An open letter to the people who agreed to play a certain commercial on MTV

Dear MTV Execs or really, the people who created this commercial:

I am shocked that you played an abstinence-only commercial on your network. Especially one that was so wrong it was appalling. First of all, the boy in the commercial says that he is going to wait for sex, which fine if it is your CHOICE and not because your stupid school health program boasts abstinence-only sex ed. It should be abstinence-based people.

And why? Well, like I said, you have the boy talking about how he is going to wait to have sex and that since he is waiting he doesn't have to worry about getting tested. WRONG! Unless he is abstaining from all sexual activity, which includes oral, he should still get tested as STDs are also passed through other ways besides actual intercourse.

Commercials like this give teens and tweens and who ever else the wrong message. Don't have sex but its okay to do everything else because you don't need to get tested. And like I said, that is wrong. All schools should let Planned Parenthood teach their sex ed as they will TEACH students about actual sex issues and not just where the fallopian tubes are located. Considering that pop culture is super-sexualized (Miley Cyrus, Jamie-Lynn Spears, Ali Lohan...) and all girls think its okay to look and act 25. And if so, then they should know that they can still get an STD if they give a boy a blow job. I mean really people, we need to teach these young adults how and where to get birth control. And I like to believe that if you are too embarrassed to go on the pill or buy condoms, well then you shouldn't be having sex.

However, if you are going to air commercials that reach to a large audience of mostly teens and young kids, you should get the facts straight. Fine if they want to wait to have sex but let them know what other diseases they can catch if they chose to partake in other sexual activities. It's important for them to know the correct information in order to make informed decisions.

Thank you,
S. Bell
Preacher for better sexual education in today's schools.