Sex_Is_For_Adults

Sex Is For Adults Amanda B. Taylor Sex Is For Adults Do you remember when drunk driving was funny' Or if not funny, inevitable, especially for the young' When my parents were going through high school (they are now 42), only losers worried about the alcoholic consumption of the person behind the wheel. Now, as their kids (myself and my two other siblings) go through the same school they went through, designated drivers have become part of the norm and only losers swerve off into the night. I was reminded of this significant evolution in attitude when our school system began to explore the idea that teaching abstinence to teenagers need not be the province of right-wing crazies. Could it be that teenage sex today is no more inevitable then we once thought of teenage drunk driving' Is it possible to make an open-minded, feminist argument for pushing abstinence in our schools' I believe it is. Sex education does not work. Sure there may be a few nice things to be said about sex education. For one, it makes the teens more familiar, more tolerant, and maybe even more sex, abstinence, teens, condom, even, just, think, control, condoms, about, using, people, marriage, education, both, after, teen, it’s, having, going, first, effective, don’t, birth, because, young, until, two, through, sexually, sexual, ready, pregnant, one, now