On Abstinence And Teens Having Sex
Everyone seems to have an opinion about abortion and child support and who has control over what and when and where and what our children should or shouldn’t be taught about what goes on down “there”. Some folks think we shouldn’t teach sex education at all because that’ll give kids ideas and other folks think if we don’t teach sex education, that’s what leads to curiousity down “there” and silly misinformation like “you can’t get pregnant the first time” or “if you love me.”
Of course, the President’s big program is abstinence, which is the religious-right’s big program. The thing is that they don’t want to teach any kind of back up if abstinence doesn’t work out.
Strangely, I feel like I’m one of the few people with the right to actually ask this question these days. I wonder how many of these people who are going around preaching abstinence and not wanting to teach other forms of birth control at all practiced what they preached when they were that age. I just find it a bit hard to believe that so many of these people practiced what they preach.
Tags: abstinence, sex
