|
There's more to condom use than "use a condom" (and I speak as a professional in the field).
Pretty much everyone here who has posted "I never got taught X and I never got Y" is missing the point a little.
TFP is a self selecting group of people over the age of 18, with a desire to participate in a forum that stretches them mentally. We are all in relatively stable accommodation, and most of us have enough disposable income to afford our own PC (or two) and internet connection.
None of us are 14 year olds having a fumble behind the bleachers.
It is an undeniable fact that the US and the UK have really really bad rates of teenage pregnancy compared to other countries of similar wealth.
Every kid KNOWS they should use condoms to prevent a baby, but we still see people here (I'm looking at you Kpax) that ask "was it really a fuck if I only put the tip in".
People in some schools seem to believe that anal sex keeps their virginity intact, prevents pregnancy, and stops STIs spreading - all untrue (OK - the virginity thing is debatable, and as a kid, I'd have given most of my possessions to bang a virgin up the arse).
How many teens realise that a condom will fail if you use the wrong lube.
How many that the wrong size is bad?
How many that you can spread STIs orally and anally?
How many that you can get pregnant from "pre-cum"?
We've researched the myths, and there are some doozies out there that kids believe - doing it in water, standing up, flushing out with coke/vinegar/wine/baking soda/washing powder etc. - that you can't get pregnant unless it's the day you ovulate, that prayer stops babies (this is a true belief in some research).
I was talking to a sexual health nurse recently who had a 15 year old pregnant girl from a good school with a 19 year old BF also in education and neither of them knew why she was pregnant, because they weren't married. Both went to Church schools.
The list goes on.
There is no such thing as knowing too much about where babies come from, there is no such thing as knowing too much about protecting your own health. There is no reason that knowing about safe sex makes you have sex sooner, or more riskily, or with more partners.
Seatbelt and helmet laws do not make kids take up racing driving, sex education does not make kids fuck. Hormones and interest make kids fuck.
If we satisfy their interest in the classroom factually, they may actually chose not to satisfy it in the bedroom carnally.
__________________
╔═════════════════════════════════════════╗
Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
And deep beneath the rolling waves,
In labyrinths of Coral Caves,
The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
And everthing is Green and Submarine
╚═════════════════════════════════════════╝
|