Last month the National Association of Evangelicals reported 80 percent of young evangelicals have engaged in premarital sex. And, almost a third of evangelicals’ unplanned pregnancies end in abortion.
The stats led some faith leaders to say abstinence and anti-abortion campaigns are no longer working.
The news got us wondering about sex education. We asked our panelists about it.
Which is more effective, teaching safe sex or teaching abstinence?
Topics:
Culture,
Education
Beliefs:
Christian - Protestant/Other
Tags:
abortion, abstinence, evangelicals and abortion, evangelicals and sex, pre-marital sex, safe sex, sex education, unplanned pregnancies, young adults and sex
I have come to realize that you can't really teach someone abstinence.
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Abstinence-centered or safe-sex education?
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This question is timely for me, as I recently watched the 2010 documentary Let's Talk About Sex, which, "takes a revealing look at how American attitudes towards adolescent sexuality affect today’s teenagers." The film examines how American society's attitudes toward sex–and specifically sex education–are hurting our young adults.
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It seems to me that abstinence is unrealistic.
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I am very much in favor of teaching abstinence
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I thoroughly believe teaching safe sex is far more effective than teaching abstinence.
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We are considering this week which is more effective, teaching safe sex or teaching abstinence. The answer to this question depends entirely upon the outcome you want.
If you want more pregnancies that result from casual sex, if you want more abortions, if you want more children born out of wed...
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Eric Blauer | May 14, 2012 | 12:55pm
Since when did most American students not get both? Please this is a ridiculous strawman. Avoid setting fires in your living room, unless it’s in the fireplace where fires are meant to be. If one is started on the living room floor use a fire-estiguisher. Common sense stuff. To say a fire isn’t best placed in the hearth is nuts. The whole subject is handled in a loony way in my opinion. Libs think handling ones hormones is above a young person or because fires are burning down houses it must be because we build hearths. Crazy talk in my opinion.
LynnM | May 30, 2012 | 6:30pm
I started to agree with Eric Blauer’s comment, at least his first sentence. He lost me when he said that using a fire extinguisher on a fire started on the living room floor was common sense. If someone started a fire on my living room floor, i would be calling a mental health professional, as well fire department and police. Or is Eric trying to say pregnancies, like a fire, can simply be put out? Then I was completely mystified by his “Libs think handling one’s hormones is above a young person…”
The safest sex is indeed no sex, but if anyone cares to live in the real world, and do more than cross their fingers against pregnancies by those thoroughly not ready, safe sex is what they hope is taught. Those who teach “abstinence only” to our youth are those who consciously chose to live in a fantasy land. They are willfully ignorant.
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