I really love how the heads are severed from the bodies.
Philip | 03.16.05 - 2:26 am | #

At first glance, I thought somebody hacked your site and swapped one of your "glamour photos";) with some kind of weird pòrn toon.

...especially when the mouse cursor turned into an active link on it.

Planned Parenthood has a knack for outdoing themselves. Their promotion is getting so explicit, even Linda Lovelace would have a hard time swallowing it.
P.R. | 03.16.05 - 4:30 am | #

Oh but read this:

"Fertility Awareness Methods

Reasons not usually recommended for teens —

* These methods work best for women with very regular periods — teen women often have irregular periods.
* Their partners may not wish to cooperate in using this method.
* A teen's relationship may not be stable or committed enough to develop the trust and cooperation necessary for effective use of this method.
* It may take 6-12 months of training and record keeping before a couple can try to use the method. Teens may not be that patient."

They have just outlined why teenagers shouldn't be having sex. Their body is still getting settled, their partners may be uncooperative, unstable and uncommitted and they don't have the patience and maturity. Sheesh.

- shakes head -
Tess | 03.16.05 - 5:32 am | #

"As if teens really needed anyone to teach them these things. As if a teen doing all of those things would even bother to stop before crossing the finish line of intercourse."

Right on one, wrong on the other, Dawn. True, nobody really needs to be taught how to cyber. It's actually fairly common, and despite your sarcasm, kids probably are having cybersex anyway. And maybe it is a good idea to tell them how to do it "safely" -- though I'm at a loss to see how it could become dangerous unless it went further than the 'net.

As far as sentence two goes, of course a teen doing all of those things would never make it to intercourse -- after all, cyber sex is little more than masturbation!
Wes | Homepage | 03.16.05 - 6:19 am | #

"TEENwire"? Since when are six-year olds considered teens- altho this is not appropriate for teens, either, and our tax dollars fund this? This must be a dream come true for the porno-pervert left... this could not possibly be okayed by responsible educators. We teach our kids to refrain from perverts, whether on the computer or elsewhere. Once again, I'll be sending an email to the powers that be. Thank you, Dawn, for this service.
Faith | 03.16.05 - 9:04 am | #

Thank you, Dawn. It doesn't occur to many of us who try to keep our eyes and hearts modest while using the internet that these things exist, and your bringing them out here in the sunlight is a real service. I don't have children to protect, but I can pray for those children around me.

It would be so easy for you to seek these things out and show them to us in the wrong spirit, one of voyeurism, but you're doing it just right.

Keep it up, but wash your hands thoroughly after touching these nasties. Pass the spiritual Purell.
Therese Z | Homepage | 03.16.05 - 9:40 am | #

Your post is headline material and should be the main story in all publications that parents read! It's so outrageous that PP's activities are hidden and never reported on by the mainstream media!

Thanks again for publicizing this, Dawn.
Sagapocristo | 03.16.05 - 10:23 am | #

First, in response to Wes's comment about cybersex ("It's actually fairly common, and despite your sarcasm, kids probably are having cybersex anyway."): I don't know where you get your information from, but I (a 19-year-old) know of not even one person who has had cybersex. About 70% of my friends even have access to chat rooms, and of that group, there *might* be 40% who have even heard of the term 'cybersex'. Of that group, none would participate.

Some people still hold traditional values and objective truth as a higher standard by which they judge their actions. It is not right to participate in cybersex, and many people actually have the ability to restrain themselves when it comes to these temptations.

What Planned Parenthood continually does utterly amazes and sickens me.
Jeff | Homepage | 03.16.05 - 10:30 am | #

As if a teen doing all of those things would even bother to stop before crossing the finish line of intercourse.

I was doing many of those things, and didn't have intercourse until I got married. So there's at least one teen who did stop before crossing the finish line. Actually, make that two--my spouse did the same.
Another Guest | Homepage | 03.16.05 - 11:39 am | #

Wow! When I was a kid all we had was the real thing. And that was easy to avoid. It was called female rejection. There is a lot to be said for this internet thing.
Michael | Homepage | 03.16.05 - 12:16 pm | #

Did any of you click on the "emergency contraception" link?

This is part of what you "learn" from that page:
"They [emergency contraception pills] are not recommended as a regular form of
birth control - they are for emergencies,
like if a condom breaks or
partners have unprotected intercourse."

OK - so "partners" having "unprotected intercourse" now constitutes an emergency! They don't even use the usual rape and/or incest qualifiers. "Oh no! This is an emergency! Quick get the emergency birth control!"

This is a glaring example of the corrupted mentality that is promoted by PP.
MarkD | Homepage | 03.16.05 - 12:47 pm | #

Regarding Dawn's end note: You also need to contact your representatives in state, county, and city government. Some of the taxpayer funding is federal block grant money that comes to Planned Parenthood via city and county governments. It's up to local officials -- city councilors, county legislators, or whatever they're called where you live -- to decide whether PP will get any of the money.

Last year, a local PP branch received over $500,000 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) money from Broward County, Florida, for what was billed as a "behavioral health program," but which involved teens doing door-to-door abortion advocacy and protesting a visit by President Bush. Dawn wrote about it here, and I dug up some additional info here. I assume that the Broward County grant to PP had the support of the Broward County Commissioners. PP tried for CDBG money here in Tulsa, but a pro-life majority on the Council blocked it.

As we've seen with the Terri Schiavo case, there are plenty of reasons for pro-life voters to keep a close eye on local politics. The judge who has sentenced Terri to death, the sheriff and DA who won't intervene on Terri's behalf, the legislators who recategorized food and water as "life-extending treatment" -- they're all elected local officials, and they need to be held to account.
Michael Bates | Homepage | 03.16.05 - 1:18 pm | #

Nothing astonishes me anymore.

Has anyone at Planned Parenthood noticed that many state police departments have special task forces to investigate and prosecute people who use the Internet to prey sexually on teenagers? How could this possibly be a good idea?

I'm glad that a few people who decided to 'experiment' stopped at actually doing the horizontal mambo. Be honest and think about it - does indulgence make it any easier when it's time to stop?

The answer, from Planned Parenthood's own mouth, is no - in fact it is the reason they want to teach teens all of this stuff in the first place. According to PP abstinence is unnatural and unrealistic; sex is inevitable. They then give advice designed to make their conclusion inevitable, and to profit from the process.

This sort of behavior cost the tobacco industry billions of dollars in damages. PP are pushers creating a need, nothing more, and are contemptible in the extreme.
Nightfly | Homepage | 03.16.05 - 5:07 pm | #

Here's a question for Dawn, who might know better than anyone...

How does PP market their Teenwire page? Do they buy advertising? If so, where?

Do they try and promote themselves through schools or community organizations?

If so, do they highlight stuff like this?

My impression is that they wouldn't want anything like this to be seen by parents, for sure. I guess what I'm getting at is, how do they reach kids to promote their existence if they don't go through adult gatekeepers- whether it's parents or teachers?

Is it merely done through google clicking? Kids find Teenwire just through random searching and word-of-mouth linking from friends?
gormuu | Homepage | 03.16.05 - 6:55 pm | #

One more thing...remember when Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders held court on "possibly teaching masturbation" to children in public schools?

That laughable moment in history seems so long ago....
gormuu | Homepage | 03.16.05 - 6:57 pm | #

On a whim, I decided to look at Planned Parenthood's official website. They are really treading on thin ice. Check out this page:

http://www.plannedparenthood.org...n- extremism.xml

At the bottom they have a link: TERRORIST and extremist organizations. The link shows a list of organizations like the Christian Coalition, Concerned Women for America, the Family Research Council, and the Eagle Forum.

I'd argue that it's a classic case of libel to call these organizations "terrorist organizations." Any one of those groups could probably sue PP for libel if it didn't change its terminology. Calling someone a terrorist organization might even be per-se libel in some states. Oh, the money that these groups could collect...
Sydney Carton | 03.16.05 - 7:22 pm | #

Planned Parenthood as a terrorist organization just popped in to my head. Especially since they have the higest body count of any terrorist organization in the world. Keep smacking these organizations that are destroying our country from the communist rooted ACLU to PP and NAMBLA. Dawn you are a heroine to me.
Alnot | Homepage | 03.16.05 - 7:59 pm | #

Gormuu, Planned Parenthood promotes Teenwire heavily through its national push for "comprehensive sexual education." For example, PP gets school boards to allow its educators into public schools, where they encourage kids to use Teenwire as a resource. Their main Web site, plannedparenthood.org, encourages parents to send their teens to Teenwire as a source for answers to questions the parents are unable or unwilling to answer themselves. They do not play up the perv angle of Teenwire at all.
Dawn Eden | Homepage | 03.16.05 - 11:10 pm | #

"They do not play up the perv angle of Teenwire at all."

That being the case, I don't think they're marketing their product effectively enough! Perhaps we could raise some money, sort of as an outreach program, to develop advertising materials that really gets the nitty gritty of their message out to the parents and teachers they're trying to reach!

If we combine our resources with the marketing techniques PP is already putting into use, just think- we could get the comprehensive message of Planned Parenthood out there in the hands of people that don't even know the full extent of resources they have to offer!!!

Ha ha...

I'm serious, Dawn. In my former life as a person who didn't care about these kinds of things, I was interested in dating a girl who really wanted to work for Planned Parenthood. To be honest, I really had no idea what they stood for beyond educating people about...umm...planning to be a parent? To my naive mind, that meant teaching people strategies on being a good parent, with a side of pro-abortion activism to go with it.

So her goal wasn't a deal breaker to me. I'm glad she didn't want to be my girlfriend, now! What I've learned through your website has made me mad as hell, Dawn! It's there for everyone to see! Whatever noble results PP's Teenwire claims to want to achieve, it's nothing but an agent of sexualization of America's youth. It appears to want to subvert the power of the very parents their name implies they want to empower!

This is disgusting, and if something's not done soon, this kind of gutter-level approach to civilized behavior is going to seep into public school curriculums under the cover of darkness and we won't be able to turn back the tide.

What can we do to publicize this better? The REAL Planned Parenthood needs to have a very bright light shone on it. If mainstream America gets a whiff of what they're up to, I have to believe they won't last long.
gormuu | Homepage | 03.17.05 - 12:15 am | #

Dawn,

Many continued thanks for keeping a watchful eye on these idiots.

My sister-in-law has a teen who was unfortunate enough to have been stalked because of information she stupidly gave out in a chat room. So I know full-well how dangerous the whole notion of "cyber sex" is.

The emotional dangers of becoming addicted to porn aside (something else I am all too familiar with), I can't imagine the stupidity involved in making the decision to encourage teens to seek out chat room partners for sex fantasies. It just makes me want to go and break something.
Mike | Homepage | 03.17.05 - 5:58 pm | #

It just gets better: http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/0...s.ap/ index.html
Cheryl | 03.18.05 - 7:04 pm | #