Today my Christain Lifestyles Class had its first incounter with our book today which paints a black and white picture over premarital sex. Obviously it is a religion class, and the book is this Catholic Education text, but it was so black and white in its argument about dating, relationship and especially premarital sex. A lot of this reading was very general and told us the basics, but its answers to the questions why you should not was very a very unconvicing Pregnancy, STD, and/or relationship diminishing.
So I pose this question how do you feel about teenage relationships? Are we all doomed to bad relationships because we are trying to be too initmate too fast? Do you think that we as teenagers can make these decisions and grow as people?
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I think teenagers can have sexual experiences and learn from it. If they can make those decisions, they can grow due to them. I have nothing against anyone who has premarital sex. It's their choice and no one else's buisiness as long as they make it no one else's buisiness. My only hope is that those who do chose to have sex also choose to use protection/birth control. However, abstaining from sex due to religious reasons is fine too.
As teenagers our brains are still developing thus why push them into 'adult relations' (i just had to quote my pastor) when our brains aren't to that capacity yet??? Why don't we just control the hormones until we become older thus more aware of the consquences of our decisions such as STDs, pregnancy, and rape... Also most of us can agree that we do not have the same 'romance' we had 3 years ago thus sex being involved in the relationship will just create more high school drama and I, for one, hate high school drama... the premarital sex thing is a personal decision based many on upbringing and interpretation of the bible...
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do you think that there are occasions when teenagers can have romantic lasting relationships? I question this because some parents/grandparents married right out of high school to their high school sweethearts, which my grandma actually admitted to having sex with my grandpa before marriage(this is like the 30s and 40s). Have our brains de-evolved to the point at the same age my grandma made her decision I might not be able to?
Risks don't really change with age. STDs are still STDs. Unwanted pregnancy is always a possibility. The guy can always just be looking for sex and then leave.
Life doesn't change just because age does.
It should be a personal choice. And no one should be judged based on someone else's morals. Though it happens anyway...
I actually believe that high school relationships can work out in the long term. I mean, it doesnt happen everyday, and some things that your book says are actually true regarding the fact that most teenagers are to immature to introduce sex into a relationship. i've been with the same guy for a year, which doesnt seem like a long time, but we're engaged already and 100% committed to each other.
and i dont necessarily believe that premarital sex is a bad thing, even if you just love someone but dont think you're going to get married, its a great thing to be able to share that part of you with someone else. the only problem is you both need to have an understanding about it, and that requires a pretty mature mindset. the problem is most high school kids don't have that kind of mindset, and thats when you end up getting hurt.