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Presenters assured a group of about 100 children and parents that in order to avoid drugs, sexual assault, sex trafficking, gangs and prostitution, all they had to do was wait until marriage to have sex.
The girls in the audience watched pre-recorded interviews with a pimp and prostitutes and saw gruesome images of a woman who lost her limbs in a methamphetamine lab explosion and of a man whose face was chewed off by a meth user.
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The Sun asked Coward if she had "Toe Tag Monologues" perform at the event to warn that women would risk death if they engage in premarital sex. Coward made it very clear that she felt sex could lead to drugs and death.
"Yeah, because thats whats happening," she responded.
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Laura Deitsch, a health educator who attended the event, told the Sun that the presentation given by uniformed police officers may have been confusing for the children.
I wonder if anybody came away with the idea that premarital sex is criminal, she said.
WHA?
shenmue
(38,506 posts)pipoman
(16,038 posts)madness is about off the table?
ALBliberal
(2,342 posts)I thought of the same thing when I saw this post! The Silver City NM police department showed it to our 9th grade class in 1977. They did say it was a bit "dated". Disrespectful laughter ensued!
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)In the late 90s, the cop who ran the DARE program was fired. For testing dirty for marijuana.
2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)they didn't even try this bullshit on the guys?
Way to make these girls scared to death of sex. Oh but not the boys. Boys will be boys, after all.
We are one screwed up fucking country.
Initech
(100,081 posts)Just saying.
rudolph the red
(666 posts)Nevernose
(13,081 posts)Coward told the Sun that the Las Vegas Police Department did not fund the event, and that any officers that participated did so on their own time. The event was funded with donations from community organizations. The Sun also noted that "speakers didnt make a large effort to correlate premarital sex and the horrors relayed in their presentations." The Southern Nevada Health District was also at the event offering condoms and STI testing.
It was a couple of black cops working with Victory Outreach, an organization that does a lot of work in the African American community and, despite being seriously old-school, fundamentalist Christian, devotes the entirety of their ministry to things like keeping people off drugs, taking care of the homeless, trying to get street prostitutes out of the life, etc.
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)and there are better ways to get the message across than terrorizing children with this spit-in-a-cup, sex-makes-you-bad crap.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)The OP made it seem like it was Metro in its entirety, when in actuality it was one boneheaded cop.
And since usually in this town I'm reading about police brutality, it's refreshing to at least see a cop trying to make a difference instead of total dehumanization.
Maybe someone will call Victory Outreach and suggest that the next time they have an educational outreach, they use experienced, trained educators instead of people working far outside their realm of expertise.
951-Riverside
(7,234 posts)Saturday, officers sponsored a presentation at a local church that portrayed women sucked into drugs and prostitution and dying of sexually transmitted diseases and overdoses because they were promiscuous.
One community group says the message is inappropriate. Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada or PLAN believes Metro is trying to protect girls from what officers see every day: drugs, prostitution and crime.
They say the presentation left girls with no real information and nothing but fear.
The presentation included actresses zipped into body bags with one message: sex before marriage can lead to life-altering consequences.
At the Choose Purity event, Metro officers said promoting safe sex is not enough.
"Safe sex, we know a lot of things can happen. The condom can break, anything, or maybe he doesn't even have a condom on and he says he does, but if you're actually taking the vow to be pure, then you don't have to worry about nothing happening like that," Ofc. Regina Coward said.
http://www.8newsnow.com/story/25435213/metro-police-sponsored-purity-event-stirs-up-controversy
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)I guess we'll all just have to go to next year's purity event and see for ourselves. Come on, it'll be fun!
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)tkmorris
(11,138 posts)I swear this sounds like a DirecTV commercial.