Lena_Horne
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Sexually charged music, magazines, TV and movies push youngsters into intercourse at an earlier age, perhaps by acting as kind of virtual peer that tells them everyone else is doing it, a study said Monday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060403/ts_nm/sex_dc_5
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While I don't usually care to discuss my personal life to such an extent on these boards, I've found myself torn between the recent debates about sexual education in schools and which direction to come from. I am still a (to use the old term) "good girl" and find my personal tastes leaning toward Abstinence Education. But as far as reality goes I am an old-fashioned liberal (in the Kennedy sense) in that I believe people should have enough information to make their own choices. That said I am a somewhat reluctant but wholehearted supporter of factual Sex Education.
Unfortunately I am also part of a generation that has, shall we say, not too many qualms about reckless premarital sex as well as its consequences. When I entered high school there were at least three or four girls in the Senior class walking around visibly pregnant. Not to mention the HIV scare that came about for them when the yearly Red Cross Blood Drive was held. That's not to say my own class didn't have problems but, it perhaps wasn't as pronounced as some of the others...
What I'm trying to say is does anyone think that the so-called "Sexual Revolution" went too far?
I found myself agreeing with at least one old media point in an old magazine article at Tack-O-Rama that said to be known as a "flirt" is not a good thing.
Thoughts?
L_H
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060403/ts_nm/sex_dc_5
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While I don't usually care to discuss my personal life to such an extent on these boards, I've found myself torn between the recent debates about sexual education in schools and which direction to come from. I am still a (to use the old term) "good girl" and find my personal tastes leaning toward Abstinence Education. But as far as reality goes I am an old-fashioned liberal (in the Kennedy sense) in that I believe people should have enough information to make their own choices. That said I am a somewhat reluctant but wholehearted supporter of factual Sex Education.
Unfortunately I am also part of a generation that has, shall we say, not too many qualms about reckless premarital sex as well as its consequences. When I entered high school there were at least three or four girls in the Senior class walking around visibly pregnant. Not to mention the HIV scare that came about for them when the yearly Red Cross Blood Drive was held. That's not to say my own class didn't have problems but, it perhaps wasn't as pronounced as some of the others...
What I'm trying to say is does anyone think that the so-called "Sexual Revolution" went too far?
I found myself agreeing with at least one old media point in an old magazine article at Tack-O-Rama that said to be known as a "flirt" is not a good thing.
Thoughts?
L_H