SEX EDUCATION | 2006-01-12
As Peter says in the article named "Peter" below, it is amazing where your mind goes when you are in a company which is exchanging real thoughts.
A mind is indeed a terrible thing to waste, and when you don't think and express your thoughts here you are wasting mine.
So doing the last article directly below this one made me start thinking about a true Whitakerism.
As I say, a True Whitakerism comes from thinking about a point that is so overwhelmingly obvious thatno one else ever gives it any thought.
The theory behind Sex Education is that if children know all about sex at an early age, they will be able to handle it better. Sex Education is said to be the solution to our spiraling rates of rape and illegitimacy.
It finally occurred to me that there IS a population in America that knows all about sex and have practiced it almost since the day they were physically capable of doing so.
This population consists of the vast majority of what we call "African-Americans."
It must be worth getting bused all the way across town for the average black kid to hear some sex education teacher theorize about sex.
I remember when I worked in a prison that a major source of amusement was the Prison Psychologist.
This guy had a master's degree and he honestly believed that prisoners were nice people trapped by the System.
So he believed every word they said.
Prisoners would go see the psychiatrist just to tell people everybody, including me, about the what this guy actually BELIEVED.
Another Whitakerism: prisoners who have commited violent crimes also tend to LIE.
There's not a lot to do in prison. So prisoners would think about what to tell the prison psychologist taht would make a good story.
One trip to the psychologist after the prisoner had come up with some things nobody could possibly listen to without laughing and dropping on the terminally sympathetic psychologist gave the rest of the population a great laugh for days.
Prisoners would COMPETE to seeif there were any limits to this guy's credulity.
So the ghetto kids being bused home from a Sex Education class must have laughed their backsides off after Sex Education. The teacher with all the degrees could have learned a lot from them, but of course people with degrees are immunized against learning anything from anybody.
Naturally if the theory of sex education is true, the African-American population would already have solved the problems of rape and illegitimacy.
The prison psychologist and the sex education specialist probably have some statistics that prove they have.