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Old 07-06-2007, 12:16 AM   #107 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Rabbit View Post
If the choices were exclusively abstinence or the pill, I think it would have to be the pill. You can't educate away a million years of instinct and you can't enforce abstinence except by locking them in a box and feeding them through a tube and end up with a severely repressed adult. When a young person's body says it's time, then it's time, and no amount of moralising will ever change that simple biological fact.
Touche. I would most definitely agree.
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