scott wrote:
I know that you say that "abstinence only" education is not logical, but contraceptives and condemns do very little to protect against STDs and unless contraceptives are used 100% correctly 100% of the time are not overly effective in preventing pregnancy. Even when used 100% correctly, 100% of the time contraceptives are far from preventing pregnancy.
Sadly enough any other type of education other than "abstinence only" education only pretends to mask the problem, not prevent the problem. Then we spend the next bunch of years reacting to Jr. high and high school teens who already have an STD as opposed to preventing them.
That is a sad scenario!!
Actually condoms ARE very effective at preventing the spread of STDs. So much so that for many decades that was their primary stated purpose. Their effectiveness at preventing pregnancy was secondary.
Stating that since condoms are not 100% effective 100% of the time that the only alternative is a bunch of "DON'T DO IT!" training is a false dilemma.
I've always found it extremely interesting how all of the histrionics and fussing about teen sex is never extended to sex between adults, despite the fact that the dangers and consequences are identical.
An unwed pregnant 20 year old with herpes is just as screwed as a 16 year old in the same boat. But few people hiss and holler about the 20 year old, while lots of people have a conniption over the 16 year old.
I think the reason for this difference is simple: a lot of people are simply neurotic when it comes to sex. They think of it is wrong, as corrupting, as dirty, as evil, or as all of the above. But while they feel constrained against dramatizing their insanity against other adults, they have no compunctions against using the young as a vessel for their issues.
The result is a nation of young people who are made ignorant and lied to as a result of their elders' psychiatric disorder.
And this crap just goes on and on and on. The same exact nonsense I see today was what I saw when I was a kid myself back in the 80's.
The truth is that sex is not wrong, it is not dirty, or sick or corrupt or anything negative. Sex is ordinary, it is commonplace, it is mundane. But like many things in life, it is something that must be handled responsibly.
Lying to young people and saying "Don't do it!" out of some twisted sense of morality isn't doing them any favors. You need to treat sex as the ordinary subject that it is. If you want to protect someone, give them the knowledge and information they need to make good decisions and handle themselves responsibly. Stop pretending that sex is a bad thing that children and teenagers shouldn't know about, a danger to their well-being to understand. Stop setting them up for failure.
Judge it!
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