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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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Abstinence should be encouraged for any sexual orientation until the couple is married or comitted to each other for life. It's not just pregnancy you have to worry about.

Okay it is a monogamous gay teen couple.:roll:

So should that be encouraged as well?
 
Okay it is a monogamous gay teen couple.:roll:

So should that be encouraged as well?

If you want to take it up the ass...hey, it's your ass. knock yourself out
 
And teenagers have a sex drive, you can't ignore it. And those teen pregnancies, and STI's are because of abstinence only sex education, which is still taught in alot of school districts. We need to turn to a more comprehensive sexual education, so that we can prepare our kids, to deal with their sexual desires, and how to best protect themselves when they choose to act on those desires.

It sounds like your way of teaching would be "if it feels good, do it." If they carry that over to adulthood, isn't that saying things like,
" I committed adultry because it felt good" "I used that girl because it felt good to me" "I slept with 20 guys by the time I was 20, because it felt good." What better time than teenage years to teach morals, restraint, and personal responsibility?
I really can't think of anyone, myself included, who would say, gee, I sure wish I would have had sex with more boys while I was in high school.
We should teach kids that it is normal to have sexual desires, but it's not necessary to act on them.
 
Great and the peanut gallery chimes in:roll:

sorry if I impinged on your gaygenda. homo/hetero, I don't think any teens should be "encouraged" to have sex. they are going to do that as often as possible anyway.

monogamous butt sex is the safest route to go. monogamous = lower chance of STD, butt-sex = no chance of unwanted pregnancy.
 
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It sounds like your way of teaching would be "if it feels good, do it." If they carry that over to adulthood, isn't that saying things like,
" I committed adultry because it felt good" "I used that girl because it felt good to me" "I slept with 20 guys by the time I was 20, because it felt good." What better time than teenage years to teach morals, restraint, and personal responsibility?
I really can't think of anyone, myself included, who would say, gee, I sure wish I would have had sex with more boys while I was in high school.
We should teach kids that it is normal to have sexual desires, but it's not necessary to act on them.

wow....you certainly read a lot into her post. erroneously, i might add.
 
What better time than teenage years to teach morals, restraint, and personal responsibility?

That's not a school's job though, that's a parent's job. Besides, whose morals should the school be teaching?

The school's only duty when it comes to sex ed should to present factual information about sex, including the risks involved and the options available to mitigate those risks. Period.
 
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

I was born and raised in a "backwater burg," so I don't think that's the issue. My point is that "we have lots of teen pregnancies" does not prove that "we have lots of teen pregnancies because we allow first cousin marriage." Correlation =/= causation.
 
It sounds like your way of teaching would be "if it feels good, do it." If they carry that over to adulthood, isn't that saying things like,
" I committed adultry because it felt good" "I used that girl because it felt good to me" "I slept with 20 guys by the time I was 20, because it felt good." What better time than teenage years to teach morals, restraint, and personal responsibility?
I really can't think of anyone, myself included, who would say, gee, I sure wish I would have had sex with more boys while I was in high school.
We should teach kids that it is normal to have sexual desires, but it's not necessary to act on them.

You completely misunderstood my post.
 
Okay it is a monogamous gay teen couple.:roll:

So should that be encouraged as well?

I wouldn't encourage teens to have sex at all. "Committed relationships" are ones that you count on lasting for a lifetime. Obviously teenagers' relationships rarely do.
 
I wouldn't encourage teens to have sex at all. "Committed relationships" are ones that you count on lasting for a lifetime. Obviously teenagers' relationships rarely do.

mine did........
 
mine did........

Good for you. I always love hearing high school sweetheart stories that lasted a lifetime. My parents got married when mom was 18 and dad was 22. I can't even imagine getting married that young.
 
Good for you. I always love hearing high school sweetheart stories that lasted a lifetime. My parents got married when mom was 18 and dad was 22. I can't even imagine getting married that young.

My wife and I got married at 20. We will be celebrating our 12th's anniversery in two weeks :)
 
That's not a school's job though, that's a parent's job. Besides, whose morals should the school be teaching?

The school's only duty when it comes to sex ed should to present factual information about sex, including the risks involved and the options available to mitigate those risks. Period.

I agree. Sorry if it didn't come across that way.
 
HI, I have been moving around. I relostaed and things have settled down so I figured i would post a few. How have you been?

wonderful......are you enjoying your new home? it's nice to see you around.
 
Good for you. I always love hearing high school sweetheart stories that lasted a lifetime. My parents got married when mom was 18 and dad was 22. I can't even imagine getting married that young.

Does it count as a high school sweetheart story if I stalked my future wife for 4 years during high school before she finally agreed to date me in college?
 
Does it count as a high school sweetheart story if I stalked my future wife for 4 years during high school before she finally agreed to date me in college?

Oooh...I want to hear that story! Did you ever ask her out in high school and she just kept saying no or were you too scared to ask...?
 
"Should we move away from abstinence only sex education?"

Well the fact remains that teach only "abstinence" isnt teaching at all, abstinence is actuallystupid and void of education.

Now by all means based on your own morals, religions, beliefs etc teach it has an OPTION or a PREFERENCE but if thats all you teach its very shallow and uneducated. Quite simply knowledge is power.

Sex ed is very important, now age and when depend on the person/parents but its very important
 
wonderful......are you enjoying your new home? it's nice to see you around.
yes i am. It's great and the kids enjoy it. My wife loves it here and is happy that we moved. We enjoyed the last home but this place is better. Our first adoted son now gets to see his actuall birth mother. That is really nice for them.
 
Good for you. I always love hearing high school sweetheart stories that lasted a lifetime. My parents got married when mom was 18 and dad was 22. I can't even imagine getting married that young.

My folks are doing fine as well. High school sweethearts. They just celebrated another anniversary a short time ago.
 
I think we need to hand out condoms in school and teach everything. Bristol Palin is a prime example of a failing sex education system. Just because you hand a kid a condom doesn't mean they'll use it. But if they're going to have sex, they'll have sex, and it's better with a condom than without.
 
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