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October 7, 2005, 3:23 pm PDT
Well said
Quote From: hogsby Someone talked about condoms giving tacit permission to have sex. This person also made a connection with smoking and drug use. I don't have kids. But i remember being one. My parents taught me to respect sex as a thing for marriage or at least later in life. I did not have sex at school age. I have a problem with comparing sex with drugs or smoking for this reason: You DO NOT hope that one day your daughter will grow up, marry and have satisfying drug abuse. You do hope she will marry and have satisfying sex - unless you are really repressed. IT'S JUST SEX, people, not heroin. In 5 years she'l be reading about how to do it better!
Think about it. Suppose your daughter is responsible with condoms, has a little sex with her boyfriend, STAYS SAFE and then a few years later gets married, has her career, children, whatever. Are you going to look back and focus on - those few times she experimented as a youth? I hope not. But if she gets hooked on drugs - different story. AND, if she GETS AIDS - DIFFERENT STORY! I say, LET'S PROTECT OUR KIDS who WILL make up their own minds about sex anyway. Let them have condoms and teach them early. Sex is NATURAL AND SOMETHING THEY WILL SOON DO OFTEN AND LEGALLY. One day they may be on Dr. Phil talking about how they can't enjoy sex, but they will not be on there talking about how they can't enjoy smoking. We've got people hear defending public breast exposure for FEEDING, because it isnatural (ok, i buy that) but they refuse to picture their children being natural sexual beings. I believe in remaining virginal until marriage - but not all children will do that. I say to those who want to keep kids "ignorant" - DO YOU WANT MORE CHILDREN BORN OUT OF WEDLOCK AND MORE STDS? Kids will "outgrow" a little mutual and gentle experimentation with sex, in my opinion - but they don't outgrow pregnancy or disease so easily. Abstinence is BEST and my choice - and i agree there can be emotional problems with youth sex, of course. But kids also grow up and block adolescent stuff out, IF we don't make them feel to DIRTY. If kids WILL have sex, at least let's PROTECT THEM from long-term effects. Thank you.
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