Abstinence-Only Sex Education

[Piscivore]

In Norway we have Red Cross Youth volunteers going around campuses teaching kids about sex. As far as I understand, they make a bit of a show out of it.

Wow, and here in America we have to pay $39.95 a month to see that sort of thing as grainy videos on the internet. I am so moving to Norway.

 

[slingblade]

Of course I didn't remember a damn thing about not doing sex unless you have a condom. I just did it. A year later, she aborted.

Then you weren't involved: if she had an abortion 52 weeks after a one-night-stand with you, it certainly wasn't yours.

Unless, of course, she's an elephant and aborted halfway through the pregnancy. Which leads me to ask: was she at least a cute elephant?

 

[cwalner]

Then you weren't involved: if she had an abortion 52 weeks after a one-night-stand with you, it certainly wasn't yours.

Unless, of course, she's an elephant and aborted halfway through the pregnancy. Which leads me to ask: was she at least a cute elephant?

sling you missed my jab at that very point, I am so disappointed

 

[slingblade]

sling you missed my jab at that very point, I am so disappointed

Gee whiz, me too, now!

 

[Philip]

I don't understand why people think practicing abstinence is difficult. I've always found it depressingly easy to be abstinent.

 

[quixotecoyote]

I don't understand why people think practicing abstinence is difficult. I've always found it depressingly easy to be abstinent.

Yah. We should just convince all the teenagers to get married. That would stop the problems right there.

 

[Arthur Denton]

I don't understand why people think practicing abstinence is difficult. I've always found it depressingly easy to be abstinent.

"depressingly easy"

 

[Lonewulf]

I've found it easy to stay abstinent too! Without even trying!

God I'm so lonely

 

[Lanzy]

That is the whole reason for which I left her, two days later. And I'm not pro-life, I'm pro choice: My choice of helping her raise the kid and then taking it for myself if she didn't want it. But, in the end, all I have from those days is a serious scar in my heart, nothing else. Was I stabbed? Yes, yes.

Waitaminute, there was a real murder?

 

[Safe-Keeper]

Waitaminute, there was a real murder?

Seconded.

 

[GreNME]

Yah. We should just convince all the teenagers to get married. That would stop the problems right there.

Seems to be Palin's answer.

After all, going back to shotgun weddings is how we can promote family values, right?

 

[Lonewulf]

Seems to be Palin's answer.

After all, going back to shotgun weddings is how we can promote family values, right?

Shotgun? Yeah, sure, for wimps. Or people behind on the times.

Personally, I prefer the .50 BMG wedding. With the use of a laser sight, you can threaten from a mile away.

 

[GreNME]

Oh, the times, they are a-changin'.

 

[Philip]

Yah. We should just convince all the teenagers to get married. That would stop the problems right there.

I understand your reply even less than you understood my joke; didn't you notice the "depressingly" and in my post?

 

[rjh01]

Wanted: A good woman to be Philip's wife.
Conditions of employment: Get to teach Philip heaps of things, including his first sexual experience, otherwise you write your own contract.
Apply: By PM to Philip.

 

[Aitch]

Sex ed classes would have been a lot more enjoyable if my school had taken your analogy to its logical conclusion.

As my (single-sex) school's approach to sex education was one one-hour lesson by a (supposedly) celibate priest, I'm not sure that more than a couple of the boys in my class would agree with you.

 

[quixotecoyote]

I understand your reply even less than you understood my joke; didn't you notice the "depressingly" and in my post?

Never been married, have you kid?

 

[Philip]

Never been married, have you kid?

Sorry, I didn't get your joke until just now.

 

[Faolan]

i was taught sex ed in 5th grade. parents had to sign a permission slip in order to attend the class. the girls were in one classroom and the boys another. we were each taught roughly the same thing: anatomy of both sexes genetalia, periods, premature ejaculation, condoms, STDs. we were also taught don't have sex until you are older. in middle school health class we had a similar teaching again. this teacher was a little more indepth. at the beginning of class we glued two paper plates together then set them aside throughout the class. we were taught about anatomy, std's, teen pregnancy, safe sex, abstinence, the general stuff. then at the end of class the teacher asked all of us to pull the plates apart without tearing them. none of us succeeded. he ended the class with telling us that whether or not you get pregnant, catch an STD, or use protection, whoever you have sex with will always be with you, so wait and chose wisely who you sleep with. it wasn't until high school when i was taught, yet again, STDs, safe sex, abstinence, etc. but also that sex feel good, and it should be something enjoyed when you do have it. learning all these things didn't make me want to have sex any sooner than when i felt i was ready.

if people want to tech thier children abstinence only. then that's thier choice. in my opinion teaching abstinence only promotes the "don't touch that shiny red button" idea where if you say "don't do it," any curious, hormone raging teen will be more apt to "touch the shiny red button". in order to more adequately appease both ideals i think there should be 2 classes taught to children. one for the abstinence only parents and the other more like the classes i had, where you are taught that sex is good but dangerous and keep your damn head about you if you are going to do it because there are hefty consequences.

 

[Arthur Denton]

Waitaminute, there was a real murder?

Seconded.

Soul-murder, you may call it. Led me to believe, then let me to disbelieve, then to believe, then I knocked out at the skepticism door, eventually.