http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/madkow2747/ en-us  I read an article about this study on CNN today. I always knew they dressed like little tramps but I guess now we have confirmation! hah!   http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/madkow2747//#c_209579 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/madkow2747//#c_209579  I read an article about this study on CNN today. I always knew they dressed like little tramps but I guess now we have confirmation! hah!    i agree completely...i'm nursing major in college and i have seen graphic pictures of genital warts and other nasty STD's. Maybe showing teen's what they will actually look like, as graphic as it may be, will get something to click in their head. You can't sugar coat STD's, don't just tell them in high school "it's bad, you'll get warts...it looks nasty", show them actual photos! There is no substitute for seeing actual images of what these virus's can do to you... most permanently. I'm not for abstinence or anything but safe-sex and smart-sex needs to be taught and a lot harder then it's being done now....people are so afraid of offending the students or the students parents that they aren't being taught the whole reality of STD's....we need a change in sexual education totally....(and im not knocking anyone who is for abstinence, thats great, i'm just being a realist) http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/madkow2747//#c_209696 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/madkow2747//#c_209696  i agree completely...i'm nursing major in college and i have seen graphic pictures of genital warts and other nasty STD's. Maybe showing teen's what they will actually look like, as graphic as it may be, will get something to click in their head. You can't sugar coat STD's, don't just tell them in high school "it's bad, you'll get warts...it looks nasty", show them actual photos! There is no substitute for seeing actual images of what these virus's can do to you... most permanently. I'm not for abstinence or anything but safe-sex and smart-sex needs to be taught and a lot harder then it's being done now....people are so afraid of offending the students or the students parents that they aren't being taught the whole reality of STD's....we need a change in sexual education totally....(and im not knocking anyone who is for abstinence, thats great, i'm just being a realist)  I'm absoluetly pro-abstinence, but that doesn't mean I don't want our children educated on the consequences if they DO have sex.  Personally, I'd rather have the kids taught that it's better NOT to have sex until a certain time (and here are the consequences) than to have them be taught that it's perfectly okay to have sex (after which, most of them don't remember the consequences in the heat of the moment).  I'm not an advocate of ignorance in any situation.  It upsets me that the "Abstinence-only" education that is most widely known today is more about keeping kids ignorant than giving them a solid grounding in sexual education and why to make the right choice of abstinence.  It's the equivalent of "because I said so," and doing "earmuffs" over their ears...which in most kids' opinions only makes them want to find out why, and not from the right sources. Not all of us who advocate abstinence want our kids to figure everything out for themselves on their wedding night and beyond.  I think we should be telling kids that they are worth waiting for, that sex doesn't bring/equal love, what an amazing thing their body is, and what sex and its consequences are all about. http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/madkow2747//#c_209794 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/madkow2747//#c_209794  I'm absoluetly pro-abstinence, but that doesn't mean I don't want our children educated on the consequences if they DO have sex.  Personally, I'd rather have the kids taught that it's better NOT to have sex until a certain time (and here are the consequences) than to have them be taught that it's perfectly okay to have sex (after which, most of them don't remember the consequences in the heat of the moment).  I'm not an advocate of ignorance in any situation.  It upsets me that the "Abstinence-only" education that is most widely known today is more about keeping kids ignorant than giving them a solid grounding in sexual education and why to make the right choice of abstinence.  It's the equivalent of "because I said so," and doing "earmuffs" over their ears...which in most kids' opinions only makes them want to find out why, and not from the right sources. Not all of us who advocate abstinence want our kids to figure everything out for themselves on their wedding night and beyond.  I think we should be telling kids that they are worth waiting for, that sex doesn't bring/equal love, what an amazing thing their body is, and what sex and its consequences are all about.  I have known girls from very good family's become pregnant. Kid well have sex that's all there is to it. We do our best when raising our kids. When their out of the house away from supervision and their hormones kick in the most will play. This does not make these kids bad kids it makes the normal.   Education and understanding is the best way to fight teenage STD's. Condoms, condoms, condoms. If you have a teenage boy you should give him a condom to put in his pocket. Give him your speech about how he shouldn't have sex and that he should wait till he's married. But give him a condom because he's a teenage male and they only think of one thing at that age,SEX. I did didn't you? For those that think that supplying condoms to kids is wrong and will encourage teens to have sex all I have to say is what we are doing now isn't working. Preaching abstinence may make you feel your doing a good job raising your kid but that ain't working. http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/madkow2747//#c_209877 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/madkow2747//#c_209877  I have known girls from very good family's become pregnant. Kid well have sex that's all there is to it. We do our best when raising our kids. When their out of the house away from supervision and their hormones kick in the most will play. This does not make these kids bad kids it makes the normal.   Education and understanding is the best way to fight teenage STD's. Condoms, condoms, condoms. If you have a teenage boy you should give him a condom to put in his pocket. Give him your speech about how he shouldn't have sex and that he should wait till he's married. But give him a condom because he's a teenage male and they only think of one thing at that age,SEX. I did didn't you? For those that think that supplying condoms to kids is wrong and will encourage teens to have sex all I have to say is what we are doing now isn't working. Preaching abstinence may make you feel your doing a good job raising your kid but that ain't working.  I agree with Christibdce , Gube and Viciouslindz  and of course Madkow 100%,      http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/madkow2747//#c_209956 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/madkow2747//#c_209956  I agree with Christibdce , Gube and Viciouslindz  and of course Madkow 100%,      Funny how the same people that say the condom is ineffective for birth control - thus advocating for the pill, or of "morning-after" aborticides - even though a woman is fertile for only a short period each month (and hence only condom failures occurring coincident with that period even matter) also say that condoms are the defense against VD when that rages full-time, every hour of every month. Gube, do you really think that condoms are so hard to find, expensive, or embarrassing to purchase as to make parental gifting a significant factor in the frequency of their use?  Gimme a break - that wasn't true 30 years ago, and it is certainly much less true now. But, like World War I generals, you intend to fight the battle over the same ground, using the same tactics we've used for the last several decades.  Soften up the battlefield with sex education and then send additional condom brigades.  Hasn't worked before, but like those commanders you merely repeat the call for more of the same and hold your previous failures as proof that the new plan will work.     Basically, its a numbers game - the more promiscuity in society, the more VD.   While a condom might protect you once or on a dozen occasions, eventually, and fairly soon, it won't.  For you "plan" to work, the protection has to be perfect everytime.  VD only has to get lucky once. http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/madkow2747//#c_210374 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/madkow2747//#c_210374 Funny how the same people that say the condom is ineffective for birth control - thus advocating for the pill, or of "morning-after" aborticides - even though a woman is fertile for only a short period each month (and hence only condom failures occurring coincident with that period even matter) also say that condoms are the defense against VD when that rages full-time, every hour of every month. Gube, do you really think that condoms are so hard to find, expensive, or embarrassing to purchase as to make parental gifting a significant factor in the frequency of their use?  Gimme a break - that wasn't true 30 years ago, and it is certainly much less true now. But, like World War I generals, you intend to fight the battle over the same ground, using the same tactics we've used for the last several decades.  Soften up the battlefield with sex education and then send additional condom brigades.  Hasn't worked before, but like those commanders you merely repeat the call for more of the same and hold your previous failures as proof that the new plan will work.     Basically, its a numbers game - the more promiscuity in society, the more VD.   While a condom might protect you once or on a dozen occasions, eventually, and fairly soon, it won't.  For you "plan" to work, the protection has to be perfect everytime.  VD only has to get lucky once.