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  • Melissa Harris Perry And Guests Translate Amanda Berry’s Decade Of Rape Into Agenda-Setting Narrative


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    Remember folks, it’s conservatives who are obsessed with female and teenage sexuality. Continue to remind yourself of this immutable law of nature as you watch Melissa Harris-Perry and her panel guests effortlessly turn the decade-long torture faced by Amanda Berry , Gina DeJesus , and Michelle Knight at the ...
    1 week ago

  • Purity Culture and Sexual Assault


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    Caperton covered the Elizabeth Smart speech about abstinence already , and my Guardian column this week is on a similar topic: How an emphasis on purity is bad for women, bad for men and bad for rape survivors : Where does a woman’s value lie? In her brain? Her heart? Her spirit? According to right-wing culture ...
    1 week ago

  • Purity Culture and Sexual Assault


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    Caperton covered the Elizabeth Smart speech about abstinence already , and my Guardian column this week is on a similar topic: How an emphasis on purity is bad for women, bad for men and bad for rape survivors : Where does a woman’s value lie? In her brain? Her heart? Her spirit? According to right-wing culture ...
    1 week ago

  • Elizabeth Smart Proves that Abstinence Education is the Worst Thing Ever


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    [TRIGGER WARNING for rape and sexual assault]   Dirty. Filthy. A chewed piece of gum. These are words used by Elizabeth Smart to describe how she felt after being kidnapped, held captive, and raped for nearly a year back in 2002. These are some of the reasons that kept her from fleeing the moment she got the ...
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  • Object Lessons and Objections


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    Object lessons are incredibly effective teaching tools, especially in religion. There’s the one about nailing a board to a wall or a tree. If you put one nail in the board it can still spin around; the board is unstable. But if you put a second nail through the board, the board becomes anchored. This […]
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  • The New "Normal"?...Is Kidnap Pedophilia On The Rise?


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    Currently, headline news is that Amanda Berry, her daughter, and 2 other captives have been discovered after at least 10 years of being imprisoned by 3 male captors. I dont think that there is any sane or rational person that believes that any of what she or her fellow captives experienced was or is normal in any way, ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Elizabeth Smart Thrilled At Ohio Kidnap Rescue


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    Elizabeth Smart, herself the victim of a terrifying and lengthy kidnap ordeal, has commented on the shock discovery of three women who’d been missing for years captive in a Cleveland home. Elizabeth Smart was just a teenager when she was abducted from her home in Utah while her family slept. Hope grew dim that the ...
    2 weeks ago

  • WATCH: Elizabeth Smart on Human Trafficking, Limits of Abstinence Education


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    Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped from her home in Salt Lake City and held in captivity for nine months in 2002 at age 14, spoke out about her experience at a human trafficking panel at Johns Hopkins University last week. Her main focus: educating children and giving them the skills to fight back. She recounted her ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Female Purity Is Bullshit


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    Everyone else on earth is as annoyed with "purity" as I am, right? The idea that there are two kinds of women—"good girls" and everyone else, and one of them is good for fucking and the other one is good for marriage and never the twain shall meet and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz? How is this fulfilling for anyone? Enough. ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Elizabeth Smart Says Abstinence Only Education Made Her Kidnapping And Rape Worse


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    Elizabeth Smart , anti rape advocate, has some very smart things to say about abstinence only education. More » Elizabeth Smart Says Abstinence Only Education Made Her Kidnapping And Rape Worse is a post from TheGloss - Get the best womens beauty, make up, hairstyles tips. Get sex, dating advice, culture news ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Elizabeth Smart’s Abstinence Education Made Kidnapping Ordeal Worse


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    Elizabeth Smart, the Utah teenager who was kidnapped and held captive for nine months in 2002, is now 25 and has gracefully translated her ordeal into a career as an author, ABC News “abduction expert,” and sexual predator legislation activist. But she might also make an even better spokeswoman for ... ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Thanks to abstinence teaching, Elizabeth Smart felt Im that chewed up piece of gum


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    Elizabeth Smart Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped at age 14 and held for nine months under brutal circumstances—but also brought out in public on more than one occasion. Why didnt she run? Smart said she "felt so dirty and so filthy" after she was raped by her captor, and she understands why someone wouldnt run ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Rotary Link Salad


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    Rotary day, so have some link salad. A) Ive spoken before of Elizabeth Smart. Well, with this mornings news of three girls having been kidnapped and held for years, shes talking about why she didnt run . The short version - abstinence-only sex ed. Her quote: ""I thought, Oh, my gosh, Im that chewed up piece of ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Elizabeth Smart: Abstinence-Only Education Kept Me From Running Away


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    Speaking at a forum on human trafficking at Johns Hopkins University, kidnapping and rape survivor Elizabeth Smart offered personal insight into why someone in an ordeal similar to the one she endured would have a hard time running away from their captor . Read more...        
    2 weeks ago

  • Because Comprehensive Sex Ed Can Help Prevent Sex Crimes


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    After being held captive for 10 years, Amanda Berry and two other young women are finally free. They were kidnapped by three brothers and held against their will, chained in the basement of an average suburban home in Ohio. Just like Jaycee Duggard, Amanda gave birth to a daughter during her captivity. Amandas ...
    2 weeks ago

  • The Kidnapped Girls in Cleveland: Horrifying and Rare


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    Readers — Like the rest of you, I am shaken by the story of the three young women held hostage in Cleveland for years. Like you, I’m guessing, this brings up other stories — of Elizabeth Smart, Jaycee Dugard.  I hope you will understand I am not dishonoring their trauma by trying to keep it in perspective. A ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Elizabeth Smart, Ten Years Later


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    At Think Progress and the Christian Science Monitor.   This has been lurking in the background of the amazing story out of Cleveland today.
    2 weeks ago

  • Elizabeth Smart: Abstinence only education teaches rape victims they are worthless.


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    Courtesy of Think Progress :   Elizabeth Smart became a household name after she was kidnapped from her home in Salt Lake City, UT at the age of 14 and held in captivity for nine months. She was forced into a polygamous marriage, tethered to a metal cable, and raped daily until she was rescued from her captors ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Elizabeth Smart on abstinence-only teachings: Rape victims “filthy.” “Why… worth screaming out? Your life still has no value.”


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    Its Fund Drive Time for The Political Carnival. Our Support TPC page is at http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/supporttpc/ . We could really use the help. Thanks! (AP Photo/The Scranton Times-Tribune, Butch Comegys) When Elizabeth Smart was only 14-years-old, she was kidnapped from her Salt Lake City, Utah ...
    2 weeks ago

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