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Old 03-28-2008, 03:07 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Abstinence just does not work for most teens. I doubt that any of us forget the urges and feelings we felt as teenagers when it came to sex, and how many of us truly remained abstinent? Safe sex, thankfully, seems to be an active hallmark of teen sexuality today - but those who believe they are in a relationship of fidelity often fall prey to the attraction of "raw" sexuality and pregnancies are no doubt the result.
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those who believe they are in a relationship of fidelity often fall prey to the attraction of "raw" sexuality and pregnancies are no doubt the result.

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Grace ;

You think teen age sex is a good thing??? Now im getting a better understanding of where you are coming from, and its worse than I thought.

please don't put words in my mouth. i said sex is a good thing. why paint it as something bad?

sex education is only going to do anything if it is a balance between pragmatic and ideological. society has tried the abstinence only approach, pushing the line that sex is dirty, evil, sinful, shameful, whatever, and it failed.
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Grace ;

You think teen age sex is a good thing??? Now im getting a better understanding of where you are coming from, and its worse than I thought.

please don't put words in my mouth. i said sex is a good thing. why paint it as something bad?

sex education is only going to do anything if it is a balance between pragmatic and ideological. society has tried the abstinence only approach, pushing the line that sex is dirty, evil, sinful, shameful, whatever, and it failed.
Safe sex among consenting intelligent teens can be a good thing. It was good for me. Real good. I wish I could do it all all over again!
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Out of curiousity, I would like to ask how many people here did not have sex while they were a teenager? I did, I was 17, which I think is considered a late bloomer anymore. But really, you too Grace, how old were all of you when you became sexually active? And then please state what you were taught about sex, was it abstinence only or a more realistice approach.
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Out of curiousity, I would like to ask how many people here did not have sex while they were a teenager? I did, I was 17, which I think is considered a late bloomer anymore. But really, you too Grace, how old were all of you when you became sexually active? And then please state what you were taught about sex, was it abstinence only or a more realistice approach.
19.

We had no sex ed at school. (I graduated in 1974.) And we had no sex ed at home either except as it concerned the farm animals. The only thing we learned at home about humans and sex was "Don't!" I guess that would be abstinence only. To this day, I have never had a frank discussion about sex with my mother. And my father would have fainted if I had even broached the subject.

Fortunately I was (and am) a voracious reader. When I want to know about a subject I look it up. My sex ed began at home with The Encyclopedia Britannica and continued at the library through books, and magazines until I grew weary of the subject.
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Out of curiousity, I would like to ask how many people here did not have sex while they were a teenager? I did, I was 17, which I think is considered a late bloomer anymore. But really, you too Grace, how old were all of you when you became sexually active? And then please state what you were taught about sex, was it abstinence only or a more realistice approach.
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Sex ed at school consisted of nothing. Sex ed at home consisted of "You get pregnant, you get kicked out!".

The closest my mom ever came to sex ed, was when I was 19 and living on my own. She told me casually one day, "I just read that birth control pills are only 98 to 99 percent effective. So if you know anyone depending on them, you might want to let them know.".
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14, a one off fling

then nothing more (damn!) until 18

we had sex ed at school, which was limited to the biology of reproduction. also did lots of reading (of educational material, not the other kind of sexual material) so i pretty much knew the biology and more before it was brought up at school anyway.

at home sex was very rarely talked about. i think my parents were a bit scared of the topic.

abstinence was offered as one option among many by the school educators and the literature i read, and i think everywhere else too (news, tv, etc) but i cannot recall any information that suggested abstinence as the best or only option.

australia is a bit different though, we had an extensive HIV education program nationally that pushed condoms (and clean needles) and always assumed that people were going to have sex, so let them do it safely. when i was young, the focus of formal sex ed was reproductive biology and safe sex.
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