Is "Wait Till You Graduate" an achievable goal?

[jmowreader]

The fundies love to promote the idea of virginity until marriage.

There are some problems with that notion, honorable and romantic though it may be...

* Some people never marry
* Some people marry late in life--I waited till I was 30
* One of the biggest causes of divorce is sexual incompatibility. The time to find out that your companion's idea of good sex would make Caligula blanch and your idea of it involves satin sheets, soft music and champagne is NOT after you're legally wed!

Introducing my all-new Sexual Abstinence Program: Wait Till You Graduate.

Wait Till You Graduate will teach three things:

* That it's cool to have sex, but it's cooler to wait until you've graduated from high school
* That babies really, really suck when no one will hire you 'cause you got no skills to get a job
* That when you have sex, you gotta take precautions to keep from getting pregnant unless you want a baby, and you gotta take precautions to keep from getting a disease because VD sucks, herpes sucks worse and AIDS will just kill your ass

Wait Till You Graduate can also be extended to cover such things as drinking, smoking and getting tattoos. (I don't want teens doing any of those things...because if drinking, smoking, screwing and getting tattoos are all "adult" things, and you do all of them before you're 16, the only "adult" things you've got to look forward to are bills, taxes, watching your cholesterol and getting up at 3am to go to work...and adulthood is supposed to be fun!)

Wait Till You Graduate will totally piss off the fundies, saying we're encouraging your precious children to just screw their brains out on the living room floor...but y'know something? It also might work.

[yurbud]

1. problem is similar to drugs--argument is only compelling IF

kids feel like they have a future.

There is no point in deferring gratification if the future is going to suck as much as the present.

[yurbud]

2. Is this serious? If would have the opposite of the desired effect

if it had any effect at all.

It's like trying to convince kids to raise the driving age.

[melody]

3. It's useless and pointless

Sexuality expression (with responsible use of all the stuff one has to use, along with suitable information) is actually healthier than repression. The only thing abstinence thing does is make the repressed people feel better because they've cut down on everyone else's activities. It's also a major Alpha primate dynamic, too.

[MadMaddie]

4. Your approach is more realistic....

The fundies will be pissed off because they didn't think of it.

[kineneb]

5. wait until you are 18, and legal

then you can do whatever you want. Yes, I know the drinking age is 21 in most places, but after 18 it isn't such a big deal.

[Warren DeMontague]

6. I had no intention of waiting until I graduated, and I don't think I'm any

worse for wear.

I think the folks with their shorts in a bunch and their froth in a lather about how "we" are going to get "these" teens to stop the rampant, spider monkey-style screwing that teens have ALWAYS engaged in, like it or not, are wasting their time, pure and simple.

No, sorry... my take is, tell kids that sex requires a great deal of emotional and physical maturity, abstinence is the only sure way to avoid STDs and pregnancy, and then GIVE THEM EASY, PAINLESS, and FREE ACCESS TO CONTRACEPTION.