The Infamous Uni-Sex Restroom

[Galactus]

or the library...

[limitdeditionlayla]

Outdoor toilet is a brick shithouse. One with a toilet paper is a fancy brick shithouse haha.

[Galactus]

Does it have a padded seat? Padded seats are swanky.

[limitdeditionlayla]

hell no brother! Its really just a hole in the ground.

Australia is a modernised country but for lack of two things:

1. Production of nuclear weapons

2. Proper toilet plumbing

Difference is we have the capability to produce nuclear weapons...

[wayved]

All I know is that if I know im forced to do my business in a unisex bathroom im buying some polka dotted boxer shorts.

[phil]

I guess some of you people here qualifies ...


Abstinence message goes beyond teens


By Sharon Jayson, USA TODAY

The federal government's "no sex without marriage" message isn't just for kids anymore.

Now the government is targeting unmarried adults up to age 29 as part of its abstinence-only programs, which include millions of dollars in federal money that will be available to the states under revised federal grant guidelines for 2007.

The government says the change is a clarification. But critics say it's a clear signal of a more directed policy targeting the sexual behavior of adults.

"They've stepped over the line of common sense," said James Wagoner, president of Advocates for Youth, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit that supports sex education. "To be preaching abstinence when 90% of people are having sex is in essence to lose touch with reality. It's an ideological campaign. It has nothing to do with public health."

Abstinence education programs, which have focused on preteens and teens, teach that abstaining from sex is the only effective or acceptable method to prevent pregnancy or disease. They give no instruction on birth control or safe sex.

The National Center for Health Statistics says well over 90% of adults ages 20-29 have had sexual intercourse.

But Wade Horn, assistant secretary for children and families at the Department of Health and Human Services, said the revision is aimed at 19- to 29-year-olds because more unmarried women in that age group are having children.

Government data released last month show that 998,262 births in 2004 were to unmarried women 19-29, the ages with the most births to unmarried women.

"The message is 'It's better to wait until you're married to bear or father children,' " Horn said. "The only 100% effective way of getting there is abstinence."

The revised guidelines specify that states seeking grants are "to identify groups ... most likely to bear children out-of-wedlock, targeting adolescents and/or adults within the 12- through 29-year-old age range." Previous guidelines didn't mention targeting of an age group.

"We wanted to remind states they could use these funds not only to target adolescents," Horn said. "It's a reminder."

Last year, 46 states applied for the federal abstinence-education money, to fund programs in schools, neighborhood clubs and faith-based organizations.

Sarah Brown, director of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, says abstinence programs are among many messages that have helped reduce teen pregnancy rates. But "the notion that the federal government is supporting millions of dollars worth of messages to people who are grown adults about how to conduct their sex life is a very divisive policy," she says.

"We would oppose any program that stigmatizes unmarried people," adds Nicky Grist, executive director of the Alternatives to Marriage Project, a non-profit organization based in Brooklyn, N.Y., that advocates for the rights of unmarried people.

For last year's state grants, Congress appropriated $50 million. A similar amount is expected for 2007, but the money has not yet been allocated, according to the Administration for Children and Families.

"I think the program should talk about the problem with out-of- wedlock childbearing — not about your sex life," Brown says. "If you use contraception effectively and consistently, you will not be in the pool of out-of-wedlock births."

[Galactus]

phil said:

"They've stepped over the line of common sense," said James Wagoner, president of Advocates for Youth, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit that supports sex education. "To be preaching abstinence when 90% of people are having sex is in essence to lose touch with reality. It's an ideological campaign. It has nothing to do with public health."

I know you bolded it but this really sums it up.

[rockysigman]

So they're doing this to cut down on babies born out of wedlock...but still refuse to teach birth control. Yeah, that makes sense to somebody.

[KayJay]

Once a woman reaches legal maturity it's no business of the government's whether she has children out of wedlock or not. In fact, the whole "out of wedlock" syndrome is nothing more than trying to force certain "morals" on people. It's disgusting. To try to down someone or, worse, to deny anyone to have children simply because he/she has no marriage certificate is the ultimate stupidity IMHO. I suppose it would be preferred that these women marry, have a baby, get divorced, remarry, have a baby, get divorced, remarry...

Does it REALLY matter if they are married or not? Maybe they want children but don't want a husband! Why should they be looked down upon, shunned, or any other negative reaction.

If a man, regardless of age, fathers and child and raises that child without a wife he is considered "wonderful." It's just crazy for it to be different toward women who are unmarried.

Some of us need and/or want that legal piece of paper, some of us despise the thought, and some of us really could care less one way or the other.

Total and absolute idiocy. These "projects" do, however, employ people. HA!

[limitdeditionlayla]

Maybe the term "out of wedlock" is mistakenly used to refer specifically to young women who are not financially secure enough to be having babies?

But anyway, expecting humans to remain abstinent is expecting too much, imo. Not teaching safe sex/contraception methods is ridiculous. Not to mention pregnancy is far from the lone issue arising out of sexual activity. Get real.

[sisyphus]

I met God today. His skirt flew up over a vent and I saw a tattoo on his ass that revealed him as the man behind the curtain. It said “God” in an art noveau font.

Funny, I always thought God was a woman, but it seems he’s a transvestite.

Anyway, we stood next to each other at our respective urinals. His stream lasted a good 80 seconds longer than mine. I didn’t muster up the strength to talk to him until we hit the sinks.

I stuttered and asked “so you’re the big guy, eh?” He responded with a slap to the crotch and said “I Am that I Am.”

Then he gave me an envelope, and told me not to open it until I got home. He gave me a friendly punch to the shoulder and advised that I pay close attention to the rest of my day’s activities.

I went back to work and one of the guys from the office teased me about accepting love letters from errand boys.

When I got home I opened the letter and it detailed everything that had happened to me that day since my meeting with God, confirming the power His hairy little servant “Fate” has over me. I cried and vowed to break Fate’s neck the next day, and singe off all his little hairs with my bic.

~by Sisy dressed up as a single 24 year old male software technician

[wayved]

woah!

[phil]

God is from Scotland !

It could explain so much ...