Of Condoms, Teens, and Porn Part One

Of Condoms, Teens, and Porn Part One

Most people have heard of the New Sexual Revolution, the nationwide explosion in the numbers of teens engaging in various forms of sex.

First, the (relatively) good news: Over half of teenagers remain virgins until at least 17. The bad news: 46% of teens 15-19 have had sex, 13% before age 15, 7% at age 13 or younger. Those numbers from the Guttmacher Institute refer only to vaginal intercourse. Factoring in other forms of sex would make the bad news numbers skyrocket.

Obviously, premature and pre-marital sexual relations are a serious social, not to mention moral, problem in the United States in the twenty first century. How we deal with the problem is critical to altering such behaviors and since parents are usually in denial and the last to know about their kids’ sex lives, the responsibility in dealing with the issue often falls to schools.

Many schools are failing that responsibility.

Whether instructional sex education programs serve more to arouse curiosity and whet carnal appetites than they serve any other purpose is debatable and some schools have taken sex ed to a whole new level, downward. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1756)