WATCH ABOVE: Sanford Johnson demonstrates how to engage in safe sock activity.
A Mississippi policy advocate is recommending using a sock to get around the state’s abstinence-based sexual education laws.
In the state, teachers are prevented from showing teens how to use condoms. So Sanford Johnson got creative.
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“If you’re going to be engaged in a sock activity,” says Johnson in his YouTube video, “I want to make sure that you have on a sock.”
In “How to Put On a Sock,” he demonstrates rolling the sock all the way up the foot, being sure to not stop half way. He also stresses the importance of holding the top of the sock to keep it in place as the foot is removed from the shoe.
“Make sure that you use a sock, each and every time,” Johnson concludes.
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According to Centres for Disease Control reports, in 2011 Mississippi had the second-highest rate of teen pregnancy in the U.S, and was national runner-up for cases of chlamydia and gonorrhea.
Johnson works as the deputy director of advocacy for Mississippi First, an organization committed to “advancing the best education policy ideas.”
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