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. Read the rest of this entry »
