No it’s real!
“Of course, if you view virginity as number one, and you’ve slept with someone, of course it’s going to be different and you can never go back - but that doesn’t mean there’s no tomorrow,” explains Ashley.
Oh Ashley, Ashley.
“Every day is a new decision and abstinence is not one you make once. You’re going to have to make this decision over and over again. So if you fail once, you get back up and you try again.”
Bit like stopping smoking, then.
US lawmakers are investigating whether to cut government funding for health education programmes that promote sexual abstinence until marriage.
The move follows a report earlier this year from America’s leading health agency, the Center for Disease Control, which revealed one in four teenage girls has a sexually transmitted disease.
Opponents of abstinence education say the approach ignores the fact that teenagers are sexually active and fails to give them accurate medical information or advice on safer sex.
Education is a good thing - especially when that education can lead to you staying alive and/or having children one day.
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5 responses so far ↓
alisonrhodes // April 26, 2008 at 10:18 am
Its ridiculous, teens are going to have sex if they want to have sex and that’s life.
The facts remain– an abstinent person isn’t going to get pregnant or contract an STD. So why all the money going into that when it is so much more important to educate those who ARE having sex?
I think I will be abstinent for the next few hours, according to her logic, it doesn’t matter if I shag tonight, as long as tomorrow I decide to vow again
ellaella // April 26, 2008 at 10:18 am
I remember an uproar in the 90’s when NYC public high schools, facing reality, decided to make available free condoms to students who requested them.
It made a lot more sense to me than the (flippant? I’m still not sure) advice we got from nuns: Hold an aspirin between your knees.
lunawolf // April 28, 2008 at 12:13 am
I had abstinence-only education. They told us that the AIDS virus is so small that it can squirm through latex! In that case, why buy condoms at all?
“So why all the money going into that when it is so much more important to educate those who ARE having sex?” Perfect!
steve // April 29, 2008 at 4:27 pm
But condoms don’t protect against HPV. Most women get this at some point in their lives, and it can cause cancer. Condoms don’t protect against herpes. I’m sure taking valtrex for the rest of your life is a lot of fun in between outbreaks…. I don’t think we are just going to excuse things because you think they will just happen anyways. Why not legalize drugs and underage drinking if kids are going to do them anyways? You don’t want to give kids a permission slip to do things, because they will. Believe me, once I found out that pot didn’t instantly kill you (that’s what I thought before I took a drugs class in high school) guess what I went out and did? I literally thought I would die after smoking, and after the class I no longer had any fear.
lunawolf // April 30, 2008 at 1:40 am
Yeah? It would have been great to have someone tell us that, Steve! Perhaps some sort of education course regarding STDs and sex would have helped. But no! I’m sure the abstinence did something for the good little girls that were already vowing themselves to marriage! Mark one for conservatives: keeping people who most likely won’t have sex from having sex!
And the rest of those sluts, I guess they can go fuck themselves, right?
Oh yeah! You smoked pot just because you found out it wouldn’t kill you? Good lord, you’re easy. I’m sure there were plenty of people that tried it because they wanted to. I’ll bet they don’t blame a drug education course on their drug use, having personal responsibility and all.
And here’s another thought. Why not legalize marijuana and tax it? You don’t have a black market if you don’t have an illegal product to push, right? Look at the Netherlands. They tax marijuana and prostitution. Their jails aren’t over crowded by people with petty possessions charges or people who just wanted to get laid!
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