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  • Abstinence only education needs to be stopped
    SL commented on the article | about 3 years ago
    Abstinence only education needs to be stopped

    I can see how it might appear that way.  Let me see if I can clarify.  

    13 year old girls crave the attention suggestive clothing gets them – yes.  

    They think it is normal to dress that way – yes, most likely.  At least that anyone who says otherwise is shockingly behind the times.  

    They don’t realize the effect it has on males – I disagree.  They don’t totally understand, no, but they also aren’t ignorant.  They get attention, and it’s attention they want, and I have no doubt they know it has something to do with their sexuality.  I agree with Natasha that these things are cross-cultural constants.  

    You can’t tell teenagers not to dress a certain way.  But I think you can treat sex as a normal human function (which is it, even at their age) and destroy the allure of getting sexual attention from strangers.  They won’t stop being sexual, but they may cherish it a little more, and that may help them make smarter decisions.  It worked for me – of course, I am not everyone.  

    My point is that teaching that sex is bad bad bad bad bad puts tremendous strain on a culture, which is made of people, and people are sexual by nature.  That strain expresses itself in confused, misguided, and sometimes dangerous expression of sexuality by young people who don’t know better.

  • Abstinence only education needs to be stopped
    SL commented on the article | about 3 years ago
    Abstinence only education needs to be stopped

    My favorite sex ed joke:

    "To say that teaching teenagers about condom makes them want to have sex is like saying installing headlights on my car makes the sun go down."

    I support sex education.  Abstinence only (emphasis on "only") is not sex education.  It's sex obsfucation.

    I share the chagrin over the hyper-sexualization in our country, particularly of women, even more so of girls.  Good, responsible sex education is the only thing that can solve that, because it will only go away when the people don't want to see it anymore.  I personally believe that 13-year-old girls in suggestive clothing is a direct result of abstinence-only education.

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