Originally posted by DC_DEEP+Jul 7 2005, 09:41 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(DC_DEEP @ Jul 7 2005, 09:41 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-madame_zora@Jul 7 2005, 10:33 AM
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My dear Madame, you know that penises and vaginas do not magically appear until one is married. You are very bright, you should have figured that out. I'm sure that you also know that if we don't educate teenagers about sex, and explain to them that there are consequences, then they will not know that sex exists, and there will be no teens having sex and getting diseases and pregnancies.
Woman, get thy head back in the sand. It will all go away. Now, just think as I tell you to think, and everything will be just fine.
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There is a way to teach students every thing. We teach about World War II. But our purpose is not to encourage young people to be like Hitler.
The teaching of the horrors of aids and how it can be contracted should be required to be taught to every teenager. Period. Of course abstinance is the best way to prevent it. If two people who have never had sex and never used drugs inappropriately become partners for life, they don't have to worry about aids.
Without a doubt that should be taught as the most effective way to keep from getting aids.
And it should be taught that abstinance is the best way to prevent a unwanted pregnancy. That is a fact.
But young people should be taught that when they get married, they may want to limit the size of their families and these are the methods that can be used and the reliability of each method should be presented as factual information.
And teenagers should be taugtht where to get condoms and which doctors to go to to get the pill, and other birth control methods that require a doctor to do or prescribe.
Same with aids. Teenagers should be taught that the pill does not help in preventing aids.
Teenagers should be taught that if the guy cums without having sex and either the girl or the guys fingers have cum on them and those fingers are inserted into the vagina a girl can get pregnant without the penis ever touching the vagina.
Teenagers should be taught that condoms will help reduce the chances of getting aids, but it is not as fool proof as abstinance, but it much better than using no protection. I used to have the statistics and I presented those statistics to the young people.
Teaching factual information does not in anyway endorse any behaviors or life style. It is teaching basic facts just like teaching history and science. The young people are the ones who make the choices in behavior. To tell them about the consequences of different behaviors just might save a life or many lives.
As far as I am concernred, it is being an accomplice to murder, if we deliberately hide information to a teenagers and those teens makes decisions that cost them their lives because they contracted aids out of our "imposed" ignorance.