Students told they have a ‘right’ to a good sex life: Advice from the NHS
This is my response to : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1199132/NHS-recommends-pupils-orgasm-day-reduce-risk-heart-attack-stroke.html where the idea of promoting sexual pleasure to students is being pushed by Steve Slack, director of the Centre for HIV and Sexual Health at NHS Sheffield. Read that before you read this.
Teen Sex
The problem with teens is they simply do not have the ability to control their emotions.
It is not that they cannot enjoy sex or cannot do it responsibly, it is the simple fact that when they're horny they're going to do whatever they can reason to get off. If that means skipping the condom then so be it.
This guy wants everyone to enjoy healthy sex and that's fine as we would all agree, so they're rationing that teaching them to enjoy it is a good idea to level the playing field and make room for more stable decision making outside of peer pressure. I argue this will create a new type of peer pressure because this line of thinking goes right next to, "But my friend bobby has transformers shoes, why can't I!?" Instead we'll hear, "But Jane has a box of her own condoms, why can't I!?" And at school, "You haven't let him watch you masturbate yet? What's Wrong with you? Everyone's doing it, so should you."
When you teach a kid about something they now know it's there. Duh, that's the point of teaching, right? True, but there are times to teach things. Consider suicide prevention talks at schools. When those happen kids now realize that depressed kids hang themselves. It presents their fragile minds with new ideas and suicides go up. Look it up for yourself. The same is true for STP prevention talks. When those happen teen pregnancies go up, STD cases go up and so-on. These things put new ideas into their minds, and those minds are not ready to make decisions on these topics.
What schools teach should be age-appropriate and guided by the parents of the community. I certainly do not want someone ELSE telling my kids stuff about sex before I get a chance to do it correctly. Sex is personal, private, can transmit STDs, will her pregnant (even if wrapped up) and should be treated seriously.
I believe that we're experiencing the results of an over-sexualized society. It is in everything you consume from before you even consume it (commercials depicting a sexy woman in an ice cream container). Britany Spears leaves her snatch hanging out, Lil' Kim leaves her tits hangin out and all the rest of it that I don't need to explain because you already know what I mean. This over exposure of sex into the mainstream media has made everyone so sexually charged and they have grown up in a world of sexual themes. Now people in positions of influence want to perpetuate it and even advance it to make sure there is always room for their sexual desires to be accepted and met.
Dodson and Ross are not wrong in their sexual liberation and I think that everyone should be sexually liberated/comfortable, but teenagers are not the starting point for this revolution and society certainly should be centered around sex. Sex is a personal thing we do for pleasure and reproduction and it should remain like that. You can pick any aspect of personal life and bring it to the forefront of society and it would still be a totally useless theme to live by as well (sex just happens to carry massive long-term implications like AIDS and Pregnancies).
If we let some people have their way there will be asshats having orgasms (liberating themselves) in the streets while hundreds of cell phone cameras (looking to perpetuate their hard-ons) snap away and I have to find an alternative route to school for me and my kids.







