Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.
Really? How was that supposed to work?I was in high school just three years ago, and did. There was a rumor going around school the year I graduated that drinking a cup of mountain dew before you had sex would stop you from getting pregnant...
I think any time sex education for children in a public school setting is forbidden there is already a shortcoming in the entire sphere.The objections are not always the "religious" people. The problem is what the kids are taught. In a mixed class sex ed it taught and this objection is NOT just by so called religious people. There is still some issues that men need to teach young men and women to young women. This allows for those present in class to ask open questions that other wise will not be brought out. But it is easier to blame people with more strict moral values for the programs short comings.
Good to know there's a drop in both areas.And just to be clear, teen pregnancy (and, afaik, STD) rates have been dropping steadily since the early 90s. In '92 there were roughly 60 pregnancies per 1000 teens, there's now about 24. So for all the freaking out people do about teens having babies, things have been getting remarkably better (same goes with violent crime).
Do you or does anyone here know where a table can be found that would show those statistics?Of course, states with no required comprehensive sex education have higher teen pregnancy rates than those that do.
There's a visual.I think the craziest one I was ever told was that you can get pregnant from oral.
This article goes over some of the stats.Do you or does anyone here know where a table can be found that would show those statistics?
That's what birth control pills and abortions are for. I guess HIV pills are very easy to get now. I didn't say I didn't believe in condoms. I just know a few woman, that wont allow a men to wear them. Because they cant get the smell of the condoms out. Or some reason. Men need to be smarter and run from woman like this. But they don't seem to care.Same question pertains to the men who say the same thing. They don't like condoms. "Do you like STD's, the life countdown to the day you die of the AIDS virus you contracted sexing bareback, or becoming a parent way before you want to?"
Thank you for posting that.This article goes over some of the stats.
http://mic.com/articles/98886/the-s...rth-rates-have-one-thing-in-common#.vKCGIOOY0
Where to start, where to start????Students are not supposed to be given condoms in schools. Students are not going to school to learn how to have sex, schools were created to educate students, to prepare them for work. Students are not ready for sex. Contrary to popular belief not all students are having sex. The reason why more teens are becoming sexually active is because of the prevalence of sexual songs, pornography, and adult shows and movies. Pornography especially is one of the biggest problems in this world that needs to be stopped.
"No" to condoms in schools!
"Yes" to teenage pregnancy!
"Yes" to venereal disease!
Students are not supposed to be given condoms in schools. Students are not going to school to learn how to have sex, schools were created to educate students, to prepare them for work. Students are not ready for sex. Contrary to popular belief not all students are having sex. The reason why more teens are becoming sexually active is because of the prevalence of sexual songs, pornography, and adult shows and movies. Pornography especially is one of the biggest problems in this world that needs to be stopped.
Thwaites says no to condoms in schools
The sex life of the American teenager is apparently far less busy than it was in generations past.
Less than half of teens older than 14 said they’ve had intercourse, a sharp drop from rates in the '80s, a new CDC study found. The majority of those who do choose to become sexually active are using some form of protection.
Crotchety adults may joke: Maybe they’re too busy messing with their iPhones.
That’s actually a decent theory, said Dr. Brooke Bokor, an Adolescent Medicine Specialist at the Children's National Health System. More teenagers than ever have smartphones, including those with no traditional computers at home. Many are more comfortable searching in private for credible information about sexual health, she said. They could be better educated about the risks -- and more mentally prepared before that first heated moment ever comes.
“They’re looking on the web,” Bokor said. “They’re looking for guidance from parents, guardians and physicians. They can and will make positive decisions for their own health, both sexual and otherwise. We really need to be prepared to treat our youth and young adults as educated consumers.”
Another possible driver of the sexual slowdown is the growing popularity of the HPV vaccine, which is now widely offered to boys and girls as young as 11. The shots, of course, come with an educational conversation. Kids learn earlier about the prevalence of STIs and how they're spread.
(Contrary to some parents' worries, research shows the advent of Gardisil did not spark an upswing of sexual recklessness among tweens.)
"They learn from doctors that you can catch HPV even if you use a condom," Bokor said, emphasizing some common conditions spread through skin-to-skin contact. "They might think: How else can I stay healthy?"
The majority of kids these days use some form of contraception, the CDC data shows. The use of emergency contraception -- like the Plan B pill -- for teen girls grew from 8 percent in 2002 to 22 percent in 2013.
But teenagers still aren’t using the most effective forms of contraception: 97 percent of teen girls opt for condoms over birth control pills and the IUD.
Girls who reported using some form of protection during their first sexual encounter were half as likely to become teen moms than those who did not, the CDC reported.
That suggests birth control has played a key role in curbing teen parenthood. Births to girls 15 to 19 plunged from 84 per 1,000 teens in 1991 t0 26 in 2013.
Well, it wasn't Pittsburgh per se, but an area about an hour south of Pittsburgh that is considerably more conservative.
When the gay-straight alliance was founded, a group of students tried to create an anti-gay club, so it wasn't the most progressive of places, heh.
Well shoot, guess it sure is a good thing that if we don't give them condoms, there's no way they'll ever have that sex they aren't ready for!Students are not ready for sex.
So people are hitting puberty sooner and getting married later. That leaves quite a large gap in years where a person wants sex, but cannot get it in a socially acceptable (or even legal, in some cases) way.
Using a condom doesn't fix either issue, though it can help reduce the consequences of the problem. It's good and vigilant parenting that is required to really stop teens from having sex.
It's good and vigilant parenting that is required to really stop teens from having sex.
Absolutely not. I work in maternity and women's sexual health. Girls (even grown women) come in all the time thinking they can't be pregnant because the guy pulled out, or because their app told them they weren't ovulating at that time, or because they douched afterwards. It's not so much that they don't think it's physically possible; it's that they think the odds are so low that it couldn't possibly happen to them.Um no most HS girls are totally aware that they can get pregnant from having sex, even just the 1st time, even during your period. If they don't know that then there were some serious gaps in their education.
Premarital sex may not be promoted on CF.Well shoot, guess it sure is a good thing that if we don't give them condoms, there's no way they'll ever have that sex they aren't ready for!
In Germany, we've found a way around that: we consider it socially acceptable for young adults to bone. This solution has two major consequences:
1. It removes the stigma surrounding sex and sex ed, and ensures that people can have sex when they are ready with all the necessary tools
2. It makes teenagers a lot less obsessed with sex, because it lacks the extreme taboo it has in your culture, and is a lot less insane or risky to do.
Or, or, or you could avoid having to bind a shock collar around your children, trust their judgment for once, and accept that sex is a thing that happens and there's nothing inherently wrong with it if done safely, sanely, and consensually. This squeamishness towards sex, this treatment of something so fundamentally natural and human as though it was a huge taboo that we cannot encourage (or even prepare people for, despite knowing full well that it's going to happen and that not preparing them makes everything way worse), is a large part of the reason that sex and sexuality are so messed up in the USA.
Or, barring that, if you really insist, may I recommend a chastity belt? Absolutely no chance of premarital sex, and as an added bonus, masturbation is pretty difficult as well. It's pretty much the only thing that has a snowflake's chance of working, anyways.
Premarital sex may not be promoted on CF.
Without effective sex ed classes, many women won't know that genital HPV can lead to cervical cancer.
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?