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Conservatives railed against Planned Parenthood after it released a sex education<\/a> video that claimed virginity is a \u201cmade up concept.\u201d The video features a woman dressed as a schoolteacher in a classroom and is entitled \u201cWhat is Virginity?\u201d The video opens with the woman announcing, \u201cVirginity! What is it? And what\u2019s the big deal about \u2018losing\u2019 it?\u201d She then takes a dig at the concept. \u201cLet me cut right to the chase – virginity is a completely made-up concept. It’s a term that was created simply to control and shame people -mainly women.\u201d She states that virginity \u201cisn\u2019t a real thing\u201d by medical standards and that the definition of \u201cvirgin\u201d as someone who has never had sex is \u201cnot as simple as it seems.\u201d She also claims the definition of virginity is \u201cwhack\u201d because \u201csex means different things to different people.\u201d<\/p>\n

The video then goes on to claim that the current definition of sex as \u201cpenetration\u201d leaves out queer people, listing a variety of sexual acts someone may partake in, as well as some people being forced or pressured into sexual activity. \u201cThere is also a double standard on who carries the burden of virginity. Society can put pressure on men for not having sex at the exact same time that they shame women for having it,\u201d the woman adds. She then dismisses the idea of virginity entirely by announcing \u201cIt\u2019s time to throw away the notion of \u2018losing your virginity!\u2019 What if instead of \u2018losing\u2019 something we reframe it as \u2018gaining?\u2019 Because, the truth is, when we make our own decision to become sexually active, we aren’t setting ourselves up to lose anything at all! We hope we are gaining things like intimacy, self insight , pleasure, and empowerment.\u201d The ultimate definer of sex and virginity, according to Planned Parenthood? \u201cYOU. You get to decide and define what sex – and virginity- mean for you.\u201d The video ends (after a graphic description of various sex acts someone might choose to engage in) with the final thought that, \u201cChoosing to have sex – when, what kind, where, and who with – is something that only you get to define.\u201d<\/p>\n

The video received heavy pushback from Christian conservatives, with Christian satire site Babylon Bee\u2019s managing editor, Joel Berry, calling it<\/a> \u201cRepulsive in more ways than I can count.\u201d Allie Beth Stuckey, podcast host of \u201cRelatable\u201d accused Planned Parenthood of wanting to \u201csexualize children.\u201d \u201cOne fun thing progressives like to do is to pretend that concrete ideas – like sex and virginity, male and female – are abstract and flexible. The reason they\u2019re doing that here is to trivialize sex,\u201d she wrote on X<\/a>. She stated the purpose was to make sex \u201cno bigger deal than making out\u201d and that \u201cThey want kids to think virginity isn\u2019t real so they\u2019ll never try to protect it.\u201d She stated Planned Parenthood wants to sexualize children because, \u201cthey\u2019ll be more likely to be both sexually confused and sexually promiscuous, because people in both these categories a) make Planned Parenthood the big bucks and b) join the ranks of progressive activism.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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