The Writing on the Wall

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The truth will out. One way or another. This time it outed itself in the form of a desperate note on a bathroom-stall door. Black-ink panic against a backdrop of beige-paint normalcy. “Do you guys make out with your boyfriends? What should I do?” read one, next to, “My boyfriend and I had sex, but thank God I did not get pregnant. Buy a pregnancy test and avoid it if you can.” Upon closer inspection, the door was covered in messages in various states of legibility, all asking for or offering advice about sex, men, and social acceptance. Marriage, love, babies. Sex Ed 101 on the bathroom door. I was offended when my liberal Yankee-self moved to Virginia and learned that my brother’s school teaches exclusively “Abstinence-Only” sex education, a practice I think is extremely unsafe no matter what your intention concerning personal activity.

Here, it’s not just abstinence only that’s taught, but it’s impure to think about if one is not married. So of course everyone does and discusses it when circumstances permit.

For these girls, I guess that means seeking comfort in anonymous publicity.

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