(AgapePress) - An annual summer sex education program offered by Planned Parenthood in Waco, Texas, is under fire for encouraging more teen promiscuity.

Local business owner Glenda Jones says for just $5, Waco middle school children got more than lunch and a T-shirt at yesterday's "Nobody's Fool" program sponsored by Planned Parenthood. The program, according to Planned Parenthood, is suitable for children entering grades 5 through 9 and provides them with "factual information about growing up, puberty, dating, relationships, sexual issues and sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS."

But Jones, who observed the program several years ago while working for a local school district, says one class offered graphic "how to" instructions on oral sex. For example, a licensed minister, she says, discussed oral sex with a group of 12-year-old boys. She relates what she witnessed.

"I got there just in time to hear the instructor apparently answer a question from one of the boys, because he took his marker and he pointed to this diagram and he said, 'Your tongue goes here,'" Jones says.

Jones describes the response of the boys. "[I]f you can imagine ... half of them were just uncontrollably laughing -- the other half, their eyes literally were glazed over," she says. "They were stunned; it was clearly obvious they had never thought of that before."

According to Jones, one of the classrooms for young girls contained a dozen posters with disturbing open-ended questions such as: "Have you ever been attracted to someone of the same sex? A family member? What did you do about it?" -- and "Have you ever fantasized about being with someone much older? Much younger?"

While Jones admits she did not stay for the discussion in that classroom, she offers this observation: "From what I saw, how could anyone imagine what type of discussions would be going on in that room?"

Jones says it is unfortunate that some local churches brought their young people to the instructional program -- a program that parents are not allowed to attend. But it is fortunate, she says, that this summer the McLennan County Collaborative Abstinence Project (McCAP) is offering an effective abstinence program to counter "Nobody's Fool."

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