#I believe sex ed has to look different according to the ages it’s taught to

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AP English III - Essay

Sex, Stigma, and Students

This society is surrounded by myths about sex, and about people’s very own bodies. From girls who start menstruating at 9 and boys growing facial hair at 10. to the teens and adults who do not know the ins and outs of birth control; every person deserves to know vital information about their body. Sex education needs to be built upon, enriched, and improved for three reasons: there are far too many harmful myths about sex, people who do not conform to heterosexual standards are left in the dust, and non-abstinence programs have been shown to be more effective.

Sex education, how detailed and at what age, has always been a hot topic. Where did it all begin? Support for this movement started in the 1800s, emphasizing upon risk-reductive habits to help prevent cholera and syphilis. Groups hopped on this bandwagon, making it necessary in the national curriculum before puberty. The trend continued into the 1900s when the first birth control clinic was opened, and even more groups joined the league of sex education: such as the U.S Public Health Service, U.S government, American Medical Association, and so forth. The Birth Control Federation became Planned Parenthood in 1942, and there was a nationwide program in family life education. Despite these movements in favor of ‘sex ed’, in 1975, 20 states voted to restrict or abolish sexuality education. In the 80’s an act to start promoting abstinence before marriage was passed. Abstinence has always been a huge portion of teaching, even today, although in 2008 a total of 25 states has rejected funding for abstinence-only programs (Advocatesforyouth.org).

The first reason that sex education needs to be empowered rather than overlooked is that this first world society is littered with harmful myths about sex, and about the body. Just to name a few, a female’s first time is not supposed to hurt, hymens do not really tear so there should be no blood. The only time any of that happens is likely when the female is not actually aroused and this myth of “cherry popping” adds onto the trope of men’s needs coming first; especially in a sexual environment. There are also many people who believe, or likely were not taught otherwise, that oral sex cannot get a person pregnant, and this can lead some people to believe the best way to be safe is to actually throw up after sex (Newsome). Many people also think that porn is an activity only the male population partakes in, yet a study found that one out of three women watches it at least once a week (WITW). Many females feel ostracized and immoral for doing taking part in an activity that most people of both genders do, and it should be normalized instead of being laced with current double standards. Another extremely common misbelief is that to be amazing at sex, a man must have a penis length far above average, and often this causes insecurity among the males with this body part; along with stress and anxiety if they are average, below average, or not a whopping 12 inches. Aesthetics aside, four to five inches does what it needs to in sex, considering a female’s actual vaginal length is only four to five inches when aroused. The list goes on and on; there are countless myths about sex that continue to stigmatize most of the population, and really just instill shame in exploring teenagers. A school’s sex ed needs to debunk these common, but wrong beliefs with dignity and understanding.

According to a National Health Survey, around, “2.3 percent of US citizens identify as gay or bisexual” (Somashekhar). That might seem a touch small when it is taken into account that less than 50 percent of teens today identify as heterosexual (Brathwaite). Considering only half of the middle schoolers and high schoolers today say they are straight, we need to start addressing sexuality in sexual education classes. An innumerable amount of coming-out stories involve the words, “I thought I was broken,” or “I thought something was wrong with me”. That should never be the case; that a teen goes through schooling thinking that he or she is alone, broken, too young to make these decisions. It is simple, whether or not all of the public supports the LGBT+ group, different genders and sexualities do exist and the youth should not suffer because of this. Explaining early that people can identify differently and love anyone they want would save so many people large amounts of heartbreak and confusion as a teenager. Even if schools only had to cover the basics: being gay, bisexual, straight, or asexual. Asexuality is one that is often brushed off, considered to be some sort false identity made up for purposes like attention. In fact, most people do not even know that it exists, but regardless it does and there are in fact people who do not feel sexual attraction. Sex Ed needs to reassure those students that abstinence is okay, having sex is okay, but also just not feeling sexual attraction is okay. Heteronormative teachings leave several groups of teens in the dust, feeling outcast.

Not only is sex education supposed to be there to teach us that differences are to be embraced and to debunk myths, it also should not be abstinence-only based, and there are more than enough statistics to prove it. National data shows that more comprehensive sex education teaching is actually more effective at lowering teen pregnancy than only teaching abstinence. This makes sense; that if teens are going to have sex, then they’re going to do so no matter how many times a burly gym teacher says, “abstinence is the only way you can be TOTALLY safe!”, but if teens are taught how to have sex responsibly, then it is safer for all parties involved. In fact, “47 percent of high school teens have reported being sexually active in 2013” (Mcgee). That is half of high school students, so no one can say that it is not important enough. Teaching abstinence only is like saying “You want to learn how to be a safer swimmer? Just don’t swim!” This mentality is not beneficial to teens, and the data proves this. Regardless of whether the students would rather stay abstinent or not, the fact is that the teachings associated with it are often twisted and misleading, “Representative Henry A. Waxman released  a report showing that over 80 percent of federally funded abstinence-only-until-marriage programs use curricula that distort information about the effectiveness of contraceptives, misrepresent the risks of abortion, blur religion and science, treat stereotypes about girls and boys as scientific fact, and contain basic scientific errors”(“Top Five Reasons”). Even if not having sex until marriage is the path some want to take, it should be because they have been well educated in an unbiased and truthful way. This is further backed by the fact that only 19 states actually call for teaching that is medically accurate (Karimi). Less than half of this country’s teens could be getting properly informed about their bodies, and how to protect them. Looking at the map below, it highlights just how skewed this abstinence-based system is. In these states, they assume that telling the students not to have sex will be enough, without a single lesson on any sort of birth control methods. (Klein) It is obvious that relying only on the teachings of abstinence is not only irresponsible, but it works only based on a select few moral beliefs. In fact, the data of the passage written by Karimi says that “comprehensive learning was 50 percent more effective than teaching abstinence.” That is no coincidence.

One main point that opposers usually throw out is that “Kids and teens are too young!” Usually, they think that until a student is in high school or late middle school can they be exposed to the mature concepts involving their own body. They also generally believe that sexual discussions in detail are too inappropriate for preteens and teenagers. Along with and often fueled by these morals comes common misconceptions on how sex education would be handled in a younger environment, which is shown in “Start Proper Sex Education Early”: with parents assuming that it would start in kindergarten, and expose their children to porn, and teach them how to masturbate. In the same article, more parents have called early sex ed “disgusting” and that “[sex ed] rapes their children of innocence”. In teaching sex early, it would likely be taught in simple terms; certainly nothing that would be inappropriate to show at any age of audience. Even so, when is it ‘too young’ to learn about the bodily functions that start anywhere from nine to 14? Sex should be talked about openly, rather than made oppressive and taboo. Many girls get embarrassed and shamed for talking about their periods, but why? It is a natural bodily occurrence that should be embraced with a person’s femininity. Males should be exposed and well-versed in this too, considering it affects half the human population every month. Many teens do not come to their parents with questions and concerns because they wait too long to have a real, honest discussion with them about sex (if ever at all). Parent’s should start early and are open with their children about the most necessary function of survival of humans, sex, and the important themes within that such as menstruation, it would leave less room for this shame to talk about it.

Another huge argument on the other side is that topics like sex are material that parents need to teach their children themselves. This is an educational step that some parents think is personal, and they do not want their children learning information that they do not think that they should. A parent, though their intentions could be morally right, can often be biased; and they should not get to decide what is and is not relevant for their child. That is not to say that a parent cannot be the first to teach their kid; if they start having these discussions earlier, as stated in the refutation above, then they would get to have that personal conversation with their child regardless. Another reason why it should not just be left to the parents to teach is that just like most people are lost in these sexual myths, often adults and even said parents are too. They can be, and probably are, just as easily misled as anyone else, so who knows if what they are teaching their kids is even correct? Although in some states teachers can be just as choosy with what they teach as parents, it is at least done in a more open and stress-free environment. Often teens feel embarrassed to ask their parents questions, and sweat over the dreaded “sex talk”, but in a classroom with peers that are in that same boat; there are much less pressure and shame. Anyone of any age can be biased, easily swayed, or uneducated in some fields of knowledge, and even more likely the parents, thinking they know best for their children. Considering that simple understanding; unless they are a doctor, or so well knowledged that they could write a textbook on sexual education, it is probably best left to the teachers to educate the masses on how to stay safe sexually.

Although sex education has come far, there is still so much on the horizon that the necessary teachings should strive for. Sex education should be expanded upon, and well refined. Students should be corrected about toxic myths, should be taught about differences in sexuality, and should be taught more than just, “you can have safe sex by not having any at all”. Once people start being open about sex, is the moment that many of the stigmas and confusion plaguing it can be eliminated.

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Brathwaite, Les Fabian. "Less Than 50% of Teens Identify as Straight, Says New Study." Out

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Transcript of Podcast

Dylan Gribble

WRD 110

Podcast Draft

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So.. let's talk about sex. You know it, you love it. Whatever your sexual habits may be, sex is an important part of life.

Having sex is intimate and you should be able to trust the person you’re having sex with. Your partner should be able to keep you safe and protect you from diseases.

But, how would you feel if it turned out that your partner knew nothing about how to protect him or herself from diseases or how to prevent unwanted pregnancy?

As scary as it may sound, with our country's’ status-quo for teaching sexual education, more and more teens do not know how to protect themselves or their partners when having sex.

The cause for this lack of education is because of widespread abstinence-only classes all over the nation.  

The fundamental goals of abstinence-only classes are to prevent teen pregnancy,  the spread of STD’s, and onset of sexual activity through the teaching of abstinence before marriage.

Before I can go into the negative consequences of abstinence-only education we have to go back and look at the history of sex ed in our country.

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In the United States sexual education began as early as 1910. However, these classes were very basic and they emphasized the idea of abstinence into the mind of each student. This outdated form of sex ed continued until around the 1960’s.

People began to adopt free love and free expression in the sixties. This brought new and needed views about sex and created a new form of sexual education that aimed to replace abstinence-only.

This new form of sexual education was called comprehensive sex ed. Comprehensive classes teaches students about proper protection including uses of contraceptives.

Support for comprehensive classes became widespread through the 60’s and 70’s. In fact, according to Bill McCarthy there was “a substantial popular and political support for comprehensive sex education programs”. Unfortunately this support abruptly ended in the 1980’s.

In 1981 Congress passed a bill called the Chastity Act. This was the first time in our history that the federal government supported an abstinence-only education bill. The bill vowed the set aside $100-$135 million every year to schools who teach abstinence-only education to students.

I get it. You’re wondering, why this bill is so harmful to our society?

It’s because in order to receive funding, when teaching an abstinence class teachers have to follow a set of eight guidelines produced by the Chastity Act. These guidelines are psychologically dangerous to students because they state harmful, incorrect facts. According to Kay Perrin one guideline tells teachers to teach that bearing children out-of-wedlock is likely to have harmful consequences for the child, the child’s parent, and society. This is extremely offensive and would cause harm many student in the classroom. Since a lot of children in our country have single parents, if a child of single parents heard this lecture it would likely have lasting consequences and make the child feel inadequate and unloved.

As if these harmful guidelines weren’t enough to make you want to throw abstinence education in the past forever, abstinence-only classes also teach students innacurate information.

In one abstinence-only program called “Why kNOw Abstinence Education”, which by the way is government funded,  teachers tell their students that “the condom has a 14% failure rate in preventing pregnancy”.

However, this claim is completely false. The 14% failure rate of condoms only applies to users who put the condom on in the middle of intercourse, rip the package with their teeth, or only use a condom every other time they have sex.

Students should have access to correct information about contraception so they can feel comfortable with potentially having sex instead of being scared by false facts that are meant to make sex seem scary.

Before going any further, I want to make one thing clear. The idea of abstinence itself is not harmful to students. In fact I believe that it is healthy for students to be taught about abstinence as an option.

Abstinence classes need to be replaced not because of what they teach, but because of what they don’t teach.

Since abstinence classes do not teach students anything about contraception they are left in the dark about how to prevent diseases and pregnancy.

This lack of knowledge can be seen empirically when looking at data about STD’s and pregnancy throughout our country.

For example, not only does the United States have the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the developed world, but the United States also has the highest rates of STD’s in the developed world. By age 25 one in two people in the United States will have or have had some type of STD. On the other hand, in a more progressive country like the Netherlands that teaches comprehensive classes, only 17% of their entire population has or has had an STD according to the World Health Organization.

Also, in Mississippi, the state with the strictest abstinence-education laws, the teen pregnancy rate is the highest in the country at 60% more than the national average. On the other hand, Vermont has adopted comprehensive education classes and they are the state with the lowest rate of teen pregnancy.

To show how abstinence-only classes do a disservice to students by not properly educating them about contraception and reproduction, I invited my friend Kolton in so he could demonstrate his knowledge about sexual education. Kolton went to a private Catholic school where abstinence-only education was taught. To test Kolton's knowledge I have compiled a list of five basic questions that every male and female should know about sex. Lets see how he does.

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Dylan: “Hi Kolton! Welcome, Thank you for coming.”

Kolton: “Thank you for having me.”

Dylan: “Okay so, my first question to you is: how many days can live sperm stay in the vagina?”

Kolton: “Maybe one or two.”

Dylan: “You’re kind of correct. Live sperm can actually live in the vagina for two to five days. Meaning, even days after a woman has had sex she can still get pregnant.”

Kolton: “Oh wow okay”

Dylan: “Alright, next question. Can a woman get pregnant while on her period?”

Kolton: “No she can not.”

Dylan: “Actually, even though it is pretty rare a woman can get pregnant on her period.”

Kolton: “Wow I had no idea.”

Dylan:  “Question three. What type of lube causes condoms to break?”

Kolton: “I would have to say.. Water based lubrication.”

Dylan: “That is incorrect, you’re actually supposed to use water based lubricant. It is actually oil based lube that causes condoms to break. Okay Question number four. Do you know the difference between a bacterial STD and a viral STD?”

Kolton: “I have no idea.”

Dylan: “Well, a viral STD is something like herpes or AIDs that you have your whole life, but a bacterial STD is curable or treatable.”

“Kolton: Interesting.”

“Dylan: Alright! Last Question. If a woman decides to take a Plan B pill, how many days does she have to take it before it becomes ineffective?”

Kolton: “She only has one day to take it.”

Dylan: “Actually she hasn five days”

Kolton: “Oh wow”

Dylan: “Yes. Well, I am sorry you didn’t do better, but thank you for coming!”

Kolton: “Thank you for having me, I had a lot of fun.”

As you just heard, Kolton is clearly uneducated when it comes to sexual education. This lack of education is due to the abstinence-only classes he took in private school.

If Kolton’s interview did not do enough to show the ineffectiveness of abstinence programs, recently the National Campaign to Prevent Pregnancy has run several tests to compare abstinence-only classes to comprehensive classes.

The tests found that none of the abstinence-only programs showed any changes in participants onset of sex, frequency of sex, number of partners, and protection like condoms used. On the other hand, when students took a comprehensive class they had sex later in life and with less partners. This proves that comprehensive classes are better because they helped students make healthy choices.

It is clear that abstinence-only classes are not sustainable for our nation because they do not teach students how to protect themselves from diseases or pregnancy and as a result our nation has some of the worst disease and pregnancy rates in the world. If this is the case, why are abstinence-only classes still so widespread?

Abstinence-classes are still so common in the country because of federal funding. Currently our Congress in over 90% Protestant Catholic. Abstinence is a key part of the protestant religion. This religion has even started several abstinence programs of its own aimed at promoting abstinence in teens.

Most of the Catholic Congressmen constituents are also catholic meaning they too hold abstinence in a high regard. Since Congressmen represent their constituents, they will continue to support abstinence programs to keep voters happy. This is a fact that will not change in our country any time soon

In the United States, schools are hugely underfunded and they are usually eager to receive any type of federal funding. It is likely very appealing for a school to be able to receive funding for the sole reason of teaching one topic over another. If a school decided to make the change to a comprehensive sex ed class they would lose significant funding and this would cause budget cuts.

As far as the future goes, comprehensive education will likely never become widespread because it just can not compete with federal money. However, there is one tiny glimmer of hope for future generations.

A new form of sexual education called abstinence-plus has been created and it may start to gain traction through grass root parental organizations. Abstinence-plus focuses on abstinence and teaches students that it is still the best option but it also teaches students about contraception and protection. Since abstinence-plus still focuses on abstinence it will be interesting to see if the federal government will adopt this method in the future.

But for now, all we have is abstinence education and it's our job to make more and more people see how flawed the system is so they will want to change it.

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Japanese sex education which has been recognized as taboo.   Is it okay to keep going in this way?

source: Yahoo news Japan

24 May 2017 released

 l wonder how you learned "sex education" at school. There might be people who say "I didn't learn at all". In the Japanese society which is somehow taboo to talk about "sex" in public, it was often pointed out as it's "lack of sex education" comparing with other countries. 

In this article we want to take notice of sex education following last article(released on 23rd May) which discussed abortion issue from medical field. First of all, we introduce the case of former teacher who has experience of repeating the class in high school with an 'abortion' theme.  The class which seems 'abnormal' in current Japanese society, has etched deeply in mind of graduates. (Yahoo! news editorial department of special section)

([The first volume] 180 thousand a year   The scene of abortion--How we deal with "Un-wished pregnancy")

Showing the scene of abortion in the class

In this report we made 1 video. The main character is former teacher of International Christian University High School (Koganei, Tokyo), Heikichi(/Hirayoshi) Arima (68yo). In the high school class every year he chose the topic "abortion" and made his students think about "the value of life".

Mr. Arima said at the end of the video looking back the time of being teacher.

"I'd almost never thought doing the class of sex education. But I said "The sex issue is humanity theme".  As a result without expecting, I might had done effective class. Even now when I met graduates they remember about the class even it was decades ago, it should have affected their acts in several scenes. Teaching a stamen and pistil doesn't make any sense."

Are you wondering how his classes were like? In the video you find comments by his students and thoughts of graduates. Take your time to watch.(The video is in the original link)

Researchers "Are they okay, students?"

We visited the researcher deploring "Japanese sex education is horrible". Mayumi Taniguchi, an associate professor of Osaka International University. She has studied the population problem, women rights and bioethics and she also shows up on TV as commentator. She said that she'd seen how poor the sex knowledges of students is over 10 years, through her lectures in University.

"How youngsters at this era study sex? The answers is adult video. 

It's full of fantasy from male side. Those don't have scene of putting condom on  according to my friend who's studied adult video. That's why there's children who don't know how to wear condom. I worry about them." 

Taniguchi said that the place where children get sex knowledge is almost Internet, as the number of those youngsters increased there's students believing wrong information from the Internet."Few days ago one student said to me. --Even if a sperm went inside, they would die if we washed with coke after the fact.-- Then I answered that they wouldn't die definitely. 100%. And he still said "But I saw in the Internet."

Wrong sex knowledge is rampant today---. There are many experts pointing out that. Taniguchi is the one of them, she says "Isn't it the result of after we avoided proper sex education in school?" She thinks the background is the way of thinking "Don't wake up sleeping children". In other words, if we spread sex knowledge, youngsters would get crazy to have sex and might become trouble.Taniguchi objected to this idea squarely.

"It's important to wake child up in time." by Taniguchi 

 Some people say "Because we teach discrimination, they do discriminate." But it's not. It's important to wake children up in time. Because we say only "That district has been discriminated." without teaching them background that's why the discrimination becomes rampant. In the same way, "If we provided sex education in their early age they get crazy", that would never be true today as children are surrounded by lots of adult videos or sexual information.

Japanese enthusiastic sex education in 1990

 Actually, there was a time Japanese school was enthusiastic for sex education. It's about 10 years from 1992 called "the first year of sex education". AIDS panic in 1980s triggered the idea "necessary of education for prevention of AIDS contagion" and then the points of study was revised. 

Through "science" and new subject "health and physical", "sex" was started to be taught properly from elementary school.

It was said that was after 2000 when the trend got changed. The start was withdrawing disturbance of "Love & body book for adolescents", the book made for junior high students by the foundation Mother and child health association. 

The book introduced how to wear condom and pills, and they got criticized as "promotion for sexual action of junior high students" in the Diet in 2002. 

Eventually, the book was all withdrawn. At this time, the criticism "extreme sex education is rampant in school" or "is it okay to teach how to have sex in the class" became strong by media, the Diet and local Diet.

"Japanese sex education has stopped for 10 years" 

 Professor emerita Noriko Hashimoto in women nutrition university said "By sex education bashing in 2000, Japanese sex education has stopped since then". 

She has studied sex education of all the countries of the world mainly Europe for 30 years. We're wondering what's the biggest difference between Japanese and European sex education for her, the pioneer of the study.

Ms Hashimoto explained "European countries are trying to teach human sex directly through 1 unit or 1 textbook. But in Japan, it's separated to the subjects of science or health and others. In the science textbook you find just only half a page or 1 page. The structure of body, the relation between opposite sex and current sex problem. Schools in Japan don't teach those together.

"For example France”. According to Hashimoto, there is a unit ‘women and men’ in the creature field of ‘science’ in high school in France. “The book says everything women and men need to learn". 

The structure of body, pregnancy, and giving birth. In addition to those fundamental things they learn several methods of contraception concretely in junior high school. 

Also high schools (in France) introduces latest scientific knowledge about cause of sterility and sterility treat."

In France they teach life ethics and assistant reproductive medical treatment. Moreover, they also teach several type of human existence including LGBT, human rights, sex chromosome, sex-decisive gene and so on."

 Europe "teaching human totally"In the case of Finland, not science like France but they set unit "human" in the field "human biology". 

 The textbooks in junior high and high explained "sex and reproduction of human" physiologically. For example, the topics range from the percentage of occurrence of chromosome aberration comparing with mother's age, falling pregnancy rate, and sterility treatment etc. 

In Germany there's unit "first dating" in biology textbook for the age between 13 to 16, and at the end the methods of contraception with condoms and pills are written in detail."European sex education is to provide information to children and let them debate. Including human rights they teach human totally. This is their big feature."  

Meanwhile in Asian countries such as China, Korea and Taiwan they started sex education following "International sexuality education guidance" published by UNESCO in 2009. Toward the current, Hashimoto insists, "Is it alright that Japanese sex education still has stopped?"

Teachers in class room are at a loss and have been tormented 

It's hard to find out which education is appropriate if we need to implement sex education in schools. In fact we heard the voice "sex education is difficult" from teachers we interviewed in "teaching seminar" which was held in Takamatsu in March.

 One male teacher who's been an assistant principal talked like below."Text books(of sex education), teaching materials and so on, they(the border of how far teachers should teach) are vague different from other subjects. 

Where should we stop? If we just gave children interests, it might cause some trouble. I guess there are many teachers thinking that way. "One femal teacher in junior high school confessed that "It's hard to say if it's better to teach how to use condom in the class for example." and continued "And in textbooks, those things haven't been written that far. I know we should talk about sex education deeper, but class time ends with teaching things in textbooks. 

One male teacher in high school "Everyone(students) are interested in sex, although they try to put those things away because of shyness. They are thinking it's embarrassing to discuss." 

How can we get rid of that shyness?

 "Sex is the closest subject for us and it's the theme we have to think seriously. Also the side of us, teachers have to be serious it's meaningless to give the lessons half jokingly. 

Sex and love-- "Of course we collide if we think about human"

We asked Mr. Arima, former teacher of International Christian University high school who we introduced in the video at the beginning. "Do you think the sex education in Japan is fragmentary compared to Europe?"

(Mr. Arima) "In case of Japan, teachers  teach partially such as stamina and pistils in the subject of health and physical education. Getting only that part stood out. 

I may be contradictory, but whether students can understand sex issue if teachers talk about sexual relationship explicitly, that's different story. Ain't they vague, sex and love? It's sensitive topic too. But eventually if we think about human the issue of sex and love come up definitely. Mr. Arima said that it's difficult to figure out when we should give the lesson or from how old.

"I wonder if it's the best way to show everything including the sexual organs with doll model and even elementary students are able to see it, like one school do. We can't sum up it equally in data, "If I had received sex education I didn't do such a thing" or "I failed because I wasn't taught sex education properly." etc. 

After all, I think there are negative sides which is generated by doing sex education too deeply and by doing too lightly. Me too, it's the theme I've been thinking and no absolute solution.”

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