Massachusetts State legislators are currently considering a bill to teach twelve year old middle school students about oral and anal sex. I wish I were making it up. But this is real.  In fact, it’s called “Get Real,” Planned Parenthood’s new Sex Ed curriculum for grades 6 through 8.  House Bill 448, entitled “An Act Relative to Healthy Youth,” would require all schools in MA to align their sexual health curricula with the Massachusetts Health Education Frameworks standards (for those of you following the Common Core debate, you know how this works).  If this bill is passed, schools will be scrambling for Sex Ed curricula that is consistent with the Health Frameworks, and it is no surprise that the MA Department of Education and Planned Parenthood are already working together to promote “Get Real,” the new curriculum designed by none other than the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts.

Here at MFI, we acquired a copy of the “Get Real” student workbooks for grades 6 through 8.  Although they are shot through with offensive material, I brought the following examples of allegedly “age appropriate” and “medically accurate” information to the legislative hearing on June 3rd.  As awkward as it was, I read them aloud to the State Representatives and Senators responsible for the bill’s fate.

On a series of flash cards for 7th graders outlining proper condom usage, one read “Have vaginal, oral or anal sex.”  I asked the legislators if they thought that was “age appropriate” for twelve year old children, and they simply stared back at me uncomfortably.