https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/business/media/27agent.html

Agents Replaying a Hollywood Drama

July 27, 2008

ONCE upon a time in Hollywood, a band of rebels left a lumbering old talent agency to start a hot little company of their own — and in a dozen years or so managed to reach the top of the heap.

Twice upon a time, actually.

Just as Michael S. Ovitz and his peers walked away from the William Morris Agency to found Creative Artists Agency more than 30 years ago, Ariel Z. Emanuel and three associates left International Creative Management in 1995 to found Endeavor.

Creative Artists, under Mr. Ovitz and the people who succeeded him after he left in the mid-’90s, has long been the talent industry’s leader, staking its claim as a voracious (and, some detractors said during the Ovitz years, sometimes thuggish) conglomerate that changed the way talent is bought and sold here.

Along the way, Endeavor became Creative Artists’ doppelgänger. With only a third as many agents and a much smaller client list, the junior agency is known for the sort of quick thinking, ferocity and barely bridled ambition that carried Creative Artists to the top.

But Endeavor now has to show that it has staying power, and how it accomplishes that task offers a window onto the shifting landscape of talent brokering in Hollywood.

While Creative Artists is aggressively expanding into areas like sports and corporate consulting, Endeavor says it has smoothed its rougher, frat house edges and is trying to take advantage of ownership deals, in which Endeavor clients take a stake in their work rather than just being paid a handsome fee.

Mr. Ovitz says that Mr. Emanuel “and his crew have done the same thing we did, and people don’t really give that enough weight. In some strange, blasé way, it’s taken for granted.”

For his part, Mr. Emanuel says he takes nothing for granted. “I feel like we’re just getting started,” he says in an interview in the hilltop home of one of his partners, Patrick Whitesell.

Acknowledging speculation that Endeavor is being groomed for a sale or merger, the partners said they had routinely discussed that possibility in the past without finding a combination that overcame the ego and turf issues endemic to the talent trade. They assert that no sale or merger is in the works.

Meanwhile, however, the entertainment business itself is transforming, as digital media supplant conventional television networks and movie theaters. Mr. Emanuel insists that Hollywood’s future looks robust, despite a pullback among outside film investors and the determination of television executives to trim budgets.

MR. Emanuel, a close-cropped, sharp-tongued model for the fictional Ari Gold of the HBO series “Entourage,” says it’s all simply a matter of supply and demand.

“You have the same number of content creators,” he says. “But distribution has grown.”

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Mr. Emanuel thinks rising opportunity has surpassed the supply of talent, putting clients and their agents (at least those he deems desirable) on the verge of new prosperity, because they can more readily sell their wares to a broader universe of cable television, Internet and independent film buyers. “The lines have crossed,” he says.

Even so, on the conventional film front this year, Endeavor ranks behind Creative Artists, which had about 10 directors and 13 stars in movies like “Iron Man” and “What Happens in Vegas.” Endeavor landed six directors and nine stars in projects like “The Incredible Hulk” and the comedy “Tropic Thunder.”

A closely watched ranking of television client deals compiled annually by TVtracker.com put Endeavor in the top slot for last year, with a slight edge over Creative Artists in overall network and cable deals — 376 to 359 — and a clear edge in the representation of “showrunners,” the writer-producers who supervise television series.

Endeavor is paid packaging fees on “Boston Legal,” “Gossip Girl” and others, while Creative Artists reaps the fees from shows like “E.R.” and “Cold Case.”

All of this amounts to real money, by the way.

Endeavor’s revenue is estimated to be a bit more than $100 million a year, well under half that of Creative Artists, according to people at both agencies who spoke anonymously to avoid conflict within either company. (Endeavor partners declined to give a figure, and Michael Mand, a spokesman for Creative Artists, declined to comment.)

Both William Morris and International Creative Management, two agencies that rank behind Creative Artists and Endeavor in the Hollywood pecking order by some measures, appear to have more revenue than Endeavor, thanks in part to what agents like to call “legacy” — steady cash flow from movie and television work booked over long decades of representation. (The ticklish game of ranking agencies is something of an apples-and-oranges exercise, as each firm has pursued different strategies.)

Virtually all of Endeavor’s profit after salaries and bonuses is distributed to partners annually. Without much in the way of physical assets or retained earnings, Endeavor, like many agencies, is an ephemeral business.

It has tried to leverage its smaller size by building an esprit de corps reminiscent of Creative Artists’ early days. Its offices, designed by the architect Neil Denari, feature sculpted spaces and white halls. Departments are deliberately mixed: television packaging agents work side-by-side with those representing movie writers or major stars.

Promotion from within is the rule — about 35 of the 80 or so agents started in the mailroom or as assistants — and the agency attempts to govern itself democratically (Hollywood egos notwithstanding).

Mr. Emanuel and Mr. Whitesell, without corporate titles, join Rick Rosen of the television department and Adam Venit, a motion picture talent agent, as fixed members of a seven-member executive committee. The remaining slots are filled for two-year terms according to a vote by the agency’s 26 partners.

Several former clients privately maintain that Endeavor’s internal coordination lags. They note that Creative Artists is quicker to match its clients with each other, for instance, by pairing an available script with an agency-represented director. Endeavor leans more toward individual representation, with agents inclined to advance and protect their own clients.

Yet Endeavor continues to hold its own with clients. In the last few rounds of client swapping, Endeavor lost Ashton Kutcher to Creative Artists, which lost Robert De Niro to Endeavor. Two longtime agents joined William Morris from Endeavor, which signed three others from International Creative Management.

In the last three months, Endeavor also picked up a string of high-profile comedians that includes three A-listers: Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Amy Poehler.

As it mixes it up with other agencies, Endeavor is also maturing into something more than an upstart. “The firm grew up,” said Thomas Strickler, a movie agent who joined Mr. Emanuel, Mr. Rosen and David Greenblatt (who has since left Endeavor) as a co-founder of Endeavor. That has meant trying to abandon rougher elements of a corporate culture that landed the agency in serious trouble about seven years after its birth.

IN April 2002, an agent named Sandra Epstein sued Endeavor, alleging, among other things, sexual harassment and pointing out that at one point she had been the lone woman among a dozen male agents.

According to court papers, Ms. Epstein ultimately settled her claims for $2.25 million. But not before underwriters at Lloyd’s of London, Endeavor’s insurer, canceled the agency’s employment practices policy, provoking a second suit by Endeavor against Lloyd’s and a law firm the insurers had been paying to represent the agency.

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In depositions and court filings in the second suit — ultimately settled under undisclosed terms — Ms. Epstein and other Endeavor employees described office escapades that included rampant pot-smoking, obscene hazing at corporate retreats, sexual frolics on desks, and one agent demanding that his assistants book prostitutes for him.

Ms. Epstein said Mr. Emanuel blocked her from sending a script about the Navy Seals to the actor Wesley Snipes. “That is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,” the agent was reported in the papers to have said. “Everyone knows that blacks don’t swim.”

Endeavor’s partners said they were blocked by legal agreements from discussing the case.

The case came at a time of upheaval at Endeavor, but it weathered its problems. Today, about half of Endeavor’s agents and a quarter of its partners are women. Managers at the company say that it has no African-American agents but that it has had some in the past. Women who work at the firm say things have changed.

“Man or woman, it doesn’t matter,” said Nancy Josephson, a partner who joined the company in 2006. “I can’t tell you the number of times Ari Emanuel has said to me, ‘I’ve got your back.’ ”

Today, Endeavor — like some of its competitors — has focused on what it calls “the entrepreneurial client.” That list includes stars and other creative clients who have a stake in the enterprises most closely associated with them, like the writer-producer-performer Ricky Gervais (“The Office”) and the former supermodel Tyra Banks (“America’s Next Top Model”).

Ideally, such clients create and often retain ownership in projects that can bounce through iterations on movie screens, the stage, cable television or the Internet — generating revenue for the agency and its allies at each turn.

The British comic Mr. Gervais, for instance, was a writer, director and star of “This Side of the Truth,” a movie set for next year about a man who invents lying in a world where it didn’t exist. Earlier this month, he brought his live stage show to Hollywood and used the visit to grab media attention for another of his films, “Ghost Town.”

Endeavor also has to retain a foothold in the television industry as it is reinvented, with more reality programming and a shift away from the big networks. When Endeavor was founded, Mr. Rosen notes, it focused on representing television writer-producers, had few filmmakers and had virtually no movie stars in its stable. “We’re now close to 50-50,” Mr. Rosen said of its film and television businesses.

In today’s cable-driven world, television agents are pursuing more buyers who generally pay less than the conventional broadcast networks, while also navigating the business of making television pilots — a craft that was heavily damaged by the recent writers’ strike.

While television has become challenging, Endeavor has had an easier time expanding its film business by raiding agents from other firms — an expensive proposition, though Mr. Emanuel insists that his agency has never “paid retail” for new agents.

A tipping point came when Mr. Whitesell arrived from Creative Artists in 2001, bringing with him much-needed stars like Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Christian Bale, star of the new Batman movie, “The Dark Knight.” John Lesher (now a top executive at Paramount) joined the next year, bringing sophisticated filmmakers like David O. Russell. (Mr. Venit had arrived several years earlier, bringing Adam Sandler to the agency.)

The accretion led, finally, to this year’s strong showing in the high-stakes summer season, following a spectacular performance at the Oscars in 2007, when clients took a raft of awards for films like “The Departed” and “Little Miss Sunshine.”

But some key Endeavor partners are in their 40s, approaching the age at which Mr. Ovitz and his acolytes at Creative Artists began to itch for new pursuits.

For example, Mr. Emanuel — whose brothers are Representative Rahm Emanuel of Illinois and the bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel — hasn’t been without distractions. He has been at the front of Senator Barack Obama’s Hollywood campaign but says he doesn’t intend to make politics a full-time occupation or to put aside a personal client list that includes Larry David, Mark Wahlberg and Martin Scorsese.

Mr. Venit and Mr. Rosen both say they intend to stay put. And Mr. Whitesell, a gravelly voiced 43-year-old, concurs, saying that Endeavor has become too interesting of late for him to even think about leaving.

“People want to be a part of it,” he says.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ari_Emanuel

An April 2002 lawsuit by agent Sandra Epstein against Endeavor Agency brought forth accusations by Epstein and other Endeavor employees against Emanuel. In the court filings, Emanuel is alleged to have allowed a friend to operate a pornographic website out of Endeavor's offices. According to Epstein, Emanuel made racist and anti-gay remarks and prevented her from sending a script about Navy SEALs to actor Wesley Snipes, saying: "That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Everyone knows that blacks don't swim." Emanuel disputed these accusations at the time. Epstein's claims were settled for $2.25 million.

>>17875284

>DOUGH

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https://www.rael.org/events/international-sexed-day/

>>17875360

The UNESCO's International technical guidance on sexuality education is fully in line with the Raelian philosophy that has, for more than 40 years, advocated the necessity to explain sexuality and the notion of pleasure, just like UNESCO (2009, 2015, 2017, 2019), the WHO (2010) and UNFPA (2014, 2015) have concluded in their reports.

The taboos and code of silence that currently rule over Sex Education are destructive and dangerous. It's imperative that the guiding principles issued by UNESCO and WHO experts who favor Sex Education from childhood be genuinely implemented by governments as they currently do absolutely nothing even where laws exist but are hardly implemented (for example in France).

The goal is to give children and adolescents a sex education that is adapted to their age and culture and that emphasizes pleasure, fulfillment and well-being in terms of sexual health as defined by the World Health Organization.

Anchored in the fundamental rights defined by many international treaties including the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE) allows children and adolescents to develop their autonomy in order to preserve their well-being, their health and their dignity especially in the face of the risks of violence and sexual abuse.

There is a huge gap between the way adults—including politicians and parents—perceive Sex Education and the reality that children and adolescents face on a daily basis. This failure by adults to recognize the importance of Sex Education and pleasure generates incredible suffering in children such as discrimination and abuse. This must change, but for that to happen a global awareness campaign on the absolute necessity of a sexual education worthy of its name is required. It's a human right.

>>17875384

Oct 27, 2021

On November 20, International Rights of Children Day, Rael, spiritual leader of the Raelian Movement, will launch the first Sex Education Day to promote early sexual education of children as recommended by experts in the 2009 UNESCO report on early sex education, according to a statement released today by the International Raelian Movement (IRM).

“Rael has repeatedly expressed his support for the unabridged UNESCO report,” said Clemence Linard, Raelian Guide and spokesperson for Sex Education Day. He was disappointed when the original UNESCO report, based on more than 80 scientific studies, was heavily edited and toned down. Unfortunately, there was active lobbying against the unabridged report by organizations like FamilyWatch that have strong ties to Christian churches.”

An important tenet of Raelian philosophy stresses the importance of removing guilt associated with sexual pleasure.

“Experts on sexual education also recognize the importance of removing such guilt, and only they should decide what content will contribute best to children’s healthy development at the right age and for the rest of their lives,” Linard said. “Parents’ religious beliefs should no more interfere with the content of sexual education than they do with the content of math education."

The IRM is planning worldwide actions to promote UNESCO’s 2009 sex education guidelines (see http://www.rael.org/request.php?386), according to Linard.

“We’re requesting that the original UNESCO report be re-edited,” she said. “The unabridged version recommended explaining masturbation to children at age 5 to 8, and we want that recommendation and others reinserted.”

“This scientific, accurate [UNESCO 2009] report expresses the exact values taught by the Raelian Movement philosophy,” Rael said in an earlier IRM statement. “These wonderful, scientific recommendations are perfectly in line with the Raelian teachings as shared by the [extraterrestrial] scientists who created us.”

www.rael.org/SexEdDay

https://www.facebook.com/SxEdDay/

>>17875398

>“The unabridged version recommended explaining masturbation to children at age 5 to 8, and we want that recommendation and others reinserted.”

>>17875426

over the target

>>17875430

NOTABLE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpmGo3Skz74

On November 20, International Rights of Children Day, Rael, spiritual leader of the Raelian Movement, will launch the first Sex Education Day to promote early sexual education of children as recommended by experts in the 2009 UNESCO report on early sex education, according to a statement released today by the International Raelian Movement (IRM).

“Rael has repeatedly expressed his support for the unabridged UNESCO report,” said Clemence Linard, Raelian Guide and spokesperson for Sex Education Day. He was disappointed when the original UNESCO report, based on more than 80 scientific studies, was heavily edited and toned down. Unfortunately, there was active lobbying against the unabridged report by organizations like FamilyWatch that have strong ties to Christian churches.”

An important tenet of Raelian philosophy stresses the importance of removing guilt associated with sexual pleasure.

“Experts on sexual education also recognize the importance of removing such guilt, and only they should decide what content will contribute best to children’s healthy development at the right age and for the rest of their lives,” Linard said. “Parents’ religious beliefs should no more interfere with the content of sexual education than they do with the content of math education."

The IRM is planning worldwide actions to promote UNESCO’s 2009 sex education guidelines (see http://www.rael.org/request.php?386), according to Linard.

“We’re requesting that the original UNESCO report be re-edited,” she said. “The unabridged version recommended explaining masturbation to children at age 5 to 8, and we want that recommendation and others reinserted.”

“This scientific, accurate [UNESCO 2009] report expresses the exact values taught by the Raelian Movement philosophy,” Rael said in an earlier IRM statement. “These wonderful, scientific recommendations are perfectly in line with the Raelian teachings as shared by the [extraterrestrial] scientists who created us.”

>>17875438

>over the target

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>>17875371

>>17875459

>NOTABLE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT9jnmra3bk

SexEd Day: For a Sex Education from childhood, including masturbation/self-pleasuring information

Nov 20, 2021

November 20 is World Children's Day ! Let's celebrate the 7th annual Sex Education Day to promote early sex education as recommended by experts in the 2009 UNESCO report.

"Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE), as defined in the report, is exactly what international spiritual leader, Rael, has been advocating and teaching for more than 45 years. The goal is to give children and adolescents a sex education and tools that are adapted to their age and culture, and that emphasize pleasure, fulfillment and well-being in terms of sexual health as defined by the WHO" Clemence Linard, M.A., sexologist and spokesperson for SexEd Day.

Children are particularly vulnerable when kept in the dark about their sexuality and early sex education, according to the Raelian philosophy, must also include acknowledging the importance of pleasure while removing guilt and shame associated with sexual pleasure.

“Those who oppose the sex education program that is based on science, are simply conditioned to sexual guilt by their medieval Christian upbringing. They say they are opposed to the so-called 'sexualization' of children… Wake up dinosaurs! Children are sexual from birth and even before! Sexuality education simply allows them to avoid developing guilt about their own sexuality,” Rael said.

“Comprehensive Sex Education teaches the youth that sexuality is a normal and healthy part of human life that can allow them to make more informed decisions later in life. This includes information on masturbation/self-pleasuring from childhood to simply understand how their body works and that self-stimulation is normal and healthy” emphasized Clemence Linard.

In 2009, following pressure from Christian lobbyists, UNESCO censored one of their reports that talked about teaching masturbation from age 5. For the past twelve years, we have been campaigning to have this language reinstated in the UNESCO report, but no change yet. It is absolutely outrageous for a scientific report to be censored as a consequence of backward religious pressures.

If we cannot work towards normalizing sex-positive messages about masturbation to reduce associated feelings of shame, guilt and fear, as well as improve the overall sexual health and literacy in children, this will undoubtedly negatively impact their physical and mental well-being in the long term.

www.rael.org/SexEdDay

www.facebook.com/SxEdDay

www.instagram.com/sexedday

https://raelnews.org/sexed-in-the-u-s.html

SexEd in the U.S.

It is crucial to continue to help young people navigate all the choices they face because they have the right to lead sexually healthy lives, and comprehensive sex education is the foundation for helping them to become sexually healthy adults.

By Felix Clairvoyant, Ph.D., Doctor in Sexology, and Raelian Guide

"We're sexual beings from the time we're born until we die, and we need to make sure we understand our sexuality and realize that sex is about more than procreation." – Dr. Joycelyn Elders

This is a great quote by Dr. Joycelyn Elders who was the first African American appointed as Surgeon General of the United States in 1993. She was forced to resign a year later because of her outspoken views about drugs and sexuality, and we can thank the ultra-conservative movement in the U.S. for that. She advocated drug legalization, distributing contraception in public schools, and condoned the idea of teaching schoolchildren to masturbate as a way of avoiding the spread of the AIDS virus. Dr. Elders even publicly criticized the Catholic Church for its opposition to abortion. As the 20th century was coming to an end, she was undoubtedly a controversial figure who was not afraid to speak her mind.

When, in 1994, Dr. Elders was invited to speak at a United Nations conference on AIDS, she was asked whether it would be appropriate to promote masturbation as a means of preventing young people from engaging in riskier forms of sexual activity, and she replied, "I think that it is part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught." She was never invited again and got fired shortly after.

Another controversial figure who has never been afraid to speak his mind and criticize the Catholic Church, or any other traditional religion for that matter, is international spiritual leader and teacher, Rael – founder of the International Raelian Movement (see Raelian Movement), which is arguably the most pro-SexEd and sex-positive religious movement in our modern era. For years now, Rael has been and continues to be very vocal in publicly expressing outrage each time human rights, sexual rights, and freedom of expression are violated. Through social activism, the International Raelian Movement has always been and will continue to be in the forefront for many years to come when little is done to deal with social crimes and injustices*.

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SexEd Day, International Awareness campaign for Childhood Sexuality Education

On Nov. 20, 2015, the first annual SexEd Day (sex education day) (see SexEd Day) was introduced by Rael and launched by the International Raelian Movement (IRM). Rael has long advocated the necessity of early sex education for children and young adults in order to eliminate fear, frustration, and taboos, which are factors that not only contribute to sexual repression but also to sexual inequalities, discrimination, and crimes. Children are especially vulnerable when kept in the dark regarding their sexuality. The goal of this annual campaign is also to promote a more holistic approach to sex education that emphasizes pleasure as opposed to procreation. Comprehensive sex education for children and adolescents must be adapted to their age and culture, and must emphasizes pleasure, fulfillment, and well-being as part of any well-structured sexual health programs.

In 2009, a UNESCO report based on 80 different studies and written by renowned experts in the field of human sexuality was published with recommendations for early sex education. The report showed that in countries where students completed comprehensive sex education, they were found to be more assertive and better communicators. These same experts even recommended that masturbation be taught to children as young as 5 years old! Comprehensive sex education is precisely what the Raelian philosophy has been advocating for decades, including the teaching of masturbation to children from age five as well as sensual education and pleasure. Unfortunately, some of the recommendations found in the UNESCO report were met with strong opposition from conservative and religious groups, and were ultimately removed because UNESCO could not withstand the pressure. Consequently, a watered down version of the report was later published, thanks to these religious groups who are specialists at spreading fear propaganda and at promoting guilt and shame on all matters related to sexuality and pleasure. The reality is that no anti-sex or sex-phobic religion should have any say or authority on these matters.

To this end, the annual SexEd Day was also launched to decry this type of censorship and blackmail resulting from pressure by a religious institution. The International Raelian Movement has been calling for the original version of the UNESCO report on sex education to be published again (see Unesco-09) and, once and for all, to respect the views of sex experts who are in a better position to understand the benefits that early sex education for children can provide. In addition, the IRM has also been calling for all governments to implement these fundamental guiding principles. As expressed by Rael, "What a five-year-old should learn is something that must be decided by scientists, not by priests who just want to keep the population under the power of superstitions from the Middle Ages."

Nearly 10 years after UNESCO’s first report, a fully updated report entitled, “International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education” was recently published (2018) to reaffirm its position and encourage countries to design comprehensive sexuality education in order to promote health and well-being, respect for human rights, and gender equality.

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United States: No separation of Church & State, and much less of Church & Sex

Unfortunately, the way sexuality is viewed in the U.S. has not changed much in the nearly 25 years that have passed since Dr. Elders was forced to resign. And today, as we continue to face a social, cultural, and medical revolution in our understanding of human sexuality, even if a wide variety of ways have emerged in the arts, popular culture, and on the Internet for its public expression, our society as a whole still hasn’t recognized that every person—young or old—should have the right to the pursuit of a satisfying sexual life free from political, legal, or religious interference.

Today, the state of sex education in the United States is unique because less than half of the states require schools to teach SexEd. As a result, a lot of information about sexuality is withheld from children and not only does this not contribute to keeping them safe, but it also keeps them ignorant. This is tragic! How could such an advanced society lag behind when it comes to sex education? One obvious answer is religion.

The problem in the U.S. is that there is still no separation of Church and State, and much less a separation of Church and Sex. Our politicians, who have deeply rooted religious convictions and most of whom are uncomfortable with the subject, are often pressured by the powerful Christian lobby to write antiquated laws that reflect what they deem to be “morally” right. This is what makes this country so contentiously divided on the issue of SexEd, why it’s up to the states to decide whether to implement it in schools or not, and what puts sex education all over the map, with no national consensus.

It goes without saying that scientific facts and research studies should always trump religious beliefs and traditions otherwise everything gets censored. Unfortunately, science doesn’t always have the last word and religions continue to play too powerful a role in how sexuality should be viewed, discussed, understood, and expressed. This will have to change soon because the more a given religion will keep negative views about sex, the more it will emphasize shame, guilt, and stigma around it… and this level of ignorance will always lead to lack of tolerance for sexual diversity and to sexual violence.

For many years now, there have only been two approaches to sex education in the United States: comprehensive sex education and abstinence-only sex education. Comprehensive sex education covers abstinence as a choice option, but also informs adolescents about human sexuality, age of consent, and the availability of contraception and techniques to avoid contraction of sexually transmitted infections. Abstinence-only sex education, on the other hand, emphasizes abstinence from sexual activity prior to marriage and rejects methods such as contraception. And despite research showing the ineffectiveness of the abstinence-only-until-marriage programs, and showing that abstinence-only education as a state policy is ineffective in preventing teenage pregnancy and may actually be contributing to the high teenage pregnancy rates in the U.S., the government continues to keep its head in the sand and fund such programs for states that agree to promote abstinence in their school curricula. In other words, states that do not subscribe to abstinence-only education will not receive any funding from the government.

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Providing a quality and solid sex education foundation is the only way to ensure that young people will grow into sexually healthy adults, especially when research data shows that the United States ranks first among developed nations in rates of both teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, and when statistics show that 95% of all Americans have sex before marriage and about half of all young people begin having sex by age 17. The persistent promotion of abstinence-only education, on the other hand, can only lead to shame, guilt, and an aversion to sexuality. Not to mention that children who don’t have access to quality comprehensive sex education will continue to rely on their peers and on the Internet to access information about sexuality, both of which are not the most effective and trusted ways to get reliable information on human sexuality.

In the big scheme of things, living in a pluralistic society with different and often conflicting values makes it doubtful that any public policy on human sexuality will ever please everyone. Therefore, it is imperative that we find a way to bridge the differences that exist and raise awareness of sexual issues in an impartial and objective manner. It is also crucial to continue to help young people navigate all the choices they face because they have the right to lead sexually healthy lives, and comprehensive sex education is the foundation for helping them to become sexually healthy adults. Additionally, providing a well-structured early sex education recommended by international experts can also help to stop all sex crimes plaguing our society.

Human sexuality has always and will continue to play a major role in everyone's life regardless of whether we are very young or very old, a man or a woman, or where we are from. It is an integral part of what we do and who we are…an integral part of being human. And knowledge, informed practice, and understanding can contribute greatly to our sexual well-being and help everyone become less judgmental of other people’s lifestyles, reproductive decisions, and sexual preferences, and respect and accept people of all sexual orientations and all sexual minorities.

The 4th International SexEd Day will take place on November 20th – same day as Universal Children's Day

SexEd Day on facebook : facebook.com/SxEdDay and Instagram : instagram.com/sexedday

• Social activism includes campaigns, protests, marches, rallies, demonstrations, and use of social media for actions such as GoTopless, Clitoraid, Proswastika, Nopedo, free condoms campaign…

** Social crimes and injustices include female genital mutilation (FGM), gender inequality, LGBTQ violence and discrimination, religious minority prejudices, sexism, criminalization of prostitution, vilification of pornography, pedophilia, and violence against women and children.

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>>17875594

First before my verse, make Boodah bless you

Because he blessed me, in form of smoke from a tree

With abilities to summon powers of the Dreaded Fist

As a lyricist, to the world as a terrorist

So from a distance, you see shrapnel and debris

And in an instant you've got to recognize it's me

>>17875651

Cause we run this, and it's a well known fact

Never miss, all veteran and specialist

Messing with the best? Please, you can't handle this

It's too scandalist and dangerous for those trying to be framing us

Enslave us, lining up our anuses and bust

But, I don't think so

Who the fuck you think this is?

>>17875666

https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1599401718466629632

A drag friendly drag show in Lakeland, Florida was surrounded by nazis calling for the death of the "pedophiles" inside. Cops surrounded the place and sat in there cars and did nothing. NatSoc Florida was responsible for this.

https://twitter.com/JenCousinsFL/status/1599259739430744065

Nazis targeted a kid friendly drag/music/art show tonight in Lakeland, FL. Attendees were stuck inside the venue when they surrounded the building and local cops just sat in their cars. This was at least the second rally against the LGBTQ community that happened in FL today.

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>>17875705

https://www.motika.com.mk/bizarna-religija-za-vonzemjani-povrzana-so-orgii-feminizam-i-plejboj/

I was gonna share that picture, but then I think I'd have to report myself

check it out

>>17875744

>https://www.motika.com.mk/bizarna-religija-za-vonzemjani-povrzana-so-orgii-feminizam-i-plejboj/

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Shocking new insider information that shows what really happened in Wuhan, China, at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak and in the ensuing cover-up.

The day that Dr. Andrew G. Huff left his senior scientist and vice president role at EcoHealth Alliance was one of the happiest days of his life due to the corruption he had witnessed at the organization. However, he never thought working there would be of any great consequence to the future. He was wrong. Because, as an EcoHealth Alliance insider, Dr. Huff had had a ringside seat to one of the biggest cover-ups in history.

The Truth about Wuhan contains new research and a breakdown of how and why the development of COVID-19 in the United States and China was supported by the US government to collect intelligence on laboratories in China. Dr. Huff, an expert in the fields of bioterrorism and bio warfare, is a whistleblower who will show why the reasons the lab leak was covered up are incorrect. He worked on the classified research side of the program as a US government scientist. He knows the real how and why COVID-19 emerged. Besides exposing the conspiracy and cover-up, Dr. Huff also puts forth policy solutions and recommendations to prevent a lab leak virus from plaguing the world again.

The Truth about Wuhan simply explains the complexity of the system that led to COVID-19’s emergence; how the medical industrial complex grew and became entrenched in gain of function work after 9/11; why EcoHealth Alliance was the (almost) perfect intelligence collection cover; the policy actions and decision-making process as to why the United States government engaged in the COVID cover-up; how and why the United States swapped biotechnology with China and biomedical corporations; and the incentives for each of the actors or governments to engage and coordinate a global cover-up of COVID-19 origins.

The Truth about Wuhan also shows how and why Dr. Anthony Fauci is intricately involved in the COVID cover-up; how scientists like EcoHealth Alliance president and CEO Dr. Peter Daszak rose to power and used their influence to corrupt science and the COVID origin investigation; and how the intelligence community likely orchestrated the cover-up with Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Dr. Huff also provides personal harrowing accounts of how the US government waged a psychological operation against him to prevent him from speaking out. COVID-19 is the biggest lie, scandal, and intelligence failure in US history, and Dr. Andrew G. Huff is stepping out of the shadows to share his insider story about this failure that led to millions of deaths around the world.

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