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Texas Teenage Virgins

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16:32 / 12.01.04

Did anyone else watch this? I need to express my horror that such a place genuinely exists and really has real people really living there.

I felt very worried about the preacher dude. Speaking in tongues and shuddering young teenage virgin girls around to guarantee their purity. He was sinister.

Disturbing telly.

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Also, the town was called Lubbock, coincidentally the surname of the man found dead in Michael Barrymores swimming pool, terminated by the insertion of a huge implement in his rectum. Wyrd wyrld. Reminds me, for some reason, of the horrible fact that when some nutter was blowing shit up in England a couple of years back, targetting racial minorities and gay landmarks, he detonated a bomb in a gay pub in Old Compton Street. The only fatalities were the only two straight people in the whole pub, a couple.

Mr. and Mrs. Dyke

Very Wyrd Wyrld.

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18:52 / 12.01.04

Actually, the final death toll was three or four, depending on how you count; Mrs Dykes was pregnant. Her husband survived, but two other men - their best man and a friend - died. I'm afraid I don't recall whether anyone died in the other two attacks for which David Copeland was responsible, but I'm not sure this counts as 'wyrd wyrld' fodder.

07:52 / 13.01.04

[t/r]And for that matter, what's Stuart Lubbock got to do with teenaged virgins?[t/r]

I saw this open-mouthed too. I don't know why; it shouldn't be that shocking really should it? And the pastor/guidance-counsellor with his dirty toothbrushes was truly one of the most unsavoury characters I've seen in a while. But the teenagers themselves seemed well-adjusted, generally, and certainly more enthusiastic about the rich possibilities of sex, it seemed to me, then the jaded teens I knew. They certainly anticipated no small amount of awesomeness. And you've got to admire their self-discipline.

10:42 / 13.01.04

Admire? Pity perhaps.... Those poor guys!

I feel really sorry for those teenagers who bought into all this rubbish - it's not hard to see why I suppose. That guidance counsellor was very odd. The thing that summed it up for me was him being grilled by the faceless interveiwer (a la Jamie Oliver) about the direct correlation between his message and the rise in STDs and pregnancy - vs the mild mannered bearded guy from the clinic who was explaining to the kids that what they'd heard about condoms not preventing STDs being complete and utter bullcrap (I think he used a different word).

I think it's pretty odd that people are still equating virginity with purity. There seemed to be a deep underlying repression in those teens which had no healthy outlet. That can't be good; especially when it's heralded as true, pure, right etc.

12:56 / 13.01.04

One of the bits that annoyed me was after that 15 year old girl signed the virginity pledge. Her family were preparing a nice meal to celebrate and her mother was saying how proud of her daughter she was but added that if her daughter broke the pledge she would not disown her and would be supportive to her. At which point her daughter gives her loads of grief about not trusting her (understandable since she is 15) but then so does her husband! I'm sorry, but this Mum has just told her daughter that she can rely on her for support regardless of what happens in the future and the father is giving her grief over it!

I did think the sex lessons for the couple who were getting married seemed quite good though.

Th worst thing that those kids were being taught was that condoms didn't work and I presume by the pregnancy and STD rates that they don't bother using them for that reason. No-one would bother wearing a condom if they thought it didn't work!

Scary stuff.