It bugs me the way kids are taught about sex these days. They're taught about it in school, with programs that are designed to teach abstinence only. We don't teach kids how to drive by showing them only how to drive during a cloudless day with no other cars on the street. We teach them about the hazards of the road and how to avoid them. So why do we only teach our kids that the only way to avoid STDs, etc. is to not have sex at all? The schools are too afraid of pissing off the relgious right, so they can't teach about safe sex. That's why we have the teen pregnancy rate of a third-world country.
What else I thinkis sad is how sex is demonized in our society. I mean, you can have a movie with blood, guts, shootings and stabbings, and it'll only have a PG-13 rating. But you put one sex scene in it and it's suddenly rated R. I just don't understand why violence is okay for children to watch, but not an act of love between two people.
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Date: 2004-08-11 11:32 am (UTC)What else I thinkis sad is how sex is demonized in our society. I mean, you can have a movie with blood, guts, shootings and stabbings, and it'll only have a PG-13 rating. But you put one sex scene in it and it's suddenly rated R. I just don't understand why violence is okay for children to watch, but not an act of love between two people.