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Post by mike1921 on Aug 30, 2008 15:07:41 GMT -5
My parents never gave me the talk but when you saw someone so close to your age, with this giant round belly and they just so horrified that people keep staring at them as they walk by. That was the scary sense of wake up call to me. You'd think it'd work right? No one gave me the talk ether, but I pretty much figured it out by my self, DON'T DO IT TILL YOU ARE AT LEAST 18!! It is that F**in simple. Agreed. I think we're all aware of the rep-boosting factor of breaking the rules. However, there are much easier ways to break rules or get popular. Hell, there are much easier sexual ways to get popular. Where I live you can get popular for slapping the back side of the hottest girl in school and her not getting mad. Keep your hand there for 10 seconds and you're the god of school.Chick flicks hurt my eyes!!!............ What do you mean by sex chats. and no I'm not going to watch Dr. Phil because I'd rather eat my own arm.Some people go into puberty early. Yes this is personal, but I was 11 when I first had those primal urges. wow.........This girl scares me.
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Post by stardragonsword on Aug 31, 2008 0:27:10 GMT -5
mike1921: yeah she scares me too...and she says we're "best friends"...haha..no... but unfortunately she was one of those kids that hit puberty early,she said she was about 11 when she started popping out and all of that fun stuff...its crazy how things work.
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Post by Horyo on Aug 31, 2008 1:04:52 GMT -5
@ Horyo: These primal urges are, to me, a bit far fetched. My peers and I, when we were 10, 11, 12, were more focused on things like Pokemon, cartoons, and forging our parents' signatures on notes the teacher wrote home so we wouldn't get into trouble. Our primal urges didn't kick in until after the first stages of puberty. And I can't speak for every single person of Generation Y, but from my experience--we got the sex talk in school and we were shown videos of how miserable and unhappy people with babies seemed. I still say that unreasonable standards of beauty and social pressures on women are the root of this issue. I'm not saying that it's the only factor, it's just one of the factors that push people to do stupid decisions. Girls and boys begin puberty around 11 or 12 right? That's pretty close in the preteens. Unless you mean 9-year-olds.
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Post by mike1921 on Aug 31, 2008 9:12:05 GMT -5
mike1921: yeah she scares me too...and she says we're "best friends"...haha..no... but unfortunately she was one of those kids that hit puberty early,she said she was about 11 when she started popping out and all of that fun stuff...its crazy how things work. Well, it's not that odd of an age, I've saw girls younger than her with.
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Post by CountessRachel on Sept 1, 2008 3:46:49 GMT -5
@ Horyo: These primal urges are, to me, a bit far fetched. My peers and I, when we were 10, 11, 12, were more focused on things like Pokemon, cartoons, and forging our parents' signatures on notes the teacher wrote home so we wouldn't get into trouble. Our primal urges didn't kick in until after the first stages of puberty. And I can't speak for every single person of Generation Y, but from my experience--we got the sex talk in school and we were shown videos of how miserable and unhappy people with babies seemed. I still say that unreasonable standards of beauty and social pressures on women are the root of this issue. I'm not saying that it's the only factor, it's just one of the factors that push people to do stupid decisions. Girls and boys begin puberty around 11 or 12 right? That's pretty close in the preteens. Unless you mean 9-year-olds. I was thinking of kids more along the lines of 13, 14, 15 years old actually.
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Post by stardragonsword on Sept 4, 2008 2:43:23 GMT -5
mike1921: yeah she scares me too...and she says we're "best friends"...haha..no... but unfortunately she was one of those kids that hit puberty early,she said she was about 11 when she started popping out and all of that fun stuff...its crazy how things work. Well, it's not that odd of an age, I've saw girls younger than her with. nah I'm not saying it's odd,I'm just saying it kind of sucks that it hit her early. I've known other girls who got it before that age too.
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Post by Female_Revan on Feb 16, 2009 21:26:07 GMT -5
I saw a girl on Dr. Phil today that was [glow=red,2,300]ten years old[/glow] and [glow=red,2,300]having sex chats[/glow] with guys online!!! [glow=red,2,300]Anyway, her parents took away her computer, etc... then THEY GAVE IT BACK.[/glow] That's the biggest mistake right there. Parents are giving these girls a lot of leeway, and it seriously messes with their heads. By.The.Force. That was SERIOUS proof of how shabla America is these days. Even though I'm a teen this stuff creeps me out. Anyway, I think that girls who "do it" at my age have something wrong with their minds. Also, I'm afraid of sex because I'm afraid of childbirth. Edit: Wait...the girl was an American, right?
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Post by Azuna the Screaming Gopher on Feb 24, 2009 19:01:57 GMT -5
^Good reasons. I have a purity ring, and today, i was reading a Seventeen in my school library, and they had an article on sex. i read it, and it it had a few testimonies to wearing purity rings. One girl proudly proclaimed that she wore it so she could honor God. Then another girl spoke out, saying, she took the pledge at 12. Then she found no use for the ring at 14. She took the ring off, and she had sex anyway. My mouth fell open to her response, and I thought, Wow, why would you take it off?! You already made the oath, you can't break it!!! I will never take mine off until marriage, and I plan to keep it that way.
What are your views on that?
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Post by concreteangel on Feb 24, 2009 21:49:58 GMT -5
I never took the oath specifically, but I do wear a ring on my left hand (it doesn't fit on the third finger so it goes on my middle finger instead) that my best friend gave me. It looks like an engagement ring and, to me, it is my purity ring.
I think they're a great idea. Because you can look down at your hand or feel the ring on your finger and think about what you're doing before you go too far.
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Post by mike1921 on Feb 24, 2009 21:53:06 GMT -5
I don't see what's wrong with having sex before marriage. By the way, when these pledges are less exploitative and have a valid reason to be respected I'll care about people breaking them. By exploitative, I mean they ask for kids to say they're not gonna have sex before they're married before they know a thing about it. I don't know how early they ask people to put these things on but if it's earlier than 15 it's too early as far as I'm concerned. You might as well make a 5 year old pledge never to get married.
Don't doctors have to get informed consent? If so why don't you wait till the kids know what those urges and the like are like before you make them pledge something like that. Unless you think churches should be less moral than the law requires doctors to be.
As to why she took it off, maybe she realized that there's no reason to make such a big decision based on religion and force yourself to keep to that decision later on in life.Maybe she decided sex is more important.
Also, I think those rings and other programs that teach abstinence only are the main reason we have preteen pregnancies and teen pregnancies. Instead of just teaching them to take pills and/or use a condom.
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Post by Female_Revan on Feb 26, 2009 18:50:21 GMT -5
In my health class the teachers said that condoms can break and slip off pretty easily, and that they don't provide 100% protection against STDs. They didn't mention anything about birth control pills though...
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Post by Female_Revan on Feb 26, 2009 18:58:24 GMT -5
^Good reasons. I have a purity ring, and today, i was reading a Seventeen in my school library, and they had an article on sex. i read it, and it it had a few testimonies to wearing purity rings. One girl proudly proclaimed that she wore it so she could honor God. Then another girl spoke out, saying, she took the pledge at 12. Then she found no use for the ring at 14. She took the ring off, and she had sex anyway. My mouth fell open to her response, and I thought, Wow, why would you take it off?! You already made the oath, you can't break it!!! I will never take mine off until marriage, and I plan to keep it that way. What are your views on that? The 14 year old probably didn't understand what the meaning of an abstinence pledge is. Just because you take off the ring doesn't mean you can go have sex with guys. The ring isn't the pledge, it's merely proof that you took the pledge. As a child of hardcore Catholic parents, I was taught that, take the pledge or not, you shouldn't have sex before marriage.
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Post by mike1921 on Feb 27, 2009 0:29:42 GMT -5
They should've mentioned them . I'm not really as afraid of stds spreading as pregnancy. Yea, they're not 100% guranteed to work, which is why I think anyone who's having sex and doesn't have a plan incase pregnancy happens and hasn't been tested probably isn't mature enough to be having sex in the first place. But, they seem to be 99% reliable , I highly doubt most pre-teen or teen pregnancies are caused by a broken condom. Especially considering from my experience most of my friends would probably have sex given the chance and wouldn't wear a condom if it saved their lives.
So while me saying abstinence is the reason we have pre-teen and teen pregnancies is out of line, I still think we'd be better off teaching about condoms and the pill, and think it'd drastically reduce the number. Eliminating pre-teen and teen pregnancies is an unreasonably high expectation. One that'll only be reached when there's foolproof protection (it's sad there isn't any really, we have medicine for every physical ailment I can think of and depression yet we can't find foolproof protection, no abstinence doesn't count).
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Post by goten0040 on Feb 27, 2009 10:42:21 GMT -5
@femaleryan: Yes, she was American, with all the attitude to go with it.
Anyway... on the purity ring business. I don't think a RING should decide whether or not you have sex or not, because, frankly, as stated before, it can be removed. Unless you deeply acknowledge the symbolism of that ring, you don't have the right to wear one. But it's pretty common. A lot of the time, it's the "JESUS IS MY SAVIOR AND I'M GOD'S CHILD MURRR" girls that end up being the (dare I say it) slutty ones. At least it is where I live. The sad part is, I've noticed that a lot of teenage girls who GO to church simply go because they feel that washes them of their sins so they can go sin some more. It's quite ridiculous. Then again, I'm in a little redneck town so... yeah, figures.
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Post by asian malaysian on Feb 27, 2009 22:50:06 GMT -5
I'm not really as afraid of stds spreading as pregnancy. Pregancies can be terminated. There's no take backsies for HIV. Im just sayin'.
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