With masturbation, "you know you're having sex with someone you love."

I think it's shitty what they did to her.

To villainize masturbation does not help a person or society at large: instead, it makes us feel guilty for doing something that comes naturally, or it gives a control freak an opening to shame people into submission.

this is a truly incredible lady, one of my hero's. Not only did the religious right do her in, but they also kept health education and school based clinics out of schools in Arkansas and then helped to defeat the health overhaul in the 90's. They villanized her and used their perverted sense of morality to scare and rally the base.

Dr. Elders grew up the granddaughter of slaves and the eldest of eight children in an Arkansas sharecropper?s family. She rose to become the first African American to serve as Surgeon General of the United States. Dr. Elders? life experiences ? informed by the complex interplay of poverty, race, and politics -- profoundly shaped her perspective on public health.

Born in 1933 in the depths of the depression, Joycelyn grew up too poor to ever see a doctor as a child. At 15, she graduated valedictorian of her all-black high school class in Tollette, Arkansas and received a small scholarship to attend Philander Smith College in Little Rock. Her entire family spent one week picking cotton to earn the $3.83 bus fare to send her to school.

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