Miranda's POV Diary

Miranda’s POV
Dear Diary: Today in health class, we talked about methods of safe sex. So, basically either no sex at all or use a condom, but still risk all the horrifying STIs like Chlamydia, Gonorrhea and Herpes to name a few that they plastered across the PowerPoint as a scare tactic. It’s funny. We only discussed methods of safe heterosexual sex aka male condoms. I guess they don’t deem safe homosexual sex as important. As a lesbian (I know, I haven’t come out yet but still), the public high school system has once again failed me, but that’s to be expected honestly. I guess I’ll have to do my own research. Not that I have anybody to have sex with or would if I did but I should probably still know, right? I’ll come back with my findings

I did it. I came out to my mom and dad. They weren’t exactly happy with me, but I was prepared for the worst so this was actually a relief. My parents are firm believers in what we might call the Charmed Circle. I heard about it in a documentary or something, but essentially it “rationalize[s] the well-being of the sexually privileged” or straight people (Rubin 13). It’s a value system that claims sexuality as “good” or “normal” only if it’s marital, monogamous, reproductive, noncommercial and (you guessed it) heterosexual. It’s a hierarchy. The Charmed Circle is at the top with the most value while sexuality that’s in the outer limits like sexuality that’s homosexual, unmarried, promiscuous or non-procreative is at the bottom (Rubin 13). My parent’s religious discourse draws a line between good and bad sex so clearly they’re all about the Charmed Circle. My mom said she’d pray for me. I don’t know if she thinks that’s going to change me, but if that’s her mechanism that she needs to cope then so be it. Her one request was that I didn’t mention or say anything about it in church. I feel weird about it, but at this point I’m just happy that someone knows and I haven’t been kicked out of the