Writer's Block: Girls and Boys

[veronica_rich]

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Yeah, abstinence only ... LOL ... because if we don't tell them, they won't find out. Any adult who believes in that after Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston - not to mention their own childhood - is just being willfully naive and argumentative for the sake of hearing their own voice.

Comments

[bayliss.livejournal.com]

I think kids should have to go through a class with homework detailing the biological changes that the human body goes through and detailing the STDs, the proper use of a condom, and the different types of birth control available for use. Instead of the 10 minute movie and the 5 minutes with the school health nurse I got in my town.

If kids can understand the changes and understand the options I think kids will be able to make good choices. I had a friend tell me that her mom told her until she could say penis and vagina without giggling she wasn't mature enough to have sex. She didn't have sex until she went to college. :-)

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Let me tell you what, the movie of giving birth that I saw when I was about 13 was THE single most effective thing that kept me from even wanting to try sex before age 19. There's been a lot of other influence to keep me from wanting children most of my life, including my entire adult life, but that did the trick for that time.