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Should teenagers be given free condoms?

Should teenagers be given free condoms?

  • Of course! They need to have sex safely

    Votes: 47 50.5%

  • No, it only encourages them

    Votes: 23 24.7%

  • Other(Please elaborate)

    Votes: 23 24.7%
  • Total voters
    93
Aunt Spiker said:
Right - because we should encourage rather than discourage underaged, immature, and dependent individuals from having sex.

I see nothing wrong with stressing from an early age the importance of NOT risking pregnancy and disease just for the sake of ****ing.
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Having them available upon request is not encouraging them, it is providing a preventive measure if they should so choose to become active.

The first preventive measure comes from the home, the teaching of the parents. To deny that they would ever have sex is not viewing it realistically, no matter what is taught.

Using a phrase that some pro-gun people use, applicable here: Better to have it and not need it, then to need it and not have it.
 
Helix said:
yes.

and though this would be too controversial to ever be seriously considered, i've argued in the past that birth control should be opt-out instead of opt-in for teenagers. the number of unwanted pregnancies / abortions would drop precipitously.
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When I was in Belgium almost every girl is on birth control at 14, and only a very small number are not. They don't have high teen pregnancies, when they went to the U.S. on exchange they were surprised to see teen girls getting pregnant and not on birth control.
 
Aunt Spiker said:
Right - because we should encourage rather than discourage underaged, immature, and dependent individuals from having sex.

I see nothing wrong with stressing from an early age the importance of NOT risking pregnancy and disease just for the sake of ****ing.
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If they weren't planning on having sex or trying sex to begin with, having condoms available is not going to encourage this behavior. But it could make those who are thinking about it grab one "just in case". Not having one is not anymore likely to stop teens from having sex.
 
polgara said:
Good morning, CJ. :2wave:

:agree: Do you know offhand when this idiocy began? Most of the people I know still feel they are responsible for their offspring until they reach age 18, even when they get an argument from said offspring that "my friends' parents allow their kids to ...._______" fill in the blank here. :bs: :argue:
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Hi Lady P - are you back in Ohio now or still sweating it out down Texas way?

I don't know when things changed, but it's probably a function of the baby boomers being the me-now generation that expects everything to be at their fingertips no matter whether they or the country can afford it or not. I'll include myself here and say "we" never say no to our children so they naturally expect that whatever they want or need will be given to them. As a result, they are very open to any politician, like Obama, who tells them they can have everything and that someone else - the wealthy - will pay for it. They're going to be in for a rude awakening one day soon.
 
iacardsfan said:
Ok the point to be made here is that no matter what, sex is going to happen, underage or not. IF they are ashamed they might just not used them. Would you rather them do that? By the way, I agree that we need to go to that.
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I find that kind of thinking rather silly and defeatist. It's like saying "well, teenagers are going to join gangs, do drugs and shoot each other anyway, therefore..." It's absurd. I'd rather teenagers be raised properly in the first place to be responsible and understand the consequences of their decisions, something that's lacking in this country at the moment.
 
GottaGo said:
I'd rather give them condoms, then to have them be raising babies before high school graduation.
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That, pretty much.


Once upon a time I was against the idea. Fact is though, if they're gonna do it (some will and some won't), condom availability will rarely be the deciding issue, and better safe than sorry.

Of course, neither condoms nor any other birth control is 100%... but the odds are a lot better with than without.
 
If teenagers are going to be given free condoms because they are "just going to do it anyway", then I want free beer.
 
Samhain said:
If teenagers are going to be given free condoms because they are "just going to do it anyway", then I want free beer.
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What was that old beatnik refrain? "Free love, free beer, and no work!" :lamo
 
Can I get free rubbers too? Do you know how many thousands of dollars I've had to spend on safe sex? Day-um...

Pimpin' ain't easy.
 
Oh, I think they've gone beyond classic birth control.

When my daughters were in HS back around 2000, it was common knowledge (according to them) that anal sex was the new 'birth control'.

True story.
 
I can see by the poll tally...the world has digressed from 2013 back to 1013 thinking. Sex still mystifies people.

How about this: Sexual intercouse is outlawed except for reproduction.

Then put cameras in every room of everybody's home and camera implants in everybody's belly button. And since the NSA can process 1 billion phone calls a day, it won't have any problem keeping up with everybody's sexual encounters.

PS....oral sex is allowed. Wait, never mind, Michael Douglas might take exception to that since he got throat cancer from oral sex. So he might be elected as the oral sex advisor to the newly created Sex Patrol Agency.
 
No, it only encourages sexual behavior and passes on a message that such behavior is acceptable. Not only that, but someone's sexual irresponsibility is not my responsibility to pay for.
 
John Liberty said:
Should teenagers be given free condoms?
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Sure, why not. One crate of condoms compared to a life of lost dreams, an std (or two or three), or an unwanted bundle of welfare joy? No contest.
 
WCH said:
Oh, I think they've gone beyond classic birth control.

When my daughters were in HS back around 2000, it was common knowledge (according to them) that anal sex was the new 'birth control'.

True story.
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Apparently I went to high school in the wrong place and time. I could kick myself.
 
If you want to give them free condoms so that they'll be safe when having sex, can we give them a free gun so they'll be safe in other situations?
 
shlunka said:
Why should they be free? If you don't have the money to buy condoms, you don't have the money to raise a child.
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Let's see, the cost of a condom or the cost of a child on social services?


It never ceases to amaze me how such a simple concept is so very difficult for so many to grasp.

You may not want to pay, but the fact is you will if they get pregnant.
 
Josie said:
If you want to give them free condoms so that they'll be safe when having sex, can we give them a free gun so they'll be safe in other situations?
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digsbe said:
Not only that, but someone's sexual irresponsibility is not my responsibility to pay for.
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Unfortunately you and other taxpayers foot the bill for sexual irresponsibility quite frequently. If the distribution of contraceptives was shown to lower said burden, would that alter your viewpoint?
 
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Top Cat said:
Let's see, the cost of a condom or the cost of a child on social services?


It never ceases to amaze me how such a simple concept is so very difficult for so many to grasp.

You may not want to pay, but the fact is you will if they get pregnant.
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I love how liberals are using the downside of liberal programs to promote more liberal programs. It never ceases to amaze me that liberals don't find that logic flat out retarded.
 
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