You know, I actually did read the article that was linked to. One thing that really interested me was the parts talking about abstinence being the safest thing for unmarried people. I will share a few thoughts on the subject.
First of all, that fact is actually less contested than you might think. Even Planned Parenthood says that abstinence is the single most effective method of preventing pregnancies and STDs, and because I know you won't believe me, the link is to their official site. The crucial difference between the Church and Planned Parenthood is that Planned Parenthood doesn't harbor any pipe dreams of making a world where abstinence before marriage is something that actually happens regularly. There is only one way that widespread abstinence before marriage will happen on a societal level and actually work. Before I tell you this, I will tell you a fun fact about one of the legends of Country music which will lead directly into the solution: Loretta Lynn married her husband when she was fourteen. I don't know what you thought when you read that, but I can guess that it wasn't pretty. Unfortunately, the fact is that when society was more likely to be abstinent before marriage, marriages tended to be performed shortly after at least one party had hit puberty. But then the Industrial Revolution hit and totally screwed up the family structure. In fact, I had an ethics teacher in High School who was a devout Catholic who all but admitted that the Industrial Revolution and the increased need for education made the societal expectation for premarital abstinence unfeasible. For the record, I have read that Saudi Arabia is one of the countries which has the lowest rates of premarital sex. It also has no minimum marriageable age, and girls as young as eight have married.
In short, if you don't want to see people in their early teens marrying, don't expect that they won't fuck before marriage.
First of all, that fact is actually less contested than you might think. Even Planned Parenthood says that abstinence is the single most effective method of preventing pregnancies and STDs, and because I know you won't believe me, the link is to their official site. The crucial difference between the Church and Planned Parenthood is that Planned Parenthood doesn't harbor any pipe dreams of making a world where abstinence before marriage is something that actually happens regularly. There is only one way that widespread abstinence before marriage will happen on a societal level and actually work. Before I tell you this, I will tell you a fun fact about one of the legends of Country music which will lead directly into the solution: Loretta Lynn married her husband when she was fourteen. I don't know what you thought when you read that, but I can guess that it wasn't pretty. Unfortunately, the fact is that when society was more likely to be abstinent before marriage, marriages tended to be performed shortly after at least one party had hit puberty. But then the Industrial Revolution hit and totally screwed up the family structure. In fact, I had an ethics teacher in High School who was a devout Catholic who all but admitted that the Industrial Revolution and the increased need for education made the societal expectation for premarital abstinence unfeasible. For the record, I have read that Saudi Arabia is one of the countries which has the lowest rates of premarital sex. It also has no minimum marriageable age, and girls as young as eight have married.
In short, if you don't want to see people in their early teens marrying, don't expect that they won't fuck before marriage.
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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
