Quote Originally Posted by Koga No Goshi View Post
Yeah sorry Rhyfe I know that's the goodly church line you're supposed to go out and sell but study after study after study shows that it fails. Abstinence programs are, in fact, one of the worst ways to prevent teenage sex and pregnancy.
Well the current system clearly doesn't work, at least in Scotland. I know the extent of our problem with teenage pregnancies and abortions is also largely due to our booze culture, but there are so many parents by the age of 13 its just silly. They teach that its OK to have casual sex, apart from psychological issues (but I'll be with almost everyone else when saying I don't pay much attention to them). Reminds me of a programme we watched in a Health Education class. Basically, the presenter shows three different scenarios, and we were to guess in which one the people took AIDS. The first scenario was gay sex, the second was some strange kind of sex which I can't remember exactly, and the third was sharing needles for drugs. And at the end we were told that nobody in any of these scenarios took AIDS - in fact it was the presenter who contracted the disease. What is the moral of this story - I don't know! It seems to give the message that AIDS will just affect people at random and there's nothign you can do about it, and so sharing needles etc will not put you at any more risk than anyone else.

Well done to a retarded education system.