‘Sex Is A Basic Human Urge And Cannot Be Held Back By A Pamphlet’ Fifth Place

People like to have sex. We all want it and we want it now. While the belief that abstinence instruction should come from this wholesome American nuclear family is definitely nice, it’s futile.

Kids need to learn about contraceptives rather than abstinence and at school rather than completely at home. The idea of abstinence alone is idiotic. Anybody who stands up in front of a teenager and says “Sex is bad, don’t do it,” and thinks that they’re doing some good is idealistic to a fault. Kids need to be pressured to use condoms by people at school.

It should be clear by now that I support school-based sex education, so I’ll rip up on abstinence education now.

In early 1998, the Idaho Legislature proposed a bill that would have made it illegal to buy condoms if younger than 18. In 1995, women 15 to 19 years old had 2,934 pregnancies. Clearly, people have sex younger than 18. Sex is a basic human urge and cannot be held back by a pamphlet. Contraceptives are the key.

People in general do things they shouldn’t. A fourth grader told me how to make a bong, for God’s sake! People have, and will have, sex at early ages. They need to be shown what a pain in the butt kids are, and taught that at school. It’s the only way.

I suppose that this controversy over school-based sex education stems from a feeling that family should handle it. This may sound dangerously cynical, but … kids do not listen to their parents! Big shocker, I know, but it’s true.

At this time in a teenager’s life (on average), we feel that parents are just about the stupidest people who have ever lived. Conversely, we are raised to believe in “the group” of friends. We are also raised to put full faith in the notion that teachers (who are more than likely parents) know and see all. What better place to learn what to do than from our peers and teachers?

It’s time all we all woke up and got real. To all those pregnancy parenthood planned crisis people out there, here’s a hint: Stop pushing parental abstinence education and start school-based (beginning in fourth grade), contraceptives-centered sex education. After all, we’re only human.