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• I guess that's one sure way to (Score:5, Insightful)

  by hfb (74)

  get a lot of teenage weddings. Of course, they likely aren't going to fund marriage counseling and daycare for all the babies...or even education for that matter. But, for the unthinking who want or need to be told what to do, it's certainly a winning strategy since not having sex is an effective method of contraception.

  Good thing they're not Catholic as the pope issued an encyclical a few years back telling widows [ mind not widowers ] that sex with another husband was amoral. It seems like religions go
  • Re:I guess that's one sure way to (Score:4, Insightful)

    by rafael (2125)

    But not only. Advocating chastity as the only contraception method leads as well to delegitimize delivering information about sex to teenagers. That's a sure way to spread unwanted pregnancies, abortions and sexual diseases. And of course all this craze about sex being bad is just going to give another boost to an already too powerful porn industry. Not mentioning prostitution. Even Paul was saying that chastity can't be enforced on everyone.

    In most civilizations that have a rule of no-sex-before-marriage,
    • Re:I guess that's one sure way to (Score:2)

      by pudge (1)

      Yes, people can go too far to extremes, but consider this gem from the article: "During the last few years Planned Parenthood itself has been forced to mention abstinence as a strategy for avoiding pregnancy and disease." Oh my gosh, you mean you can avoid pregnancy and STDs by avoiding SEX? What will they think of next? I can't even imagine what kind of warped logic it takes for anyone to find it remarkable that Planned Parenthood would mention abstinence.
      
      There is plenty of room for middle ground. It'
      • Re:I guess that's one sure way to (Score:2)

        by rafael (2125)

        The problem with abstinence-only education is that it leads children to avoid speaking and asking questions to their parents, who (in an ideal world) should be the primary and only teachers and authorities for that kind of private and intimate thing. (And you seem to agree with me on this point. Schools are just an expedient.) And usually abstinence-only education means no education about sex at all. (At least that's how it works in the Catholic families in southern Europe.) And without family or schools, t
        • Re:I guess that's one sure way to (Score:2)

          by pudge (1)

          The problem with abstinence-only education is that it leads children to avoid speaking and asking questions to their parents
          
          Not always, no. That is dependent on the parents.
          
          And usually abstinence-only education means no education about sex at all.
          
          The fault of the parents.
          
          And I think we agree on this, but the problem is that I see no logical line from "the parents are shirking their responsibility" to "therefore the government should do it." It's the wrong direction. When people are not required to
          • Re:I guess that's one sure way to (Score:1)

            by mary.poppins (3530) on 2003.09.18 9:33 (#24302) Homepage Journal

            > My child will be taught that the place of sex is between a man and
            > a woman who are committed to each other, for life, in the eyes of
            > God.
            
            What would happen if they were interested in humans of the same
            gender? It *does* happen, you know, even to the best of families! :P
            

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            • Re:I guess that's one sure way to (Score:2)

              by pudge (1)

              I don't understand the question.