And It Causes Hair to Grow on Your Knuckles
This is downright incredible. From an article Medical News Today:

Abstinence only sex education courses lie to youngsters with scary ‘facts' (03 Dec 2004)
Some federally funded abstinence sex education courses tell youngsters that 50% of all American teenage gay men are HIV positive, touching someone's genitals can make you pregnant and abortion can lead to sterility and suicide, says the Washington Post. This is according to a congressional staff analysis.

The study was ordered by Henry Waxman, Californian Congressman. It studied 13 abstinence sex education courses - all of them federally funded.

According to the Washington Post, 11 of the studies contained information that was completely untrue and made subjective conclusions from these false statements.

The courses stated that ‘condoms fail in 31% of cases of heterosexual sex'. Some of the courses went on to say that a fetus is a thinking person when it is just 43 days old. Many of the courses claimed that you can catch HIV from a person's tears.

In an interview with the Washington Post, Waxman said he is not against the idea of abstinence courses, but he is against using lies.

I have been doing a lot of research recently on prevention strategies in relation to alcohol and drug use among teenagers. One thing that has been fairly well understood is that "scare tactics" aren't very effective. But scare tactics based on incorrect information and even just plain old superstition is even worse. I personally am in favor of pushing abstinence. It is the one sure-fire way to deal with many of the problems and issues brought on by teen sexuality.

But there are a lot of better and less deceitful ways of handling it. Overall this isn't my field of expertise, but I know when I see something that isn't good and honest. And so will the kids.