Hi Chairboy,
Yup, prior to the invention of the condom every teenage girl became pregnant out of wedlock. You know, those were the embarrassing chapters they left out of "Little House on the Prairie" and "Anne of Green Gables" where the girls get pregnant at school.
Seriously, clearly it is not absolutely inevitable that our children
have to have sex in high-school and that all we can do is hand them a condom. The very fact that this was not the norm in the USA prior to the 1960s should prove that. The problem with abstinence messages in modern society though, is that the social and religious pressure that made abstinence a reality in the past, no longer exists. In fact, we have a culture that does exactly the opposite and presses kids towards sex as soon as possible and stygmatizes chastity. How on earth do we expect a "just say no" message to resonate when the society is screaming "JUST DO IT!" and they have
no moral and ethical reason for saying no. Expecting a teen to be scared away from sex by the current horrendous STD statistics alone is just not going to do it any more than the cancer warning on the pack of cigarettes is going to eliminate teen age smoking.
- SEAGOON
