Young people didn't have sex until the state began to provide sex education.
They did, but only lower class kids. Respectabibble middle class kids didn't even look sideways at at each other.
Information produces promiscuity: if you are told about the many diseases and other unpleasant results of sex, this will create an unsurmountable desire to have sex, which would not exist otherwise.
But they're not teaching them that!! They're teaching them about condoms and positions and how to have orgasms!! They're telling them it's okay to masturbate!!!
Making something prohibited by the law will stop teenagers wanting to do it.
Of course - look how well that works for underage drinking.
The law exists to guard itself. not, say, to protect people from arbitrary powers.
Are you questioning this fine country? Sedition!!
Penalising pregnant teenagers for having had sex serves any kind of purpose.
Just like the death penalty has kept down murder rates.
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Date: 2005-11-08 05:33 am (UTC)They did, but only lower class kids. Respectabibble middle class kids didn't even look sideways at at each other.
Information produces promiscuity: if you are told about the many diseases and other unpleasant results of sex, this will create an unsurmountable desire to have sex, which would not exist otherwise.
But they're not teaching them that!! They're teaching them about condoms and positions and how to have orgasms!! They're telling them it's okay to masturbate!!!
Making something prohibited by the law will stop teenagers wanting to do it.
Of course - look how well that works for underage drinking.
The law exists to guard itself. not, say, to protect people from arbitrary powers.
Are you questioning this fine country? Sedition!!
Penalising pregnant teenagers for having had sex serves any kind of purpose.
Just like the death penalty has kept down murder rates.