[quote]PB-Crawl wrote:
You could even argue evolution should be pushing us to not desire sex until later in life.[/quote]
Try.
[quote]valiant knight wrote:
Another retarded bastard idea leftover from the 60s[/quote]
Hahaha!
[quote]makkun wrote:
tom63 wrote:
[…] You grow up, it’s a stupid idea. How will this stop the prevention of AIDS? that’s retarded. People will still have sex. And it’s not that hard to teach kids. Don’t do it, you can get a disease. You can get someone pregnant. Don’t screw a monkey, they might bite.
Sex education has been around for years and in that time we have increased numbers of VD, pregnancy outside of marriage, and now the big boy AIDS.
I’m 46, I had it and things still got worse. Without teaching the why you shouldn’t and drilling that in kids heads, you lose.
Trends in HIV- and STD-Related Risk Behaviors Among High School Students — United States, 1991–2007
[…]This report summarizes the results of that analysis, which indicated that, during 1991–2007, the percentage of U.S. high school students who ever had sexual intercourse decreased 12%, the percentage who had sexual intercourse with four or more persons during their lifetime decreased 20%, and the percentage who were currently sexually active decreased 7%. Among students who were currently sexually active, the prevalence of condom use increased 33%. However, these changes in risk behaviors were not observed in some subgroups. In addition, no changes were detected in the prevalence of sexual risk behaviors from 2005 to 2007, and many students still engaged in behaviors that place them at risk for HIV infection and STDs.[…]
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5730a1.htm?s_cid=mm5730a1_e#tab
Makkun[/quote]
And compare it to the rates of such thing sin the sixties or 70s. I saw no one pregnant in my high school from 1975 to 1981. Explain that. Explain how really shitty is just very shitty and we are supposed to go whoopie.
And explain how teaching kids to whack it will reduce anything? If I was a kid and had a choice between getting laid, blow jobs, anal sex, or whacking it, what do you think I would chose? Unless I was taught that this was risky behavior that I was not ready for.
[quote]tom63 wrote:
[…] And compare it to the rates of such thing sin the sixties or 70s. I saw no one pregnant in my high school from 1975 to 1981. Explain that. Explain how really shitty is just very shitty and we are supposed to go whoopie.[/quote]
You probably didn’t see people being pregnant back then, because of the way they tended to be dealt with - secretly and with higher number of abortions (whether legal or not). But just for the record on all those dreadful young people:
Recent Trends in Teenage Pregnancy in the United States, 1990-2002
[…]Trends in Pregnancy Rates by Outcome
Rates for all components of pregnancy among teenagers have fallen since 1990 (Table 2). The birth rate dropped 28 percent from 1990 to 2002, whereas the abortion rate declined 46 percent. During the 1990s, the abortion rate fell more rapidly than the birth rate. Since 2000, these two trends have been similar with annual declines of about 5 percent for each. The birth rate has continued to fall since 2002, and has now declined 33 percent from 1990 through 2005 (5). Overall, four in seven teenage pregnancies ended in a live birth in 2002, two in seven in induced abortion, and about one in seven in a fetal loss. […]
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hestats/teenpreg1990-2002/teenpreg1990-2002.htm
I’m not trying to make a point other than that you’re working on the wrong assumption that STDs are out of control and pregnancies are on the rise in young people. They’re not, and they’ve been falling for decades. Even the abstinence focused policies - although they seemingly had a negative impact where applied most stringently - didn’t really change that trend if I understand that correctly. This is good news - even though it doesn’t fit into the alarmists’ worldview gouverned by constant moral outrage.
Makkun
Hasn’t the teen birth rate increased since 2005?
[quote]Sloth wrote:
Hasn’t the teen birth rate increased since 2005?[/quote]
There’s been some negative impact as far as I know from the abstinence only campaigns - just read that somewhere recently. I’ll have a look around, if I can find figures for the later noughties.
Makkun