Ok, so I was just doing some background research on a less than scintillating Comedy Network show “Secret Girlfriend” and this hidden gem of internet literature from in Yahoo Answers popped up in the 4th hit.

It’s pretty funny how the entire YA community has taken the bait hook, line and sinker. Whoever pulled this prank must be peeing their pants, and bed sheets away. Right-wing, Christian America continues to baffle me.

Bethany

I’m concerned that my son has a secret girlfriend?

My 17 year old son has been very secretive with me lately, recently he has started to refuse to go to church with the family and tonight when I was going through his room I found a magazine with naked men in it. He obviously has a girlfriend that he is hiding from me that brought that magazine into my home and I am afraid they are having intercourse and I am greatly concerned that he is going to get her pregnant.

What should I do about this?

Additional Details

He is not a homosexual, we have taught him from the bible and he has learned though our church that this is not in God’s plan. I will not teach him about condoms, that is unacceptable, we have always taught him about abstinence and that is what God and his future wife expects from him.I want to speak to our pastor about this but I am very afraid of what he would think we are teaching our son if he things we are allowing him to sneak a girl into his bedroom. That is clearly inappropriate and we are good parents, I am very afraid what he will think of us.

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If your SON had a magazine of naken MEN I am doubting that he has a secret GIRLFRIEND. I’m thinking that your son it probably questioning his sexuality, or has already determined that he is gay.

The best thing to do is be open, honest and truthful. Tell him you were spying on him, and going through his belongings when you came across his hidden magazine. Ask, don’t acuse, and if he doesn’t want to talk to you about it, respect his wishes. Yelling or preaching to him about how “wrong” homosexuality is is not going to get him to open up to you.

You were wrong for snooping through your 17 year old son’s belongings. Did you think you would find his secret girlfriend under his mattress?

EDIT: Let me see if I understand. You will not allow your son to be gay because the bible says it’s wrong. You will not talk to your son about condoms because you feel it’s wrong? So, your son is supposed to what… sit in his room alone and miserable because he might be feeling or doing something his mother would not condone? I think that being a good mother means listening to your son and accepting him for what he is. Whether he is gay or not is not something you have control over. Neither is his going out and having sex (or safe sex) if that is what he wants to do. Are you going to chain him to his bed so he can’t leave? Drop him off at school and pick him up so you know he isn’t doing something on the way there or home that YOU disapprove of? Give the kid some breathing room and hope you raised him right. I’m assuming that he will be graduating in May… are you going to forbid him from going to college because he WILL encounter homo-sexuals, bi-sexuals and heterosexuals engaging in safe sex. There will be sex, drugs, drinking, partying, swearing. Loosen the reins a little bit and believe that you reared him well. You’re going on about being a “good mother” then believe that you did the best you could. No matter how much you preach your beliefs, opinions and morals he is his own person… not a clone of you. Trust that he is doing the right thing for himself, as you should have taught him to do… and not to listen to what others say about him.

Deny it all you want, Bethany, but he definitely sounds gay to me. And since you have been telling him it is “not in God’s plan” I think that explains why he won’t go to church. Why go to a church that will not accept him as he sees himself?
- 10 months ago
by kitkat

Im guessing the magazine belongs to your son and not some mythical girlfriend. Id sit down and have a chat with him about it.
by Swimmy’s…
You found a magazine with naked MEN in it and you think he has a girlfriend???? What are you…..high? If your son is in any kind of relationship it is probably with a man not a woman. Stop being in denial. If your son is gay than you should accept it and move on.
- 10 months ago
by OoG3oO

try to be a bit more open minded and get books on raising a gay son because sure as hell you’re going to need them.
by stephen1…

You really need to pull your pretty little hollow head out your ***. Your son is more than likely gay. You better get used to finding the condoms you refuse to teach him about, but has more than likely learned about in school, and lube next.
by I’m a Liberal
Err… Your son could be gay… and if he has a secret girl friend, he is turning 18 soon, you could force him to go to church with you, but this would end badly most likely.
- 10 months ago
by existent…
If he has a magazine of naked MEN, he is more than likely experimenting around with males, not females.
You should be accepting of him, and tell him that he can be open and honest with you, and tell him that you won’t judge if he has a secret girlfriend OR boyfriend.
If he does have a girlfriend and you’re worried that they’re having sex, buy him a pack of condoms and tell him about STDs, pregnancy, etc.
- 10 months ago
by Pretty Girl
What? I think you mistyped or you’re confused. If there was a men’s magazine in his room…with naked men in it, then he’s homosexual. Sounds like he has a secret “boyfriend”. BTW the only guys that have secret girlfriends are they one’s who have more than one girlfriend.
- 10 months ago
by ★ᴋoᴙtᴎiε

I doubt he even has a girlfriend, but…..this should be done anyway.Give him condoms and tell him about safe sex and STD’s.

Also, he can follow whatever religion he chooses. If he doesn’t want to go to church, you cannot force him.
by Fernando C

SUPER GAY TO THE RESCUE…. let me take him under my wing, in under a week, no more hiding… and trust, there will be no secret girlfriends to worry about, only “young, professional, goal oriented” guys that he “hangs out” with… no one will be pregnant, also, the bible is just a book… not to knock a religion, but it is what it is…Sorry if… there are more naked magazines, he STILL doesn’t wanna go to church, if he uses condoms (which I’m actually not sorry about) SAFE SEX RULEZ!
by afan

From one homosexual to the mother of another: Your son is gay.