Fistgate Was Good for Teenagers, says Rob Woronoff of Home for Little Wanderers

September 2001

The lessons on fisting that were taught to teenagers in March 2000 were exactly what we should be teaching our youth, says Rob Woronoff of the Home for Little Wanderers.

The Home for Little Wanderers is the largest child-welfare agency in New England and the oldest of its kind in the nation. It provides services to over 10,000 children and families each year.

Woronoff says that AIDS is contracted by homosexuals through anal intercourse and 59% of the boys in Massachusetts do not use condoms when they have sex with men.

Therefore, we should be teaching them the mechanics of anal sex and other homosexual acts in order to prevent their contracting AIDS, Woronoff wrote in the Globe last month.

His theory is that instead of teaching the youngsters about the dangers of homosexual sex, particularly with older men, we should encourage them to use condoms when they have that sex. Woronoff advocates this despite the fact that the most Herculean attempts to get adult homosexuals across the country to use condoms have failed miserably. Their usage is becoming less in recent years and the rate of HIV is rising again across the country.

He is also accepting the discredited “gay gene” theory that homosexuals are all born that way and they have no choice in the matter. Therefore, he believed that if any young boy believes he is different, we should send him to a homosexual activist like Woronoff to learn how to be sexually active, homosexual style.

Woronoff says that our error came when the legislature yielded to political pressures after Fistgate and mandated that state funding could not be used for this type of “sex education” in the future.

Woronoff is director of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Services and Peer Programs at this home for children who need help in their lives.

‘Gay Pride March’ Was Gagged

This year’s Gay Pride March should have been distributing condoms and other material, wrote Woronoff, but they were not allowed to do so because of the fallout from Fistgate.

“This event would seem like a great opportunity to get some clear messages out regarding safer sex including brochures, referral information, condoms, etc. But organizations serving gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered youth were asked not to distribute condoms or HIV-related materials during the event,” he wrote.

Woronoff believes, “It is common sense, in light of these data, that programs working with these youth be encouraged to focus a great deal of energy trying to reduce the instances of unprotected intercourse.”

But as a result of Fistgate, he reports that “the politically fraught outcome of this workshop” caused the legislature to insert into the budget for gay youth for the first time that no money could be used for sex education.

He believes that the problem lies with our “discomfort” with sex. He reported, “Decision makers must look past our society’s discomfort with sex and focus on the real and present dangers facing youth.”

One must wonder what this man is teaching to those unfortunate young people who are sent by DSS and others to the Little Wanderers for care and counseling or for a safe place to live.

It appears that the Little Wanderers endorses Woronoff’s statement.