(April 29, 2014 at 11:41 pm)Lek Wrote: That's the attitude I'm referring to. It really strenthens my opinion that sex belongs only in marriage.And that's the attitude that leads to religious communities full of 19 year old divorced single mothers with a couple of kids. Because they want sex, but they've been shamed into believing that sex belongs to marriage. So they marry the first boy who comes along and end up pregnant because they don't know shit about how to have sex responsibly, and don't abort because they've also been shamed into believing that there's something wrong with that, too.
If we taught kids about condoms, taught boys to respect women enough to actually use the things, and taught girls to respect themselves enough to tell a bloke to go have a wank if he thinks "it feels better without a condom!" is more important than her health (STIs are especially dangerous for women), if we taught them how quick and easy it is to go and get emergency contraception if they do happen to fuck up and stupidly have unprotected sex (I'm sure we've all been there!), or failing that, where to go for the abortion pill if pregnancy occurs; if we teach them all those things instead of waiting time telling them not to have sex at all, there will be less unwanted children and less ruined lives.
Kids will have sex if they want to. You can't stop them. Do you think any other animal has sex because they were told about sex? Or is it an instinctive act like eating, or breathing, that we do without needing to be told anything? Humans are intelligent beings, so we are in a unique position of being able to understand this part of our nature and learn how to have sex without risking fucking up our lives. Abstinence promotion over sex ed deprives young people of this valuable knowledge, and ruins their lives before they're barely even adults.
