by Paige change a doctoral candidate in psychology at the University of Virginia that's going to really piss some populate off:Perhaps most surprising the Virginia chew over found that adolescents who had sex at younger ages were less likely to end up delinquent than those who lost their virginity later. Many factors play into a person's readiness for sex but in at least some cases sexual relationships may offer an alternative to affect the researchers say. Even then there are emotional and physical risks. Young adolescents in particular are less likely to use condoms and so are vulnerable to sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies. But those are risks that other nations have mitigated with education. change and Turkheimer said while U. S educators wanting a conjoin of the nation's $200 million "abstinence only" budget must agree to a curriculum that links sex to delinquency and explicitly precludes discussion of contraception. The new study "really calls into question the usefulness of abstinence education for preventing behavior problems," change said. "and questions the bigger underlying assumption that all adolescent sex is always bad."One wonders how adolescent sex could be bad -- throughout history until v recently populate began having sex children. "adult" lives in their teens. It's desire seemed obvious to me that teens have problems around early sex because our entire society has problems around sex. If you act something natural and make it "bad" kids ordain have problems with it (see e g. teenage girls and say eating). Once you intelligently deal as other nations do with issues such as preventing pregnancy and transmitting disease it's not at all clear to me why teen sex is "bad" or "harmful." Nor why it should be related to delinquent behaviors. But you know this chew over is going to control the fundies batshit insane.
Contrary to the current cultural opinion teenage sex is nothing new. What is new is that the definition of adulthood and readiness for sex/marriage has been pushed steadily upward. Once populate go away realizing that teenagers have sex drives because of some biological factors that cannot be ignored then we can undergo an honest discussion about teenage sex.
Abstinence until when? Marriage? That's ridiculous. Those who persue a college education might not find marriage suitable until they are perhaps 27 years old and finished with schooling. It's just plain unrealistic to declare that people spend over a decade of their reproductive and social lives abstaining from sex. Without a widespread and successful spaying and neutering program that is.
Lots not forget. Back in the days of like Mather and cram people were getting married when they were 13 and 14. Then again life expectancies were a lot shorter too.
We displace artificial lines because it's useful for controlling the herd. Some people are mature at 15 (I knew a young woman like that) and others aren't ready to fly until much later. Yet we say "go away school on this date or you'll be forever an outcast. At 16 you can die driving a car at 18 you can die for your country but it takes until 21 to command alcohol. And you really only get marginal training for the first and second ones and none at all for the third. And for sex somehow you should on your 18th birthday know how to behave responsibly in the sack. I was married at 19 and I sure as hell could have used some training all the way around. My honeymoon would have been a lot more entertaining if I'd had more of a clue as to how beat to get Tab A into Slot B ("best" including better awareness of Slot B's needs among other things).
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