This is a guest post written by Holly of Menstrual Poetry.

Knowledge is power and power can do so, so much to empower people in order for them to go on and live not only healthy lives, but fulfilled and completely hardcore kick ass lives that go on to empower other people to better themselves. Some people see this and go on to help and empower other people and give them inspiration and the motivation that makes their life more than what they could ever dream. Some people see this and go on to spread their skewed moral propaganda and terrify kids.

Pam Stenzel is a speaker for adolescents on the topic of sex, although really, she is an abstinence educator. When you send your kids to school, make damn sure they aren’t seeing Pam Stenzel speak. A fun and witty speaker that worked as a counselor in a crisis pregnancy center for 9 years, she has a way of enchanting not only kids, but even some adults, luring them in and while she isn’t smacking you over the head with her moral and religious views, she sneaks them in subtly making what she does even more dangerous. If you don’t know much about crisis pregnancy centers, I highly recommend you check out these posts: The Frightening Truth About Crisis Pregnancy Centers and Crisis Pregnancy Centers Lie

In the video below, Pam Stenzel tells kids that birth control pills could kill them and that parents who put their daughters on birth control don’t care about them. She also tells kids that abortion makes girls anorexic, depressed and suicidal.

This woman clearly has no right to speak to adolescents, since she does nothing but use scare tactics as a form of “education” and she most definitely has no right to call herself an educator. The effective way to cut down on teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease is to give your kids the facts and be completely honest. When you use scare tactics as a form of warning your children not to do something, they learn absolutely nothing from that and go on to see for themselves.

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This is a guest post written by Holly of Menstrual Poetry.

A woman’s sexual credibility is measured in a variety of ways. From society’s standpoint, not one way a woman’s sexual credibility is measured has anything to do with how she feels about herself.

The “I have a hot grandma” standpoint, as popularly seen in The 40 Year Old Virgin does not exist when it comes to “real life.” Here, in the real world, a woman who is seen as fuckable or what most men fantasize about crawling on top of at night is measured purely based on what the media has told us is considered sexy–and here’s a hint: grandmothers aren’t it.

While doing some random blog reading, which I typically fill up to two or three hours of my day with every day, I came across the White Apricot blog where I read:

“I knit alone in the privacy of my home after everyone is in bed. Yes, my husband knows, but I try not to flaunt it in front of him due to the fact that I think it diminishes my sexual credibility.”

The above statement alone shows just how bad of a grip the media has over us as a whole; it has gotten to the point where women believe that a hobby (and fantastic stress reliever, so I’ve been told) cannot under any circumstances be sexy.

While looking through lingerie websites I have also stumbled across sexy “business women” outfits. This shows us that while men may think a woman dressed in a business suit could be sexy, it must fall within the confines of the male libido–Meaning incredibly short skirt, fishnet stockings, crotchless panties, a white shirt that must show an adequate amount of cleavage, a four inch stiletto heel–and it all must be able to come off as quickly as possible in order to show a woman’s size 2 figure with breasts that simply defy mother nature and look nothing short of like inflatable balloons.

So what makes a woman “fuckable”? What makes a man’s jaw drop when he sees a woman? That answer is changing all the time and it’s up to the media to condition us and tell us what we should look like.

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