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No. I think expecting high schoolers to abstain from sex is about as realistic as asking them to abstain from eating. I'm saying nothing about whether either
by buffington 4y ago
No.
I think expecting high schoolers to abstain from sex is about as realistic as asking them to abstain from eating.
I'm saying nothing about whether either of those biological impulses is necessary or not, only that they're both very influential motivators for humans.
- nonethewiser 4y agoThen it’s a bad analogy, because eating is necessary. Sex is not. Some amount of sex is inevitable but it does not preclude you from teaching abstinence as the ideal. And teaching abstinence as the ideal doesn’t mean you have shun condoms. What motivates people to create this false dichotomy? Perhaps the worst possible thing we could teach kids about their biological urge to have sex is that they can’t control it.
- AlexandrB 4y ago[dead]