What breaks more often: Condoms or vows of chastity?

Question

Justify whether or not you believe the use of condoms should be taught in schools.

Steve N--I don't think condoms should be distributed in schools either, simply because you can buy a three pack for around two bucks at any gas station or drug store.

Answer 1

vows of chastity breaks more often than condoms.
many girls i went to church with, promised to wait for marriage. within 3 years about 1/2 of them ended up pregnant. i am not to sure of how many of them had std's or how many actually kept their vows.

so yes, condoms usage should be taught in school.

Answer 2

Condoms, when used and stored properly, have been routinely proven to be 99.8% effective. Which means, if someone has sex with a condom 1000 times, the condom will, statistically, break twice.

Now, out of 1000 vows of chastity, not counting those made by clergy, you'd have to think that given the nature of human beings' primal need to procreate would cause more than 2/1000 broken vows.

Furthermore, "I have a condom, want to use it?" is not a pickup line and never will be. Giving kids condoms encourages promiscuity about as much as giving kids water promotes urination. If its going to happen, its going to happen regardless of what school administration does. If its not, it won't be encouraged by anything school administration does. If it is going to happen, wouldn't you rather know that our young people are protected? Of course, ideally, we want them to wait. But if they want to do it, they're going to find a way. Isn't it better that the way they find is a safe way instead of a way that can have high schoolers getting pregnant and result in a children raising children?

There is NO excuse for withholding knowledge from those that desire it. Unless you are in a war and your enemy desires to know more about you, knowledge should be free flowing and that includes knowledge of contraceptives in sex education.

Answer 3

Vows of Chastity are broken more often and yes I do believe that the use of condoms should be taught in schools. There is a reason it is called sex EDUCATION. If you don't give kids the knowledge how can you call them educated. Schools should only be responsible for giving kids factual info on sex, parents should be the ones giving their kids the emotional support to help them out when it comes time for them to make the decision as to whether or not they should have sex.

Answer 4

Kids are kids. They make a promise and forget about it the next day.

Abstinence is a lost cause.

Biology has a way of breaking all the rules. And sex, by and large, is a biological impulse. And kids being kids, will give in to their urges without much thought.

So what is safer? Protect the kids. They need to know about STDs and pregnancies, oral, vaginal, and anal sex. What is acceptable behavior and what is considered to be deviant or taboo behavior. A condom is only dangerous if used improperly. Sex is dangerous only if practiced in an unsafe manner.

A comprehensive sex education should cover all options, and make those available to the children. If the school board does not take the initiative it will fall to Health and Human Services, or Dept of Health & Environmental Control. Now who is a better teacher? One who teaches for a living, or one who has to put on a happy face, leave their job and go talk to some kids they don't know from Adam?

And if the school board does not inform the kids, then the index of unprotected sex, teen pregnancy and subsequent pregnant dropouts, abortions, and HIV spreads can be laid at their feet. Kids don't know any better, so they cannot be expected to take ownership of their actions in the face of lack of knowledge that the school failed to impart.

Answer 5

Condoms are very reliable contraceptive device and also a protection against sexually transmitted disease. They break a lot less than vows of chastity - look at all the unwanted pregnancies that result from young people thinking it was somehow "slutty" to go for a night out with some condoms, and ending up having sex anyway

Far better to teach about condom use than to unrealistically expect young people to refrain from sexual experimentation. Proper contraceptive education has been proven to delay the onset of first sexual activity. Condoms don't make people want to have sex, they are merely a barrier against disease and unwanted pregnancy.

Answer 6

Voews of chastity without a doubt. And of course the use of condoms should be taught in school....teens have change and more than ever we see how boys and girls start being sexually active at earlier age....we cannot deny what is obvious, as a matter of fact I think they already do this in health classes, don't they? If not, no wonder why we see so many teens pg.

Answer 7

Vows definitely break more often. Use of condoms should be taught but the condoms should not be supplied to the kids. That would promote promiscuity.

Answer 8

Absolutely, I think condoms should be taught. I myself believe in waiting until after you know you are going to spend your life with that person being engaged. But, with that said, since many young girls choose to have sex birth control and condoms should be taught. Vows of chastisty can be broken alot as well.

Answer 9

Vows......
Yes, the use of condoms should be taught in school for that very fact. Better safe then sorry..... It's their choice to have sex or not, but it's better for them to understand and know the use of condoms just in case.

Answer 10

Yes I think they should. Young people will experiment and why not have an educated young person then one who gets pregnant or gets someone pregnant.

Sure one could say that I would be supporting sex for teens, but I am not. I am realist. If the person was raised right then their parents don't have anything to worry about, now do they?