@Facade I am all for teaching abstinence, I am just saying know how your body works and if you are going to have sex know how to protect yourself. There is some stat, which I couldn’t find right now that states that kids taught abstinence only have just as much sex as kids given information about sex and birth control, but that the abstinence only kids are more likely to get pregnant or sick. personally, I would rather my kid have safe sex.
It is a HEALTH issue…I have to go off on this tangent. My father worked for the surgeon general during the Reagan Bush years when aids hit the scene. C Everette Koop was a conservative man, responsible for the health of the nation. He wanted to put out service information about condoms and facts about HIV on TV, in schools, etc. The administration wouldn’t do it, didn’t want to talk about sex and saw it as a fag disease (I use fag because it is the tone they used, I don’t mean to offend anyone). It makes me sick when I think that our puritanical ideas actually endanger the health of people. We see this also with HPV, I have known for at least 20 years that you catch cervical cancer from your boyfriend, yet no one really talked about it, not until Merck could make money with the vaccine, we have to wait for corporate greed to let us know about things affecting our health or read it in Cosmo magazine, shouldn’t we know through school, our doctors, our government? Now it continues to surprise me that people still have not put together that HPV can lead to cancer of the tongue and anus. People die.
Lots of kids who are terrified of getting pregnant still engage in oral and anal sex. Personally, I think they are less likely to use condoms for those acts, but I am not a teenager I don’t know what they are thinking these day.