With online videos titled “Horse Penis Virus” and “I Didn’t Spew,” a Planned Parenthood group in Oregon has taken the battle over sex education to brand new turf. The Web site TakeCareDownThere.org features video vignettes of young adults in pink and blue T-shirts enacting teenage sexual dilemmas. At crucial moments, a mustachioed middle-aged man interrupts the “teens” and offers sex education words of wisdom.
The site, run by Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette in Portland, Ore., is just one of several launched by local and national Planned Parenthood organizations that aim to bring sex education beyond classrooms and libraries and into media young adults use most. Following the April debut of “Take Care Down There,” Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Ohio launched “The A-Word” this summer, and the National Planned Parenthood league has maintained a long-standing sexual education resource called teenwire.org
Discussion Starters
1.) Planned Parenthood operates from an oposing ideology than do most Christian churches. Do you and your students find these videos offensive or effective in what they’re trying to achieve?
2.) Do you think sensational tactics are necessary to get teens’ attention about issues pertaining to sex?
3.) Within Scripture are numerous passages dealing with intimacy and maintaining appropriate boundaries in relationships, including those citing fornication (see
