Districts take her up on offer to teach course on abstinence for free
Photo by VERNON BRYANT / Dallas Morning News
Jennifer Waters calls herself the Sex Lady. She likes to play matchmaker with Miss Tape and unwitting teen boys.
She slaps a piece of clear tape across Julian's arm. He winces.
"It's gonna hurt when I take it off," the lanky boy protests.
"But it's fine now, isn't it?" Ms. Waters whips back.
The puzzled looks on 18 eighth-graders at Carrollton's Arbor Creek Middle School brighten. The Sex Lady has made her point: Bad relationships hurt.
Ms. Waters, who was born to an unwed teen mother, teaches abstinence courses for free to schools and church groups across the country. The Allen, Lewisville and Princeton school districts have all brought her in, spurning larger and more costly programs.
Texas law requires sex education courses be abstinence-based. Some Lewisville middle schools had been contracting with Dallas-based nonprofit Aim for Success, which claims to be the nation's largest abstinence educator.
But not all schools could afford a price tag that averaged $2,000 per session. And those presentations generally were given to entire grade levels. Ms. Waters speaks to smaller groups – one class or sometimes two combined classes at a time.
This from the Dallas Morning News.
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