# takecaredownthere.org **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 12, 2008, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/takecaredownthere-org/476814 "2008-12-12T01:55:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/takecaredownthere-org/476814/1 "2008-12-12T01:55:44Z")
Not sure whether to put this in GD or Cafe Society. [This](http://takecaredownthere.org/) is a site sponsored by Planned Parenthood that presents a series of short educational videos. Here’s a description by someone who… doesn’t like it: > [@](#): > > On its new website, [TakeCareDownThere.org](http://TakeCareDownThere.org), the group posts a series of videos so revolting that members of my staff were visibly shaken. In one clip, a girl tells her friends that she’s staying home from a party to masturbate. When her pals look shocked, she says, “What? I like me. I like spending time with me. Tonight I think I’m going to go all the way with me.” On another video, a “teacher” interrupts a boy performing oral sex on another boy and asks them where their condoms are. Others include videos called “Threesome” and “Let me do me,” and a song about genitalia that reaches a level of vulgarity that would give even crude networks like MTV pause. I read this, thinking “no way” and then went to the site and… yes way. 😛 It is much as described in the quotation above. But the thing the quoted description misses is, the skits are _hilarious_. They’re all fairly clever parodies of high-schoolish sex-ed skits, with a good dose of absurdism and lighthearted crudity thrown in. At first I thought it read too much like a _parody_ of sex education videos for the message to come through in any constuctive fashion. But after thinking about it, I’ve decided that to get the joke, one must presuppose that all the “cheesy” advice presented is in fact good advice. For the skits present ignorance of this kind of advice as in itself absurd–so absurd it’s funny. So I think these are good videos, yes, to show to kids even. But it’s debatable. (Not sure what the point of the “down there” song is supposed to be though… It’s the most crude-for-crudity’s-sake of all the segments and I don’t really think it works.) -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/takecaredownthere-org/476814/2 "2008-12-12T01:58:19Z")
It can’t possibly top the VD PSA in [_The Groove Tube._](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Groove_Tube) ---
**Author:** ![JXJohns](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jxjohns/32/469_2.png) [@JXJohns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JXJohns)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/takecaredownthere-org/476814/3 "2008-12-12T03:12:44Z")
Guys guys, look… 🙂 I thought the site was pretty funny. A good message or two and that song in the end made me lol. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/takecaredownthere-org/476814/4 "2008-12-12T03:50:59Z")
Oh yeah, **whamalama-do** and **panty hamster** – that’s some serious vulgarity! OMG, think of the children! Hilarious and cute. Love the kids’ expressions. And I love how the guy with the tie is just a little bit skeevy. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/takecaredownthere-org/476814/5 "2008-12-12T09:19:41Z")
“A little test-a-roony.” Og, that was funny. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/takecaredownthere-org/476814/6 "2008-12-12T13:48:43Z")
Guys, the horse is a majestic creature. I’m sending the link to my 18yo daughter and my 16yo son. I’m not sure how much younger I would think these were appropriate for. Have we stopped saying STD in favor of STI? ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/takecaredownthere-org/476814/7 "2008-12-15T15:52:40Z")
The quote in the Op was from a press release by the Family Research Council. I like what [this article](http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/08/01/take_care/) from [Salon.com](http://Salon.com) had to say about the reaction: > [@](#): > > The Northeastern branches of Planned Parenthood have pissed off the Christian-based Family Research Council – which, frankly, does not require waking up very early in the morning. … This press release should be read, if at all possible, with a trembling voice while crushing something in your hand – like an empty can of some sort, or a very crunchy piece of paper. Personally, I think the FRC is well down the road the road to self-parody (as Salon makes clear). What “research” does it actually do, anyway? AFAIK, it has always been solely about criticizing organizations that are trying to attack real problems, without offering any solutions of its own. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/takecaredownthere-org/476814/8 "2008-12-16T00:35:53Z")
Great site and sound advice, in the guise of funny parodies. Why cant more sex education be like this? ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/takecaredownthere-org/476814/9 "2008-12-16T03:08:13Z")
That’s some funny shit right there. God, I wish I could show that to my students. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/takecaredownthere-org/476814/10 "2008-12-16T06:10:20Z")
Very funny indeed. And a positive message that dispenses with the Head-in-Sand approach. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/takecaredownthere-org/476814/11 "2008-12-16T08:55:30Z")
This is amazing, I think they just made the first good Sex Ed vids ever (I also learned something, I did not know you were supposed to wear condoms with oral sex. Not that it matters to me considering I’m cosmically incapable of relationships, but good to know either way). ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/takecaredownthere-org/476814/12 "2008-12-17T12:51:35Z")
am I the only one who’s getting a weird “Hi, I’m a Mac…” echo from these ads? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/takecaredownthere-org/476814/13 "2008-12-17T14:11:14Z")
> [@](#): > > What “research” does it actually do, anyway? They sit around all day, surfing the internet, downloading porn, listening to CD’s, playing video games, watching a lot of TV, maybe playing some D&D - and then they complain about everything. They’re like cranky slackers.