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Safe $ex Costume
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Woody13
New Member
Love and marriage, love and marriage
Go together like a horse and carriage
This I tell you brother
You can't have one without the other
Love and marriage, love and marriage
It's an institute you can't disparage
Ask the local gentry
And they will say it's elementary
Try, try, try to separate them
It's an illusion
Try, try, try, and you will only come
To this conclusion
Love and marriage, love and marriage
Go together like a horse and carriage
Dad was told by mother
You can't have one without the other
I'm married, how about you?:wave:
Maria
New Member
Originally posted by Woody13
Love and marriage, love and marriage
Go together like a horse and carriage
This I tell you brother
You can't have one without the other
Love and marriage, love and marriage
It's an institute you can't disparage
Ask the local gentry
And they will say it's elementary
Try, try, try to separate them
It's an illusion
Try, try, try, and you will only come
To this conclusion
Love and marriage, love and marriage
Go together like a horse and carriage
Dad was told by mother
You can't have one without the other
I'm married, how about you?:wave:
Married with children, Al? :lol: :animwink:
General Grizz
New Member
Alright let me just say this:
Promoting safe ______? Fine.
But there's a mean to that. Talking about it...maybe flyers...
But wearing condoms all over your body to school is simply inappropriate and a punishable act at many schools.
I know it's against our terms of conduct. You just don't do that.
I think a way to get rid of the growing ______ problem (IT IS HUGE) is simply to get rid of certain things in the media: UNDRESSED POP STARS - Britney, Christina etc - seen on every popular channel for the age group. . .MTV, BET, VH1, even DISNEY channel! (RADIO DISNEY??) . . . on Magazine shelves not to mention INTERNET...everywhere. Teenagers look up to them. One thing leads to another. Girls feel depressed. Subconscious in action. They want attention. And finally. . . an epidemic that has no end in sight as the media is constantly getting more and more "free."
Promoting safe ______? Fine.
But there's a mean to that. Talking about it...maybe flyers...
But wearing condoms all over your body to school is simply inappropriate and a punishable act at many schools.
I know it's against our terms of conduct. You just don't do that.
I think a way to get rid of the growing ______ problem (IT IS HUGE) is simply to get rid of certain things in the media: UNDRESSED POP STARS - Britney, Christina etc - seen on every popular channel for the age group. . .MTV, BET, VH1, even DISNEY channel! (RADIO DISNEY??) . . . on Magazine shelves not to mention INTERNET...everywhere. Teenagers look up to them. One thing leads to another. Girls feel depressed. Subconscious in action. They want attention. And finally. . . an epidemic that has no end in sight as the media is constantly getting more and more "free."
meeko_33785
Well-Known Member
I absolutly agree. Unfortunalty, I doubt that they'll ever be able to get rid of that- it's gone too far. Also, I think promoting the fact that it's a "cool" thing to do at that age and that everyone's doing it. Once you show that it's acceptable (such as giving them condums), they'll just go out and do it. On the other side of the spectrum, you can't lock them in their room forever because more likely that not, they'll rebell and do it. You've got to be very careful how you deal with teenagers.
monorail256
Member
Maybe this girl really liked Left Eye from TLC? :lol:
I think its better thats shes handing out condoms that passing out STD's...
I think its better thats shes handing out condoms that passing out STD's...
tigsmom
Well-Known Member
I just read thru all of this and I can't believe how this has taken off since I answered yesterday. Abstinence is not taught here in health class, consequences are.( and methods of prevention). Abstinence is taught in CCD (religious instructions).
Waaaay back in the 70's we had no $ex ed (but we did have pregnant seniors), but then I was in a small, rural school district.
I got no "talk" from my parents. The first time I ever heard any "details" was in a college Human Sexuality coure...I was about 20 or so.
I've tried to keep the lines of communication open with Lil'mermaid. (we were just talking about this as I type). She knows she can talk to me and I will try to be as honest as I can. As with everything else, if I don't have the answer I'll find it for her.
Waaaay back in the 70's we had no $ex ed (but we did have pregnant seniors), but then I was in a small, rural school district.
I got no "talk" from my parents. The first time I ever heard any "details" was in a college Human Sexuality coure...I was about 20 or so.
I've tried to keep the lines of communication open with Lil'mermaid. (we were just talking about this as I type). She knows she can talk to me and I will try to be as honest as I can. As with everything else, if I don't have the answer I'll find it for her.
garyhoov
Trophy Husband
There seems to be a very important issue that no one seems to want to address head on.
What kind of stupid costume is that?!?!?
I mean really, a t-shirt with a bunch of condoms hanging off it?
What's next? Someone putting a bunch of Post-It notes all over themselves and going as someone who promotes proper inter-office communication?!?!
I think the real story here is:
"Student wears stupid costume to school and ______-obsessed nation makes a national issue out of it."
What kind of stupid costume is that?!?!?
I mean really, a t-shirt with a bunch of condoms hanging off it?
What's next? Someone putting a bunch of Post-It notes all over themselves and going as someone who promotes proper inter-office communication?!?!
I think the real story here is:
"Student wears stupid costume to school and ______-obsessed nation makes a national issue out of it."
Wckd Queen
New Member
Grizz, you know I love ya, but Im going to play devils advocate with you here. Now, you and I are around the same age, so Im hoping we have the same point of reference, as we were teens in the same decade (1980s). I went to a small all girls Catholic high school. One that averaged at minimum one "prom baby", as we referred to them, per senior class. (That is, the "prom baby" that we knew about
) Back then, not all homes were wired for cable or had satellite. In fact, my town didnt get cable until I was in college! So, no MTV with scantily clad pop stars, no HBO showing salacious movies , VH1 didnt even exist at the time, and there was no big bad internet (where I met you! ) to influence them. And yet, the girls in my school, girls who were well educated, who had all been in the same health class that I was in and learned about the birds, the bees, and the boys, were engaging in 'extracurricular activities' with those boys. So now, without cable or the internet, what was influencing those teens behave this way? Yes, this is a problem, but it has always been. I think that what the mass media of today has actuall done, is to bring this problem out of the back seats and into our morning news. It used to be that you didnt talk about this. A girl who got 'caught' would 'go away' for a while or get married in an aweful rush only to deliver a 10 pound premature baby 7 months later. Perhaps its better with things more out in the open. I personally know several level headed teens who have seen firsthand what can happen, and who have vowed to wait until marriage. Will they succeed? I dont know, but hormones have been raging from the beginning of time, and they arent going to stop till menopause. I didnt know anyone who vowed that back in my high school, myself included. I wish them luck
Lil'mermaid
New Member
Alright. I have read thru this and now I have to say something. I am a 15 y/o 10th grader. I have to take a health class that most freshmen take but b/c of a mess up I have it this year. Towards the end of this class we will have a unit on $ex. They dont PROMOTE it... they only want to keep us safe. They do teach us how to use condoms... they dont pass them out. I have had safe $ex and abstence drilled in to my head for some time now. So take it from someone living in a HS scene... this girl was fine until she started handing them out. That all I have to say here.
egionet
New Member
Tigsmom, I'm glad to hear that you are keeping the options open with your daughter. Talking about it is extremely important. You're taking a step that most parents do not.
Now here's some info straight from my human sexual behavior college text book:
"Today the vast majority of unmarried adults are $exually experienced. From their review of survey of $exual behavior among young adults, Seidman and Rieder (1994), cluncluded that approximately 90% of young adults are $exually experience, and most of there individuals have $ex regularly. Surveys of college students have found that 74-88% of men and 69-88% of women report being $exually experience, and most of these young adults have had several $exual partners (Anderson & Dahlberg, 1992; MacDonald et al., 1990; Weinberg, Lottes, & Gordon, 1997). According to one large national survey, the National Health and Social Life Survey (1994), approximately one-third of women and men aged 18-24 reported having had two or more $exual partners in the 12 months prio to being interviewed."
I'm not sure what you guys think, but it seems to me that young adults, including high school students, are having $ex regardless of whether or not abstinence is being taught in schools. Therefore teaching it safely seems to be the better way to go because at least then these kids know the proper way to using birth control techniques and the proper way of prevented STDs. And just to tell you guys again, the condoms are handed out and forced on students, they are told they are available in the nurse's office, if they are so inclined to get some. And honestly most student's are probably too embarrassed to get them there, and would rather go to the store and buy them inconspicously.
Let's read the facts people!!! It's not a difficult to realize which is the better way to teach this!
Now here's some info straight from my human sexual behavior college text book:
"Today the vast majority of unmarried adults are $exually experienced. From their review of survey of $exual behavior among young adults, Seidman and Rieder (1994), cluncluded that approximately 90% of young adults are $exually experience, and most of there individuals have $ex regularly. Surveys of college students have found that 74-88% of men and 69-88% of women report being $exually experience, and most of these young adults have had several $exual partners (Anderson & Dahlberg, 1992; MacDonald et al., 1990; Weinberg, Lottes, & Gordon, 1997). According to one large national survey, the National Health and Social Life Survey (1994), approximately one-third of women and men aged 18-24 reported having had two or more $exual partners in the 12 months prio to being interviewed."
I'm not sure what you guys think, but it seems to me that young adults, including high school students, are having $ex regardless of whether or not abstinence is being taught in schools. Therefore teaching it safely seems to be the better way to go because at least then these kids know the proper way to using birth control techniques and the proper way of prevented STDs. And just to tell you guys again, the condoms are handed out and forced on students, they are told they are available in the nurse's office, if they are so inclined to get some. And honestly most student's are probably too embarrassed to get them there, and would rather go to the store and buy them inconspicously.
Let's read the facts people!!! It's not a difficult to realize which is the better way to teach this!
Maria
New Member
Gary, you are absolutely right! that was my first thought! I thought she dressed AS a condom! It´s indeed a stupid costume! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
On a second thought.... maybe she was dressed as a 'condom dispenser machine'..... she should have picked the tampax machine!
:lol:
:zipit: :zipit:
Lil'mermaid
New Member
No problem. I just felt it needed to be said.