Sounds More Like a Porno Dealers Convention Than a Youth Convention
Because the venue for the World Youth Conference had considerably more exhibit space than most UN conferences, it was a unique opportunity for organizations focusing on youth to put their best face forward. In the expo hall, there were dozens of booths with pornographic or sexually explicit materials or presentations.
At the International Planned Parenthood Federation (the largest provider of abortion services in the world) booth, their table featured the sexually explicit brochure: "Healthy, Happy, and Hot", which garnered headlines last March due to its distribution at a Girl Scouts side event at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
The Quilombolas e Gays organization booth was unmanned, but included several official UNAIDS posters. One poster proclaimed, “Create a world… with access to comprehensive sexuality education. A world where health services are always available and affordable. Where all young people have access to condoms. Where confidentiality is respected. Where young people are celebrated for who they are.”
Other highlights of the expo included a live demonstration showing how to put a condom onto a phallus, an organization whose only “literature” consisted of pornographic post cards, and a booth with a large Twister-like floor pad, with cartoonish depictions of human genitals replacing the familiar colored circles of the classic game.
The scene described here was documented at the same time that the First Lady of Mexico toured the expo, guided by Purnima Mane, the Deputy Executive Director of UNFPA. A UNFPA conference dispatch stated that “reallocating existing resources, especially those spent on ineffective programmes such as ‘get tough’ policies against violence, and ‘abstinence only’ programmes against teenage pregnancy, can provide enough funds to make a positive impact.” The dispatch also recommended that UNFPA, “[shift] investment from its current emphasis on the age-groups 25-60 and those 61 and older to a much stronger emphasis on those between 6 and 17 years of age, and also those between 18 and 24.”
NOTE: Most of the photographs that were taken to document these booths are too explicit to carry on C-FAM’s website, but can be made available upon request.
Labels: Planned Parenthood
2 Comments:
At 3/9/10 10:20 AM , Kindred Spirit said...
This kind of thing goes on at Yale University, and perhaps other U.S. campuses, every year. The youth have always been the targets of revolutionaries, and the youth are being lost because all too often the adults to whom they were entrusted by Almighty God have failed them. As Our Lady said at Fatima, we must pray and do penance; and we must learn our Faith so that we can teach it to our children, thereby helping to save their souls as well as our own. It is a God-given duty, and not an option.
At 3/9/10 10:51 PM , TH2 said...
That the UN is involved with this is no surprise.
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