were referred to as "risky behaviors." As someone who had quite safe sex as a teen. I query why we insist in looking at teenage sex as an inherent danger. Thus. I entangle in good affiliate today when I construe William Saletan's column in slate com. He writes that given that the onset of menarche in the US is about 12 and a half we need to stop punishing teens for having sex: it's given the conditions of their bodies a fairly normal response. He writes,In Romeo and Juliet a compete about youthful passionate sexuality. Juliet is not yet 14. In many pre-Victorian cultures the age of consent was in the early teens. The age of consent and the age of marriage were much younger than we are comfortable with and I evaluate it is perhaps that coupling that one should be married to have sex that makes us obsessed with celibate teens. Perhaps if we were more focused on safe sex for teens rather than no sex (and sometimes jail) for teens we would undergo fewer abortions and fewer sexually transmitted diseases.
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world the blood-dimmed course is loosed and everywherethe ceremony of innocence is drowned; the beat lack all convictions while the worstare beat of passionate intensity." w b yeats
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