People are just afraid of frank talk. That's a fucking shame.
Greta Van Sustern just interviewed new mom, Bristol Palin. Of course Greta was polite and as respectful as she could be. It came down to, as always when an adult talks to a child, Great asking Bristol what she learned and if she had anything she wanted to say to other children about sex and motherhood. Bristol honestly said she wished she would have had her baby ten years later when she finished school and had a career. I commend her.
But what I don't commend is anyone thinking Bristol, Greta or anyone just saying wait ten years before having sex is going to keep anyone with normally developing hormones from having sex.
When I was a kid in sex ed class we treated it as a joke. When our teacher, who also taught religion at Holy Family, read to us from Becoming a Person what intercourse was, we all giggled. The girls got embarrassed, but they were giggling also. I got in trouble for saying " I'm getting one of those erections like in the book." It got a big laugh and is still talked about to this day in the halls of Holy Family in North Chicago. I got my head cracked with a ruler. My knuckles cracked and a week after school. The teacher even called me a little anti Christ. Looking back, it was worth it.
But the point being, did all of us remember terrible things that happen from unprotected sex? No. We all remember Joey said something funny and got in trouble.
Teachers and parents need to tell kids what happens in the real world. Not this abstinence horseshit. Show them genitals rotten with drug resistant VD or Herpes sores all over it. Smear some baby poop on them and make them walk around all day with the stench. That's what the first two to three years of parenthood smell like. If you're lucky she'll just get pregnant. If not, your genitals rot off and you still smell like shit.
Jesus freaks need to get on board with the frank talk express more than the rest of us. Standing in front of church with a warm smile on your face because your daughters look so wholesome in their pretty white dresses isn't going to keep the lechers from lifting those pretty white dresses when smiling daddy isn't around. And the sweet teenage girl lifting up her pretty white dress isn't just giving up the booty. She's given it up before young man. She's also giving the clap.
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As each of my sons came of age, I bought them a box of condoms and gave them the talk (even though their father/MY husband LIVED in the house, this STILL fell to me!)
What I told them that while having sex may be the talk of the locker room, it, in fact, makes relationships very complicated. So, I'd rather you waited until you were older to explore sexual relations, but if you decide you are going to do it, at least have enough sense to use these condoms. Try them out, get used to them and if you ever need more and can't afford them, ask me and I'll buy you more - without comment. There is much more that can happen besides getting a girl pregnant, like gonorrhea, syphilis and AIDs. I want you to live - USE THESE!
(I tend to be one of those commandant-like Moms :)
My better half doesn't take any of my guff either Rockync. Thanks mostly to her my two daughters are well adjusted.
We were both real up front about this issue. Of course, I didn't have the tact she had, but so far so good.
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