Premarital Sex is Bad, Yo

[see_bee_flee]

Everyone has seen the anti-drug and anti-alcohol PSAs, right? Hi I'm Sarah and I'm eight and in five years I'll be an alcoholic, start talking before they start drinking, your dog wants you to stop smoking pot (though if you're hallucinating that your dog is asking you to give up weed then...I really don't think weed is your biggest problem), etc.

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[seraaches]

i think the whole point is that most kiddies don't know/realize when they're emotionally mature enough to handle sex. When chicks have sex, especially their first time, it causes a deep, emotional bond to whoever they had sex with. Why? Because we are the carriers (gads, i always make pregnancy sound like a disease... xD), and we need to be attached to our mate so we don't just go haring off and we and the baby starve at 7-8 months because we wouldn't be able to go hunt up enough food. Chicks need to hold onto their guy; it's a wired biological and emotional response. To a degree guys get this as well (supposedly), but studies have shown that chicks rather 'imprint' on the first person they have sex with.

i also agree with these kinds of reminders b/c watching kids procreate like your bunnies just makes me ill. Chances are slim they'll know how to actually care for the child; chances are VERY high that she will abort (an emotionally, mentally, and physically scarring experience as logically well it should be: for a creature that was designed to give birth, ripping out its baby would cause those issues); and our society no longer supports 13-year old mothers (arranged marriages ftw!).

By the time people get married, they -are- emotionally mature enough to handle not only sex, but also all of the consequences associated with sex. i had another really good point, but it took so long to tyype this i can't remember wot it is... <<;;;

... <3

[see_bee_flee]

Aw, what, women aren't capable of semi-casual sex? XD

I agree that parents should have conversations with their children about sex, and I'm certainly not suggesting that ten-year-olds are emotionally ready for the experience, and my main problem with the ad is, as I said, located at the end. I don't know if the crafters of this ad were aware of the message they were projecting, but the ending bit certainly implies exactly what I said earlier: that good things and success in life comes to people who wait till they're married, and therefore bad things and failure happen to people who don't. Which...is so not true it isn't even funny.

Tons and tons of people have sex before they're married, and most of them are just as well-adjusted as people who wait, and are often better for the life experience. People have sex and later break up. It hurts, it happens, people move on.

As far as teenagers procreating are concerned, that's where the safe sex comes in. There are tons of studies and crap that I've read about abstinence-only and wait-till-you're-married education, and the teenagers who are taught that (and, incidentally, have sex anyway) know comically little about the sex they're still having. Like how apparently blowjobs "aren't real sex" and you can't get any STD's doing it. >> If kids (girls AND boys, because nothing pisses me off more than the antiquated notion that it's okay for boys to play the field because it's "natural" but girls are somehow tainted if they don't wait) make an informed decision to wait till they're married to do it? That's awesome, and more power to you. But presenting it like it's the only option that won't end up with you walking a miserable dark path because you didn't 'save' yourself? That's gross, and makes me feel icky inside.