RE: Texas' Sexual Problem
May 6, 2015 at 9:15 am
(This post was last modified: May 6, 2015 at 9:16 am by Regina.)
I think with anything that "adults" do, you have to be real and discuss it with teenagers.
It's a rebellious age when you're a teenager, you're curious about trying stuff that adults do. So when they get this "You MUST not drink! You MUST not have sex!" message thrown in their faces, it only makes them more curious. They'll try these things without any kind of knowledge about it.
Compare the UK to the Netherlands. In the UK we have this stricter and more prudish attitude to sex, it's considered awkward to talk to our parents about it. In the Netherlands people do talk about it, it's not as taboo over there. Turns out the UK has the highest teen pregnancy and STD rates in Western Europe while the Netherlands is one of the lowest, and that's not a coincidence.
You can't stop teens from having sex in my opinion, they're curious and they're going to do it. But it's education that makes the difference, if they go into knowing how to protect themselves this is less likely to happen.
It's a rebellious age when you're a teenager, you're curious about trying stuff that adults do. So when they get this "You MUST not drink! You MUST not have sex!" message thrown in their faces, it only makes them more curious. They'll try these things without any kind of knowledge about it.
Compare the UK to the Netherlands. In the UK we have this stricter and more prudish attitude to sex, it's considered awkward to talk to our parents about it. In the Netherlands people do talk about it, it's not as taboo over there. Turns out the UK has the highest teen pregnancy and STD rates in Western Europe while the Netherlands is one of the lowest, and that's not a coincidence.
You can't stop teens from having sex in my opinion, they're curious and they're going to do it. But it's education that makes the difference, if they go into knowing how to protect themselves this is less likely to happen.
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