated with phallic balloons and
condom roses is a promotion for a seedy night club or perhaps a porn shop.
However,
these statements weren't obtained from the red light district of town, but
instead from fliers at college campuses across the nation. The fliers advertise
educational fairs and "safe sex" benefits organized by a group that claims to be
a health care organization. These events and activities are brought to our
children's campuses by none other than America's number one abortion provider,
Planned Parenthood.
On
Valentine's Day at Tufts University, Planned Parenthood encouraged students to
mark on a map the places in which they have had sex. A similar map asked
students, "Where have you touched yourself at Tufts?" Several games were also
featured, including a phallic ring toss and a station for students to decorate
"suggestively-shaped cookies."
The
Planned Parenthood group at Colorado State University ran an event that, as the
school's newspaper reported, featured a "throng of tables covered in condoms,
candy and other bedroom fare." One table prominently featured whips and
handcuffs and free sex toys were given out as prizes.
Even
more recently, at the University of Central Florida, Planned Parenthood ran an
event that was sponsored by sex toy manufacturers and pornography shops. Gift
bags were filled with free condoms, sexual lubricants and coupons from these
businesses. The event featured games such as vibrator races.
As
sex fairs continue to spread across college campuses, rates of abortion and
sexually transmitted disease continue to increase. Currently 52 percent of women
in the United States who abort their children are younger than 25. Nearly half
of all new STD diagnoses in the country involve young people ages 14-24. Among
sexually experienced people in their twenties, 31 percent of men and 20 percent
of women had more than one sexual partner in the past year alone. If this
behavior continues, the ramifications are dire.
So
why does Planned Parenthood go to college campuses to instruct students about
sexual activity, sex toys and masturbation? What does any of this kind of
behavior have to do with Planned Parenthood's health care goals? The answer is:
Nothing. Clearly, teaching such behavior has nothing to do with health or
safety. This is all part of Planned Parenthood's marketing program. According to
its own reports, 70 percent of Planned Parenthood's customer base is composed of
people 25 or younger. Planned Parenthood knows that it can't sell its
contraceptives or abortions unless people are engaging in uninhibited sexual
activity.
The
web site for the school newspaper of Colorado State University featured a poll
for students that asked, "What do you hope to experience most on spring break?"
More than half of the students who replied said they were hoping to have sex.
This poll was taken only one week after Planned Parenthood hosted a sex fair on
the campus. It seems the marketing campaign is working like a charm.
Not
only is Planned Parenthood allowed to market its business by pushing sex on
campus, but schools are using tuition and student fee money to pay it to do so.
Just last year, Virginia Commonwealth University funded Planned Parenthood's VOX
college group to the tune of over $18,000, the fourth highest funding level for
non-student government organizations on the campus.
Many
people think Planned Parenthood is a benevolent health care organization that is
just interested in teaching "medically accurate" sex education. In reality,
Planned Parenthood is a business that will lie and exploit our nation's young
people just as long as it can continue to pay its administrators six-figure
salaries and make millions of dollars in profit every year. It is time that the
truth be revealed and that people stop believing its lies.
It
is a parent's role to protect; when children are in grade school, one of a
parent's biggest fears is that some pervert may exploit the innocence of a
child. And yet this is exactly what is going on at colleges every year.
However,
Planned Parenthood has its VOX chapters on over 200 college campuses across the
country. Protecting students from this organization is a bigger job than one set
of parents can accomplish. It is a job for all of us. College students will not
be safe from these sexual predators until Planned Parenthood is no longer able
to ply its sex trade.
Now
is the time for:
- Parents
of college students to alert school administrators that they do not want Planned
Parenthood invited onto the campus, much less funded
- College
students, themselves, to publicly oppose the influence of Planned Parenthood by
protesting its events and choosing to live chaste lives
- Citizens
in every community to oppose government funding of Planned Parenthood
- Educators
to stop believing the lies of so-called medically accurate sex education and
rise up to expose Planned Parenthood for what it is
- The
entire Christian community to pray for the total demise of Planned Parenthood.
It
is only by all of us working together that we can hope to stop Planned
Parenthood. We must begin today before more of our nation's innocence is lost.
Release issued: 30 Mar 07
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