The only argument I've heard is that people won't listen and will do whatever they want, but then, rapists will still rape people no matter what, so should we just give up prosecuting them and let them rape and kill whoever they please?
2007-04-13 04:34:36 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Wow, what does sex education have to do with rape? People dislike when ONLY abstinence is taught. It is an incomplete picture, so to speak. People need to learn more than just that.
2007-04-13 04:39:07 · answer #1 · answered by C-Bunny 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Ok, I'm a Christian and plan on teaching my kids about abstinence, BUT I will also teach them about contraception, because I waited until I 19 and almost married to have sex and still got pregnant the very first time!! It will happen if these kids are not told about it. I have 3 boys and I know what can happen in a lapse of judgement in a young boys mind! They will make mistakes and they will pay for them dearly if they are not taught how to protect themselves! I would rather have my boys using condoms than have to take care of their babies and possibly the young girl that they got knocked up, just because I was too stubburn to teach them about nothing but abstinence! It just makes more sense!
2007-04-13 04:58:40 · answer #2 · answered by mrsvinet 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if anyone has pointed this out to you, but here goes.
Consent is when someone says "I want to have sex with you". Not getting consent means that you are raping that person. If the person is under the age of consent then it is automatically rape, because the law views them as not old enough to make that choice. Ergo, if someone consents to have sex it is not rape.
Leading on from this - that is why rape is wrong, because it is forcing someone to have sex - even if you're married to them, and why consensual sex is not wrong.
Teaching abstainance may have its place in sex education. Teaching ONLY abstaininace is downright foolhardy, because it is obvious to all but the most incredibly blinkered fools that teenagers ARE GOING TO HAVE SEX. If you don't teach them about contraception then they aren't going to know about it, so they're going to get pregnant. Now if you're this wound up about sex I can only imagine your views on abortion - so isn't it preferable to have these people use contraception and not get pregnant than to 'murder' a baby? Because they're not going to have the baby whatever happens.
An absense of sex education other than "don't have it, end of story" also teaches teenagers nothing about STDs. These can infect people who have never had sex before (HIV and hepatitis being examples). If people are ignorant of these diseases then they are going to become more prevalent, more people are going to be infected and become infertile or possibly die. How can you possibly defend this as being a good thing?
2007-04-13 04:46:49 · answer #3 · answered by Mordent 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You make a valid point.
You don't need to hear anything else because nothing else really matters. When you have sex you are at risk. What is there more to learn? Yes you can get hepatitis & HIV from non sexual contact but that has nothing to do with sex ed anyways. Chances are only higher when sex is involved.
Sex is a risk! And thats what we are teaching our youth. Risks! No sex = No risk.
I'm sorry, but to say Kids are going to have sex..blah blah...Are we not forgetting that people did wait? Wedlock babies was not this rampit. There was a time not long ago when people actually waited to get married.
2007-04-13 04:54:57 · answer #4 · answered by Gyasi M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Abstinence is good, but it shouldn't be only abstinence. When my mom got married, she asked her mom (my grandma) about birth control, and my grandma told her something along the lines of "good Catholic girls don't use that stuff."
So 9 months after they got married, my parents had their first child. Then 11 months later, their second. My mom says she didn't drive at the time, so she packed up her two infants and got on the bus to go ask a doctor about birth control. Then they had me 15 years later!
Birth control isn't only for teens who won't wait!
2007-04-13 05:10:20 · answer #5 · answered by calliope320 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It cannot be the ONLY thing taught. I personally don't believe in marriage much less waiting on it for sex and I don't think having sex is IMMORAL!!!!
We need to teach responsibility!!!! We aren't only having sex to make babies. We need to know all options for our reproductive health.
And please don't ever compare rape to abstinance. As a rape survivor it smacks of INSULTING and DISTASTEFUL.
Thank you.
2007-04-13 04:49:29 · answer #6 · answered by Lotus Phoenix 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sorry but there aren't alot of people that have had sex that are trying to tell kids it's bad. i wouldn't go into a class and tell them that they should screw everything they see but abstinence is just too unrealistic to ask of anyone. at least that's how i feel lol
2007-04-13 04:47:17 · answer #7 · answered by kaluah96 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋