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The 'everyone does it' hooey keeps the STD epidemic going
Minneapolis Star Tribune ^
| April 5, 2008
| KATHERINE KERSTEN
Posted on 04/07/2008 8:10:17 AM PDT by rhema
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posted on
04/07/2008 8:10:18 AM PDT
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rhema
To: rhema
Modern Parents :"They are going to do it anyway so why not give them condoms, lubrication, alcohol, etc..."
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posted on
04/07/2008 8:12:27 AM PDT
by
frogjerk
(Hope is a theological virtue, not a campaign promise)
To: rhema
Teens think later do what I want to do now it’s cool.
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posted on
04/07/2008 8:13:29 AM PDT
by
Vaduz
(and just think how clean the cities would become again.)
To: Caleb1411; MplsSteve
Shalom Ross of Hopkins, an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Minnesota, is one young woman who has chosen to remain abstinent until marriage. . . . Ironically, Ross says, students at the U tend to be "much more broad-minded" about her decision than the people in authority. "Students respect the choice I've made, because they know the decision about sex is a 'big deal,'" she says. Ross says: "They see the harm that sex can do, and quite a few regret the choices they've made."
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posted on
04/07/2008 8:13:33 AM PDT
by
rhema
("Break the conventions; keep the commandments." -- G. K. Chesterton)
To: rhema
who sometimes can't wait to brag about "scoring" -- is supposed to be enticing or empowering to women? Give me a break Don't you know that women should be watching Oxygen on cable so that they can catch the empowering "Bad Girls Club" or reading Oprah magazine which endorses women watching pornography.
How empowering towards women! - sarc *required by law
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posted on
04/07/2008 8:17:14 AM PDT
by
frogjerk
(Hope is a theological virtue, not a campaign promise)
To: rhema
This was actually printed in the Red Star? Must have been some error....
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posted on
04/07/2008 8:21:58 AM PDT
by
oprahstheantichrist
(Stop calling them "liberals," they're Bolsheviks!)
To: oprahstheantichrist
Check out the Katherine Kersten archives.......
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posted on
04/07/2008 8:25:31 AM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(Carry Daily. Apply Sparingly.)
To: rhema
... students at the U tend to be "much more broad-minded" about her decision than the people in authority ... They see the harm that sex can do, and quite a few regret the choices they've made. That's because they are smarter than the people in authority and can still learn from their bad decisions. Those in authority believe they are infallible.
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posted on
04/07/2008 8:30:31 AM PDT
by
TexGuy
(If it has the slimmest of chances of being considered sarcasm ... IT IS!)
To: rhema
Okay, let's do the math.
1 in 4 girls have an STD
53% of students have not had sex (approx 1/2)
So of those having sex, approx 1 in 2 have an STD. Wonder how well condoms even out those odds.
(Disclaimers: 1/4 is for 14-19, 53% is for high-school students, no age range given, but usually ending by 18, and that includes boys, the assumption here is that the 53% is equally split along gender lines, which I highly doubt.)
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posted on
04/07/2008 8:38:29 AM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a Liberal when I married her.)
To: rhema
You don't reduce theft by giving kids lock picking classes.
You tell them not to steal.
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posted on
04/07/2008 8:44:45 AM PDT
by
avg_freeper
(Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
To: TexGuy
It has come time to consider that the main push for sex education isn't simply due to incompetence or an ignorance of the facts.
It may very well be that there is a sizable contingent of adults in power that seek intimate access to your children.
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posted on
04/07/2008 8:51:56 AM PDT
by
avg_freeper
(Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
To: avg_freeper
That only works if you’re not working on creating yet another special class of civil rights.
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posted on
04/07/2008 9:06:18 AM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: rhema
In HS they told us asprin was the best treatment AND prevention.
Place an asprin inside your left knee and hold it there with your right knee. Works ALL the time!
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posted on
04/07/2008 9:39:06 AM PDT
by
SMARTY
('At some point you get tired of swatting flies, and you have to go for the manure heap' Gen. LeMay)
To: avg_freeper
It may very well be that there is a sizable contingent of adults in power that seek intimate access to your children.
Bingo!
To: rhema
Maybe we should start a “Drunk Drivers Education” class in schools, too. We should teach children how to drive drunk safely since they’re going to drive drunk anyway. (/sarc)
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posted on
04/07/2008 10:08:44 AM PDT
by
Sopater
(A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left. ~ Ecclesiastes 10:2)
To: rhema
I have a solution, stop providing Health Care to people with STDs. That’ll freak some people out.
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04/07/2008 11:11:32 AM PDT
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To: rhema
Yeah right, the 53% of high school students who have not had sex took a moral stand for virginity! Yeah, sure, whatever gets you to sleep at night.
To: allmendream
Yeah right, the 53% of high school students who have not had sex took a moral stand for virginity! Yeah, sure, whatever gets you to sleep at night. Love the plaintive bellowing of gored oxen.
Did Kersten insinuate that they had? Of course she didn't. The reasons for their abstinence are obviously mutifaceted and varied, including one that's obvious to everyone except liberal politicians, liberal educators, and a few FReepers, apparently: a whole lot of them aren't thrilled about the odds-on prospects of getting an STD if they buy the liberal libertines' warmed-over Hefnerism.
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:59:59 PM PDT
by
rhema
("Break the conventions; keep the commandments." -- G. K. Chesterton)
To: rhema
“that kids are going to “do it.” /This idea is one of the biggest cons of our generation. At least one group understands this — the 53 percent of high school students who reported that they had never had sexual intercourse”
I am afraid that Kersten did indeed insinuate that they ‘understood that it was a con’ that ‘everybody does it’. How many of those 53% would LIKE to do it but haven't yet had the opportunity?
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