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Well... duh.

Further down, the article has a couple similar findings studies. Apparently,

  • "The Elderly Like to Take Naps" and
  • "Fat People Like Pie"

Why is this news? Why is it news that kids like to have sex, and will even (gasp!) use alcohol or drugs to get it (and make it less awkward)?

Sex is the basic human instinct.

That and talking shit about your co-workers.

INT. OFFICE NIGHT — CHRISTMAS PARTY

JOANNE (Slurring speech)

Marsha in HR is such a bitch.

BRADLEY (One side of shirt untucked)

Yeah. Wanna screw on the Xerox-er?

But our President (the "W" stands for "Whaaaaa the faaaaaaak") apparently doesn’t think kids have sex. He recently appointed an AIDS Czar that opposes condom use. AIDS. Condoms… And he’s earmarked $125 million dollars for abstinence programs.

Now, I understand that abstinence and condoms, these may be issues of Morality… but what about the issues of Reality. Kids are having sex. They’re getting pregnant, diseases, in trouble.

And Bush should know about sex.

Are we to believe that he did all that coke

and his daughters drink all the time

and his niece steals prescription drugs

Just so they can get perky and get all into Bible Study? Maybe go to a Catholic Rave.

INT. CHURCH BASEMENT — NIGHT - DANCE FLOOR

Underage kids run aroud dropping the Body of Christ, experience forgiveness and enlightenment.A strobe light reflects off the face of PRESCOTT, a young scholar wearing his Sunday best. He has a pacifier in his mouth, a glow stick in his hand, and his legs flail about in classic raver dance.

PRESCOTT

Hey man, check out the baseline on this Hymnal! Come on, raise the dead!

CUT TO:

INT. CHURCH BASEMENT — DEEJAY BOOTH

Record plays forward: "Jesus G-d, Jesus G-d"

DJ scratches record backwards: "Dawg sawseej, dawg sawseej…"

FADE OUT

The President's Niece Gets All Dolled Up For Midnight Mass

Yeah, it’s true. Check on your tables at home.

 

 

I apologize if that offends anyone. I was going to give up blasphemy for Lent.

But I’m Jewish, so f-k it.

 

I’ve actually been sad lately that I’m Jewish, because if I weren’t, I think I might’ve learned about sex a little earlier in life.

Like from my Priest…

 

(Insert middle finger for those who groan). Come on, everyone, this is the least surprising scandal of all time.

There’s an old saying, they even made it into a song.

(The best part… that song… by a group called "Arrested Development." Such prophets. America… such prudes).

 

I understand religion is a delicate subject. You don't know me, and I don't know you, and for me to be talking about religion and mentioning Jesus... I know I'm walking on thin water...

I've just been questioning organized religion lately -- a lot of people have. Look what it's gotten us in the last year: Pedophiles, Terrorists, and War.

Great, that's three more than pot-smoking...

Yes, it's important, but for me, religion was just the starting point for my own personal system of beliefs, and a way to spend time with my family. Not actually talk to them -- I can't stand those people -- but spend time with them...

INT. MY HOUSE FOR DINNER

MOM

You might want to get a real job, dear.

ME

Screw you, mom. Pass the peas... and can I borrow 20 bucks?

FADE

I'm starting to wonder if I'm just naive, because I don't care what your religious preferences are -- or your sexual preferences or any of your lifestyle choices. As long as you're happy, as long as you don't hurt anybody, and as long as you don't make things... too... "awkward." None of us -- no matter how open-minded we are -- want to be walking around with our families, in San Francisco, and see a couple "guys", right out in the open... "discussing the scripture." Eww. That's gross.

And I don't wanna be in the shower at the gym getting checked out by a couple of freaky Quakers.

INT. GOLD'S GYM SHOWER

ABRAHAM

Looks like his pen has no cap. (Looks around). Jebediah, spread your word...

FADE

 

It's the gaps in logic in sexual politics bother me. For instance, there’s a congressman in Wisconsin who -- in order to curb gun violence -- wants there to be, get this, Mandatory Firearm Training in Public Schools.

He says "Guns are a part of society and they’re not going away." Okay, fine, maybe.. but the same guy opposes sex education and family planning. Isn’t sex a part of society that’s not going away?

Can’t someone train me to handle the gun that I come with? (That’d cut down the violence. At least in my relationships…)

What’s this guy’s campaign slogan? "Don’t Make Life! Take It!" or "Teenagers! Bring Your Unwanted Babies to the Jefferson High Firing Range!"

Pull!

Mama!

Brittney Sells Spirituality (and her upcoming show at The Crazy Horse Gentlemen’s Club)

No, sex doesn’t happen. Nobody’s having sex. There’s no reason anyone should want to have sex, ever. Heaven forbid -- and, some people's Heaven does forbid -- we ever teach people about sex, how to protect themselves, how to be happy, how to stay alive...

Let’s deny that sex is a part of life forever and we'll all just squirrel away in the attic, mumbling to ourselves and masturbating to 1970s National Geographics and the latest Ashcroft memo revising the Bill of Rights.

Of course, this has nothing to do with Sex. People just want to paralyze their muscles to increase productivity and family values

We don’t need to glamorize sex or exploit it or force it upon people… but let’s at least acknowledge that it’s real, it’s natural, and it’s okay. And let's talk about it intelligently and maturely. Then maybe people — kids, priests, and congressmen — can learn about it and be safe.

And now, a song about my penis…

FADE OUT (Before I make you listen)

 

 
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