Thursday, November 20, 2008

101 Words: Virtous Reality

Virtuous Reality. That’s the name of the ‘abstinence only’ sex ed. program being taught in our school system … being taught to my daughter. Clever title.

Every night she “interviews” me.

“What did you think LOVE was when you were a teenager?”
“What do you think is the difference between LOVE and infatuation?”

She records my answers.

Infatuation is a word that has come up every day over the last week.

Can you really squash teenage love by degrading it to infatuation or is that just unrealistic, misguided semantics?

I wonder if Virtuous Reality is a sin of commission or omission?

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