What About the Lost Girls?

Click on the picture above. Now, look closely at her left leg. May God bless Tori Amos and the menstrual blood running down her leg. God bless her.

Tori instantly became a hero of mine when I first discovered her. It is comforting that heroes still exist. Not only does she continue to create provocative and hopeful music ranging in topic from masturbation, road trips, to God; she had the courage to do something about her fans’ reaction to that music. http://www.rainn.org/
Her sexually charged and Christian-imagery infused music provided a much-needed outlet for the repressive corridors in my all-girls Catholic high school. She helped to take the shame and promise of eternal damnation out of sexual expression. This was nice to have.

This picture got me thinking about some things. I have had lots of heated debates in the past few weeks about how to address the various woes in New Orleans. Of course, I think that if there is no land to stand on then what is the point of fighting the rest. We need to start aggressively fixing what the American government did to our coasts. Check my sister’s Blog Red Beans and Lice to learn more.

As for the out of control violence and rampant stupidity that plagues the city streets not just in New Orleans, but also all across America. I think we are forgetting a key demographic. We keep talking about the gun toting, sexually aggressive Lost Boys. They need fathers. They need guidance. I agree with that. But, you know what they need even more? They need their female peers to tell them to “Fuck off.” It is time to save the Lost Girls.

A curious demonstration of female power recently took place in Colombia:
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=283923&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/

But, I don’t think a sex strike is the only way to go.

To quote a petition from Planned Parenthood, “One billion dollars has been wasted on abstinence-only education, which denies young people real information about how to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, including AIDS.”

It is time to face head-on with the realities of the world we live in. Sex is a really cheap form of entertainment and when you don’t buy condoms, its supa cheap. Also when you don’t have a family that cares about you, lots of girls think, why don’t I just make my own? Babies are easy to make and mine will love me unconditionally. And one final thing that is true of every person in love – the belief that they can change him and their love will last forever. It is easy to get duped by the smooth talking gentleman, at any age.

We have established that we aren’t going to stop people from doing the horizontal tango. It is not going to happen, never could, and we never will. So lets stop investing billions of dollars in unicorns and fairies.

If you honestly want to fix the issues of poverty and violence - make birth control, emergency contraception, and sex education more readily available to the lost girls. Lets show the lost girls they have more to offer the world than their ability to reproduce. Invest in your local Planned Parenthood. And for the love of women not getting cervical cancer, support legislation, which makes the new vaccine against HPV, Gardasil, a mandatory vaccine for young girls. I am just salty that there are parents out there who think cervical cancer is a good lesson learned against pre-marital sex.

For those of you that think sexually transmitted infections only happen to promiscuous bad people, consider this, “By age 50, at least 80 percent of women will have acquired genital HPV infection. About 6.2 million Americans get a new genital HPV infection each year.” According to this statistic, eighty percent of American women are sluts.

Let us lift the veil from our eyes. Let us live in this world. Let us enjoy one of the greatest gifts ever to be given from on high responsibly and without shame. Let us give girls more options than abstinence or parenthood.

Sign these petitions:
http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/keroackpetition2/
http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/prevention_first2

Donate to your local Planned Parenthood!
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/get-involved/donate.htm