c2kenpo in bold:
In todays world kids are having sex at much earlier ages then us, and the education given to parents and kids alike on the Use of Sex, Contraception, Consquences and Benefits. Amounts to almost nothing, (I have a 13yr old)
Hence the need for education.
This is a time old agument that is not going to go away but here is the agument agasint Plan B not so much as a contraceptive but its UNINTENDED Consequences.
We talk about kids watching too much violence on TV and becoming desenseitised to the consequences of violence, Just turn on prime time TV Same goes with sex why the other night my son was watching (I was out and mom didn't pay attention) A show with Jim Belushi that in a matter of 10 min included direct visual focus on on a mans crotch in undewear and breast touching AS IF THIS IS APPRORIATE BEHAVIOUR. Of course I said something and handled the situation adequately. However with sex comes So many possible dangers that as grown adults we should be smart enought to ask things about our partners . Kids however may not be as wise and as cautious as us.
No kidding. This is why we sit down and talk to them about it.
As for breast touching being appropriate behavior or not...some tend to think it is. I do. I plan on doing some of that within the next eight hours if all plans for the weekend bear fruit. My point? Teenagers have been "petting" (which includes the old first base notion of breast touching) since the 1920's. Its a part of our teen culture. At some point a parent might want to include that in a family discussion...and I submit that ought to be before the kid has done it.
If you want to suggest to that child that this is inappropriate behavior, good luck. He doesn't need the internet, television, or movies to suggest to him that this is "appropriate." His friends at school will talk about it (as did my friends back in the sixties...well before the internet, t.v., or movies showed it). The locker-room will become a child's greatest educator if should leave this subject unattended, and the child's hormones will strongly advocate the boy or girl lend a willing ear to their friend's instruction.
We can't escape sex...and neither can our kids. We best deal with it.
So if you give kids or youth of the world a method of birth control that doesn't require the use of a condom what are you saying? Well to some.. HEY ITS COOL!! And LOOK NO WORRIES!!! ....
Dave, the very people who want to nix "Plan B" have been fighting condom distribution and usage since the Comstock era of the late nineteenth century. "Plan B" was designed for the woman who needs to increase her degree of security. I cite possible examples where such an option might be prudent:
1. She and her partner use a condom, and it doesn't appear to break. She (or perhaps he), being a reasonably educated person decides that the condom failure rate due, though low, is still unacceptable.
2. She and her partner discover the condom did in fact fail through breakage or by slipping off. The use "Plan B" to cover their bets.
3. She is raped.
4. She very irresponsibly becomes drunk, has unprotected sex against what would have been her sober better judgement, and upon arising the next day nurses both her hangover and her ego. She opts for "Plan B" to avoid the consequences of her indiscretion.
5. She forgets to take her birth control pill, and forgets that she forgot it. Having a teflon brain myself (though no uterus) I can understand how this can happen and know women who have been in that boat. One became pregnant and had an abortion. This was her second abortion, the first was the result of a rape. She was Catholic and both abortions tore into her soul. "Plan B" would have prevented all of this.
Sry you lose... there are over 100 different sexually transmitted diseases out there and Plan B I feel simply even tho YES IT WORKS YES ITS CONTRACEPTION it can be taken and viewd as a very very bad security blanket to have unprotected sex.
Nobody advocating "Plan B" is advocating unprotected sex. It is contraception, not disease control. Promoters of contraception have been advocates of safe sex for over a hundred years...well before the term was even coined.
If education was better, and more information out there then yes perhaps but I would rather tote the benefits of protected sex vs. unprotected sex as a parent.
This isn't about unprotected sex. This isn't about unprotected sex. This isn't about unprotected sex.
And YES, education would be a wonderful addition...again the promoters of contraception have been the top endorsers of sex education since the nineteenth century. Further, they've been resisted every step of the way by those that wish to bar condom usage, sex education, and contraception.
For you grown adults, You are smart enought to know the possible consquences of your actions, and if you don't then I suggest you read about the topic at hand before going on impluse.
Start with this: "Not In Front Of The Children: 'Indecency, Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth," by Marjorie Heinz. Its a first rate treatment of the issue of the struggle for 1st Amendment rights in this country and chronicles the struggle for progressive sex education.
Regards,
Steve
