Kids Will Be Kids

I always said abstinence education doesn't work, and apparently I was right.

Look, telling kids to save sex until marriage is not a bad thing, but it closes the door on reality. Reality is, no matter what we tell them, they're going to do what they want anyway. Either they will wait until marriage or until a later age when they're ready, or they're going to do it at a young age; it doesn't matter what they're told. Isn't it better for them to know how to protect themselves should they decide to go and do it?

Abstinence-only education is ridiculous. You are ignoring the truth. You are oblivious to the reality that teenagers succumb to peer pressure, hide things, lie, or just do whatever they want to do, no matter what. There's little you can do to stop them. I was a teenager not too long ago and I was one in Catholic school, where, of course, we got mainly abstinence-only education. By the time I graduated, all of my friends were sexually active. Some started early, some right before graduation, some had a handful of partners, some only one. Thankfully, once we got into junior year, our school started facing reality and educated us on protection.

I have no problem teaching kids that it's better to not have sex until marriage, which, c'mon RARELY happens anymore. Let's remember that back when that was the rule, people got married at 16, 17, 18 years old. Most of my friends waited until that long to have sex anyway. Today people get married, if they ever do, at 25, 30, 35 years old. It's ludicrous and, quite frankly, inhumane to force someone to wait that long to enjoy sex.

It's time to do away with abstinence-only sex education and start facing reality.