Katrina: Teens Can Control Sexual Urges

Katrina: I think we do young people (and many adults, too) a disservice by implying that we are mere victims of our sexual urges, powerless to resist their overwhelming force. Certainly the sexual drive is a powerful thing, but so is the human mind. I experienced just as much physical desire as anyone coming up through my teen years. But because I had made a commitment to abstinence and had been educated by very loving parents on ways to avoid excessive temptation, I’m happy to say that I followed through on that commitment. To communicate, deliberately or otherwise, that sexual activity before marriage is a biological inevitability is flat-out misinformation. Of course I care about disease and pregnancy, and I’m not advocating keeping kids in the dark about their causes and prevention, but it’s ridiculous to dismiss abstinence out of hand as a viable solution and something to be encouraged.

DFO: Well said, Katrina; I’m so tired of listening to people who say that youngsters can’t control themselves sexually. I know many who do.