No one is saying that we should just shove kids out the door and say "they're gonna do it, nothing we can do about it." No, we make sure they know that sex is a natural, normal, and incredible thing---and that if done improperly and not respected, can have dire, life changing consequences. But all abstinence does is make it forbidden fruit, and since we can't introduce any sexual stimuli into their lives, talking about it like it's something normal is out of the question.
The point is that we can prepare our kids for the real world, where they have adult relationships and approach sex for what it is, an expression of passion between individuals. Like I said before, I have never been married, had my fair share of sexual relationships, and have never gotten anyone pregnant. I know that I don't want any babies right now in my life, and so I act accordingly. That can be taught. But not by elevating sex to this pedestal where shame and fear and anxiety are the result of giving in to natural feelings, especially considering the ridiculous hormone cocktail that adolescents are accosted with.
The point is that we can prepare our kids for the real world, where they have adult relationships and approach sex for what it is, an expression of passion between individuals. Like I said before, I have never been married, had my fair share of sexual relationships, and have never gotten anyone pregnant. I know that I don't want any babies right now in my life, and so I act accordingly. That can be taught. But not by elevating sex to this pedestal where shame and fear and anxiety are the result of giving in to natural feelings, especially considering the ridiculous hormone cocktail that adolescents are accosted with.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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