Comments on: Comprehensive Sex Education http://blog-aauw.org/2009/04/23/comprehensive-sex-education/ Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:00:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: pamela nakanelua http://blog-aauw.org/2009/04/23/comprehensive-sex-education/#comment-2901 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:54:18 +0000 http://blog-aauw.org/?p=2442#comment-2901 Great comment about women age 25, 25 or 45 having sex. We have to realize that post-marital sex is a huge reality. If we are just worried about teenage pregnancy, then post-marital is not as much of an issue, but for the women that get divorced and find themselves in the dating field again the challenge for safe-sex is a reality. It is not just pregnancy that we are worried about anymore, there are a myriad of STD’s that are passed through unsafe sex and coming down with an STD at age 35 can be devastating.

]]> By: A.Y. Siu http://blog-aauw.org/2009/04/23/comprehensive-sex-education/#comment-2892 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:59:23 +0000 http://blog-aauw.org/?p=2442#comment-2892 I don’t really like putting Valenti up against Garth. It presents a false dichotomy of sorts. The image of those two arguing about sex education makes it seem as if one cannot believe in comprehensive sex education and wait to have sex until married, which isn’t true at all.

In fact, everyone who does wait to have sex until marriage should support comprehensive sex education. After all, you cannot effectively coerce teenagers into waiting to have sex. If you want to wait, that’s fine. But others will not. By telling them “Abstinence is the only way,” do these abstinence-only “educators” really think the teens who were going to have sex would respond “Oh, my God. I didn’t realize abstinence is the only way. Now I guess I’m just going to not have sex”?

Maybe those folks can talk to Sarah Palin’s daughter. There’s no harm in saying, “If you have sex, use contraception and protect against STDs.” It doesn’t make the sexually inactive teens horny. The kids who were waiting to have sex until marriage don’t suddenly think “Oh, I was going to wait, but now that they’re showing me how to put a condom on a banana, I’m going to hump everything in sight now.”

This just makes me sad.

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