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Post by mike1921 on Feb 28, 2009 1:35:36 GMT -5
yea, I know pregnancies can be terminated, but since I don't control that and pregnancies could happen anytime you have sex with anyone, unlike HIV that only spread if someone involved has HIV, I fear that more.
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Post by Mari on Mar 28, 2009 22:41:42 GMT -5
I was reading in an artical that they are now going to teach preteens about condoms and birth control rather than not having sex. I don't think teaching kids not to have sex is even worth it, lets just face it, people are going to have sex, it's in our society, it's a norm, so it's going to happen, and it's going to happen younger and younger, so why not teach about safetly, instead of abstinence.
Personally I see nothing wrong with sex or abstienence, either way, the opinion on the matter should be open minded rather than frowned upon.
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Post by chaobender482 on Mar 29, 2009 7:22:49 GMT -5
And this makes me wonder that 30 and older strictened even more, thus would mention some people would push for an increase in age for viewing porn, and of course why Steve Wilkos and Jhon Walsh would find anyone under 21 to be not ready for sex, but also in the event that Child Porn also would lead to under age sex, because in a world that we are in chaos, these things will happen.
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Post by goten0040 on Mar 29, 2009 10:27:19 GMT -5
Personally I see nothing wrong with sex or abstienence, either way, the opinion on the matter should be open minded rather than frowned upon. You have a point. Most parent-child relationships that are more open on the matter of sex tend to produce children that are more mature on the matter of sex, and they'll tend to make decisions that aren't based solely on teenage hormones.
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Post by Mari on Apr 6, 2009 20:31:01 GMT -5
And this makes me wonder that 30 and older strictened even more, thus would mention some people would push for an increase in age for viewing porn, and of course why Steve Wilkos and Jhon Walsh would find anyone under 21 to be not ready for sex, but also in the event that Child Porn also would lead to under age sex, because in a world that we are in chaos, these things will happen. Can you honestly stop all that. That's like destroying all weapons of mass destruction, but you know someone somewhere will sneak and remake them anyways. Yes it would cut down on child porn, but I feel that with the sicko's out there, that seems a bit unlikely to stop unfortunately.
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Post by goten0040 on Apr 8, 2009 22:24:49 GMT -5
No, we all need to understand that it's not going to go away completely, no matter what we do. And unfortunately, with the internet, pornography is pretty much a click away - no matter how old you are. Restrictions aren't really even useful in that case by this point.
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Post by Mari on Apr 10, 2009 22:00:04 GMT -5
^ Very true.
Thank you for agreeing with me, but please add more to your post.
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Post by Aanglover on May 13, 2009 5:33:28 GMT -5
my thoughts on preteen pregnancy.....if you absolutely can't keep ur pants on..at least use a condom w/ spermicide or go on the pill...honestly...the U.S's overall average of when people start having sex is 12 YEARS OLD!!! that is outrageous!! preteen pregnancy isn't going to be completely extinguished....people have needs (not always sexual)...but we're all human....one little mistake though can cost you your life so make sure you're extra safe so you don't become pregnant/get someone pregnant!
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Post by ZukosGirl on May 13, 2009 18:46:13 GMT -5
^Preteens on the pill? While the pill does work I think that education on the risks of having unprotected sex would work better. A girl's body at the age of 12 is already changing so much that adding more hormones would really screw things up. I just wrote a paper about this very subject and I think that schools need to be implementing the Baby Think It Over program more. It's expensive but you learn a lot. Abstinence-only isn't as effective as it could be. And it isn't just the educational tools that are the problem. The teachers that are assigned to teach sex-ed often aren't comfortable with the material and as a result don't do as well as someone that would be comfortable with it.
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Post by Gran Gran on May 14, 2009 6:41:10 GMT -5
^Preteens on the pill? While the pill does work I think that education on the risks of having unprotected sex would work better. A girl's body at the age of 12 is already changing so much that adding more hormones would really screw things up. I just wrote a paper about this very subject and I think that schools need to be implementing the Baby Think It Over program more. It's expensive but you learn a lot. Abstinence-only isn't as effective as it could be. And it isn't just the educational tools that are the problem. The teachers that are assigned to teach sex-ed often aren't comfortable with the material and as a result don't do as well as someone that would be comfortable with it. You have a point, but a pregnancy is messing even more with the body! No win situation. The bigger problem lies within society. ZOMG the 'S' word! When you got the general consent that everything below the waist line is sin, and evil, you don't talk about it you give the act a status of importance near the illegal and making it that more interesting. I myself having grown up in Europe, nearly 3 decades ago, at the age of twelf sex didn't cross my mind, but I did have a pretty good idea how it worked and what to do to not get pregnant. Over here too much of the sex ed consists of 'don't do it' which is not going to work.
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Post by ZukosGirl on May 14, 2009 14:40:56 GMT -5
It's interesting that you point out the European idea of sex-education...something I would like to learn more about. I can't remember the exact statistics but its something like the United States has 4 times more teen pregnancies than Europe and like 10 times the amount as Japan. Obviously what other countries are doing is working; it's kind of sad that we aren't adopting some of their practices.
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Post by chaobender482 on Aug 13, 2009 8:26:07 GMT -5
It's interesting that you point out the European idea of sex-education...something I would like to learn more about. I can't remember the exact statistics but its something like the United States has 4 times more teen pregnancies than Europe and like 10 times the amount as Japan. Obviously what other countries are doing is working; it's kind of sad that we aren't adopting some of their practices. All relies on one thing, Age of Concent, unfortunately in the US and Canada, they are forcing more people to look for much older people for both Parenting wise and Health wise, apparently between the ages of 30 to 55 seem to be the pin point of where they want to see sex happen, let alone it would already be the right time due to the fact that they would finish up collage, and for the most part, able to work and maintain a budget to live in a place of your own, which takes 3 to 6 year to accomplish, on reason they want a higher age group to to start a family, And that is what the CDC wants to focus on, but in other countries, that is a different story 3 countries have no law of when to have sex(but must be married), and some have it at 9 years old, and sometime 12(such as 3/4ths of Mexico), but the US sees that as a increased risk of HIV, AIDS, and Herpes unfortunately, and that is why the US is going to continue to force other states to increase it's age until it is to the point that we start only allowing as low as 19 or 20 year olds having sex, pretty much taking away more freedoms then we see now.
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Post by Dutchy on Nov 2, 2009 13:12:02 GMT -5
You always end up having sick cases like last week in the paper there was this article on a 11 year old girl from england, and she got pregnant from her 87 year old neighbour
shocking and sick in several ways..
personaly i think preteen children should not be having sexual intercourse and some of them should learn at school that it can have a very big effect on your life to have sex.
I'm from europe and before we go to highschool in our last year we get sex-education. (that's at the age of 11/12) Most kids that age nowadays already know what sex is and how to do but i don't think enough children realize that you can actually get STD's or pregnant
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Post by mike1921 on Nov 3, 2009 16:46:00 GMT -5
You always end up having sick cases like last week in the paper there was this article on a 11 year old girl from england, and she got pregnant from her 87 year old neighbour shocking and sick in several ways.. I guess I'm jaded then, this doesn't shock me at all Everyone knows that, they just ignore it. I assure you, most kids do know that you actually can get STDs and pregnancies via sex. Just like they know that they could die from doing drugs. Kids are irrational .
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Post by Dutchy on Nov 3, 2009 18:12:56 GMT -5
Lol always up for a good discussion like the old days aren't you mike Anyway, at our school we had people with HIV and AIDS talking about their diseases and how people would react (they were from africa) if they knew they had AIDS, treated like trash and stuff that leaves a way bigger impression than a teacher telling you just how bad things are just because the books say so
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