Washington Journal... Abstinence.. the "retroactive virginity"

[SoCalDem]

That is MY take on what most of the freeps who are calling in , are talking about.,.

One lady just called in supporting abstinence.. She's 29 and had a baby at 14.. :eyes:.. Too bad she did not learn that lesson earlier , eh??

[luaneryder]

1. Gawd, the lady caller is the perfect

example of how abstinence does NOT work. She calls for it now LOL. Hypocrites!! Hello freepers: virginity is a one time deal.

[Warpy]

2. Sounds like she was a slow, slow learner, and only learned

the hard way. I'm just wondering how long it took her to learn. My guess is that she didn't discover abstinence until she was in her mid 20s with a baby or two clinging to her and her looks were starting to show the stress.

It's sad but true that prospects for women start to dry up in the late 20s, only to turn into the Gobi desert on that 50th birthday.

Absinence is easy for somebody who is 28 and an unmarried mother. Abstinence is not easy for kids, as it seems it was impossible for her. The sooner the policy makers in this country realize eighteen is a far cry from thirty, the sooner we'll have appropriate sex education in this country and can begin to reduce unwanted pregnancy, abortion and the transmission of STDs.

Until we drop this asininie and unworkable idea of forcing teenagers and young adults into an abstinent lifestyle (which 2000 years of sex phobic Christianity never achieved), the sooner we can start focusing on real problems.

[SoCalDem]

3. Exactly.. People between 13 and 25 are interested in sex

nature intended it that way.. To deny it, is S T U P I D ... knowledge is the only answer..

[Dirty Hippie]

4. My daughter said

that virtually everyone in her high school was having sex by the time they became juniors or seniors.

[SoCalDem]

5. About 100 years ago, girls were married by age 15 or 16

In the "cosmic sense" of things, sex is not unusual for teens.. It's only been "recently" that an extended adolescence has been the fashion..

We try to keep our children "juvenile" for longer than most countries, even now..