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Should we move away from abstinence only sex education?

Should we move away from abstinence only sex education?


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Simple question, yes or no, and explain your answer.

Personally I think we should, it doesn't provide our kids with a proper sex education, and doesn't prepare them for the real world. I also think that sex education should include information on LGBT issues, and I think that our schools should offer condoms to our students with no questions asked.

Maybe we should teach our children to be gay by letting them experience gay sex in school.
 
Abstinence only sex ed doesn't work and shouldn't be allowed to be taught in schools.
 
Abstinence only sex ed doesn't work and shouldn't be allowed to be taught in schools.

It works for those who practice it.

Do you think abstinence should be part of sex education at all?
 
“Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol is working like a charm!”

For someone who lives in one of the most diverse and non-parochial cities as you do, backwater burgs are evidently completely incomprehensible to you.

Easy to laff at what you msunderstand in totality, eh?

You don't know squat about abstinence only sex ed. because NYC doesn't have it...so why ask at all if you don't actually want to know?

A fool and his intentional ignorance is soon revealed.

Regards from Rosie
 
For someone who lives in one of the most diverse and non-parochial cities as you do, backwater burgs are evidently completely incomprehensible to you.

Easy to laff at what you msunderstand in totality, eh?

You don't know squat about abstinence only sex ed. because NYC doesn't have it...so why ask at all if you don't actually want to know?

A fool and his intentional ignorance is soon revealed.

Regards from Rosie

Moderator's Warning:
And you can knock off the personal attacks.
 
So if you hand out rubbers, people will stop having sex?

If you hand out rubbers, there will be the opportunity for young people to have safer sex, thereby enabling the prevention of unwanted pregnancy and contracting STD's.

Abstinence education prevents adults from teaching youth about condoms and providing youth with condoms, so it enables the opportunity for unwanted pregnacies and STD's.

It's all about opportunity.

Regards from Rosie
 
Show proof abstinence only education stops those things?

Improper use of birth control causes those things, and abstinence only education doesn't teach students how to use birth control, or give them a proper education about sex. Keeping students in the dark isn't the way to go.

If sex education stops this when does that happen since we seem to be getting worse every year
 
Show proof abstinence only education stops those things?

Improper use of birth control causes those things, and abstinence only education doesn't teach students how to use birth control, or give them a proper education about sex. Keeping students in the dark isn't the way to go.
Not teaching abstinence at all will encourage more sex and it will get even worse
 
No, people will start having safer sex.

Not if they are cheap UN rubbers. They are not 100% and their will still be problems. So you want to promote teenage sex that will lead to an even more perverted society than we have now
 
Simple question, yes or no, and explain your answer.

Personally I think we should, it doesn't provide our kids with a proper sex education, and doesn't prepare them for the real world. I also think that sex education should include information on LGBT issues, and I think that our schools should offer condoms to our students with no questions asked.

I think we should leave it to parents.
This is a mommy/daddy area.
 
I don't think school should teach sex Ed at all. It's a parents job to teach their kids what's what.
 
Not if they are cheap UN rubbers. They are not 100% and their will still be problems. So you want to promote teenage sex that will lead to an even more perverted society than we have now

See this is your problem. You see sex as something nasty, and perverted. Which it is not. It's something everybody does, and is normal, and healthy human behavior and we need to give our youth the knowledge to protect themselves from the dangers that having sex can cause. I'm all for teaching abstinence, but we should also give them a comprehensive sex education as well so that they have all the knowledge possible so that won't get a STI, or have an unwanted pregnancy.
 
I would like it if the virtue of abstinence were discussed more, at the same time that some concession to reality be made. Even a myth of abstinence is a useful myth to have.
 
I don't think school should teach sex Ed at all. It's a parents job to teach their kids what's what.

I would agree, but political reality and public health statistics take away that nice ideal. It places the education system in a lose-lose situation, but it is still necessary.
 
See this is your problem. You see sex as something nasty, and perverted. Which it is not. It's something everybody does, and is normal, and healthy human behavior and we need to give our youth the knowledge to protect themselves from the dangers that having sex can cause. I'm all for teaching abstinence, but we should also give them a comprehensive sex education as well so that they have all the knowledge possible so that won't get a STI, or have an unwanted pregnancy.

It seems very strange to find someone who claims to be Very liberal using terms like:"normal, and healthy human behavior" when talking about sex because liberals have what many might say is a perverted view of what is: "normal, and healthy human behavior" when sex is the subject.

Most Liberals either don't know or choose to ignore Genesis 19. The Depravity of Sodom tha6 begins: "The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and bowed down with his face to the ground. 2He said, ‘Please, my lords, turn aside to your servant’s house and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you can rise early and go on your way.’ They said, ‘No; we will spend the night in the square.’ 3But he urged them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. 4But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house; 5and they called to Lot, ‘Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, so that we may know them."

And so I skip ahead to: Genesis 24 "Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulphur and fire from the Lord out of heaven; 25and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground."

I don't condemn anyone nor do I hate them I hate the sins of man not the sinner.

My intent is to show that Christians who believe in and follow the word will have a different view of what "is normal, and healthy human behavior."

As far as teaching our children I believe that even when someone trys to tell the truth about sex they fail to tell the truth about what it means and actually feels like by somehow trying to frighten them away rather than being honest but also include the proper knowledge to protect them from the pit falls and dangers of unprotected sex and the danger of sex with people we don't really know anything about.

The same is true when it comes to drug use. Children are lied to about the false dangers of pot and if they try it they are more likely to think Hell they lied to me about pot, did they lie to me about coke and heroin and that is what leads some to believe that pot is a gateway drug.

It's not the pot, it's the lies we tell that lead to addiction. Trust me I know this to be a solid fact.

I have never done any illegal drug past pot but I am imminently versed in what it is to be addicted to legal drugs legally obtained for real medical conditions.
 
No. We need more workers to help social security out. As abstinence only leads to higher pregnancies, that will help solve our entitlement problems. If you haven't caught on, this is sarcasm.
 
If sex education stops this when does that happen since we seem to be getting worse every year

You will get NOWHERE with abstinence only education while there is a whole industry dedicated to selling sex 24/7 via every media channel available
 
It works for those who practice it.

Abstinence works for those who practice it. That doesn't mean that abstinence-only sex ed works.

Do you think abstinence should be part of sex education at all?[/QUOTE]

Yes, I do. I think abstinence is the best choice for teens, but I'm also realistic about how many of them will make that choice, and I feel that they need to know how to protect themselves if they do choose to have sex.

It's like having car insurance. While it's best to not get into a wreck at all, you buy car insurance just in case.
 
So if you hand out rubbers, people will stop having sex?

No, of course not. I don't agree with schools handing out condoms anyway.

Teens are going to have sex. They always have, and they always will. Nothing anyone says or does will ever stop that.

Teaching teens how to properly use contraceptives, and realistic information about their side effects and failure rates will help those teens be more prepared to avoid the negative consequences of sex.
 
So if you hand out rubbers, people will stop having sex?

No, but since they are going to have sex anyway, its best to not ruin their life in the process. Its better they don't get a disease and they don't have a baby until they are ready for it.
 
I would like it if the virtue of abstinence were discussed more, at the same time that some concession to reality be made. Even a myth of abstinence is a useful myth to have.

This is pretty much my stance. I think abstinence is best, but I also know what being a teenager is like.
 
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