Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
"Respect for other peoples boundaries" covers that perfectly.

I do not see much sense in teaching people who wants to have sex that they shouldn't have it.
Abstinence is merely the exercising of the choice not to. Also, the difference between Scandanavia and the rest of Europe and America demonstrates the level of conditioning people go through. You assume that, generally speaking, every teenager wants to have sex and is emotionally equipped to make that choice.

Over here, we chalk it up to hormone levels that peter off after a few years and generally advise people to wait until they are in a relationship.

It's rather like the assumption that all children of Christian parents are either repressed or extremely promiscuoius. Either way, people assume that because a minority of hardline denominations have an unhealthy attitude to physicality we all do. In fact, my experience is that those young people who choose not to have sex do so because it is normal for them, and not becasuse they feel pressured.