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A New Book About Sex, Geared For Toddlers And Up

Brian Fairbanks — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:08:00 GMT

Last year, a 1992 book about sex for kids, written by Narelle Wickham, was re-released with little notice.

That's all changed now that Focus on the Family has found out it contains positive messages about same sex marriage, artificial insemination, and a whole host of other "adult" issues. Oh, and it's being marketed for toddlers...

One ad for the book describes it this way:

It includes simple age appropriate descriptions of sexual intercourse, donor insemination, In Vitro Fertilisation and Gamete Intra Fallopian Transfer, as well as pregnancy, birth, adoption, surrogacy, and same-sex parented families. A pioneering book when first published to wide acclaim in 1992, this new edition is now printed in full colour and includes updated content.

That's not how Focus on the Family, America's greatest source of disturbing press releases, sees it:

The controversial publication, Where Did I Really Come From?, also features a drawing of two gay men holding a baby, in a chapter about surrogacy.

The publisher's marketing spruiks the book, which includes in-depth descriptions of sexual intercourse, as suitable to be read to two-year-old children.

"It devalues the traditional family unit and at the very least desensitises us," Focus On The Family spokeswoman Deb Sorensen said.

In a chapter on assisted conception, the book tells children: "Sometimes, a woman really wants to have a baby but she doesn't want to have intercourse with a man. Some women want to bring up a baby by themselves, or with another woman, so the baby gets two mums.

"A woman may go to a doctor who will arrange to get some sperm for her, or a special man she knows may agree to give her some of his sperm."

The book was... relaunched by Learn to Include [publisher of books with positive gay characters and messages.]

Learn to Include's website says the book's "simple, non-judgmental explanations of sexual intercourse, assisted conception, pregnancy, birth, adoption and surrogacy are "suitable for 2-12 year olds". [News.com.au]

The best part of this entire book are these lines:

A woman and a man hug and caress each other, and the woman accepts the man's penis into her vagina. After a while lots of sperm come out of his penis and into her vagina.

Of course, the book does not get into what happens when the man cannot make sperm come out of his penis. Because that would be too much for a two-year-old's brain to process.

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Sale! Human Sperm

Colleen Kane — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:01:00 GMT

If you were going with artificial insemination to get pregnant, would you buy sperm on sale? One sperm bank, the futuristically named Xytex, is banking on in it with their own version of a stimulus package.

Apparently Xytex has an overload of sperm from certain donors who are quite prolific, and they're looking to, uh, unload some of it. Vials of sperm from those clients will be discounted by up to $200.

"We're all feeling the effects of the economy and, especially for families seeking reproductive options, every dollar counts," said a spokesperson for Xytex, Danielle Moores. "Select donors are a new level of donor which we introduced to try to help our clients who are interested in third-party reproduction but, with the tough economy, are having a little bit of trouble purchasing a regular donor."

Is that something you want to tell the kids, though? "And then your mommy got them to knock down an extra $50 from the amount they were already discounting. And then nine months later, you were born!"

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Breaking: Clay Aiken Impregnated a Woman

Emily Farris — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:19:00 GMT

It's true. And yes, we know, we're really shocked, too. We're having a hard time getting the words out. Probably as hard a time as he would have had getting it up for the woman in question.

Right. We said would have. Because, did you really expect him to put it in a lady? No, no. He gave his sperm to his "best friend," roommate and producer Jaymes Foster.

Jaymes Foster (who is reportedly in her late 40s) was artificial [sic] inseminated with the 29-year-old singer's sperm, according to the report.

Aiken lives with Foster – described as his "best friend" – when he's in L.A. and plans to be involved with parenting their child, TMZ reports.

The crooner has consistently avoided questions about his sexuality.

"People don't want to have that type of stuff pushed, people who are living in Omaha or in Charlotte or wherever," Aiken told Access Hollywood last month.

"They don't want stuff like that pushed in their face," he added. "I don't think that's necessary and that's also not what I'm here for. I mean, I went on Idol to be a singer, I went on Idol to be an entertainer and that's what my priority is."

Actually, Clay, we here at Scanner love having that stuff pushed in our faces.

[Us: Report: Idol Clay Aiken to Be a Father]