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Jake: "I just cannot bring myself to believe that it is possible that a textbook would contain that phrase, or anything close enough to it to be called "direct quote"."
Hapax: I had trouble believing it myself until my daughter brought the book home. Here you go:
From CHOOSING THE BEST LIFE: An Abstinence-Focused Curriculum, by Bruce Cook. Student Manual, 4th ed.That's all the context that's in the book, but my daughter informs me (and later pages in the workbook back her up) that the accompanying video made it very clear that any female who is slutty enough to be alone with a male is pretty much asking for it, since males ... are incapable of controlling their base animal desires.
p. 13. Lesson Two: What Do You Know About 'Date Rape'?
Question 5. True or False: The victim shares in the blame of the rape.
(answer: True).
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That seems like a reliable reference to me. Anyway, I think this shows that so-called 'Abstinence' education is not about abstinence at all. Teaching 14 year old boys that if they rape someone it is (partly) someone else's fault is the opposite of abstinence. Telling boys that they can't be expected to control themselves is the opposite of teaching them mature adult sexual behaviour.
