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I wish I had waited
L.A. youth ^ | jan. 2004 | anonymous

Posted on 04/04/2004 9:04:31 AM PDT by freepatriot32

I am a 15-year-old girl who’s had sex since the age of 13. There are two main reasons I got into having sex at such an early age. One, I didn’t know much about sex so I wanted to see what it was like. I saw it everywhere from Victoria’s Secret shops to television shows.

Two, I was influenced into having sex because "everybody" in high school was doing it. I was in eighth grade and I hung around people who were older than me. The guys were not virgins. They would say things like, "It is not a big deal." So I thought that if I was not a virgin it would not matter that much because it had lost its specialness.

My parents and teachers were too embarrassed to sit me in a chair and talk to me about sex. My parents thought that I would not become sexually active because my brothers and sisters had not become involved with sex. In my middle school I did not have any sex education classes. At that time I was wondering stuff like, how does it feel to have sex? Do I get pregnant the first time? What is a condom? I once saw a condom on glasses worn by Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes and I wondered what it was.

The first time I had sex, I had to depend on what the guy knew. I was 13 and the guy was my sex education class. He was 16 years old and not my boyfriend. It was his idea to have sex and I was really adventurous at the time. I wanted to know more and it just happened. It was his idea to use a condom because I didn’t know much about birth control. After I had sex, I realized it was too late to take back the biggest mistake of my life. I went home and kept telling myself, "I’m not a virgin, I’m not a virgin." I felt really bad about it because growing up I was taught that you shouldn’t lose your virginity until you’re married.

Months later, when my parents found out that I was having sex, they lost their trust in me and sent me to a group home. But sex is addictive. I became addicted to the feeling of being loved because I wasn’t getting enough love from my family. I began to have sex with people that I really did not want to have sex with. Once I started having sex it was not easy to stop.

I personally believe that middle school is one of the most important places to be given sex education because when you get into high school you will see things about sex everywhere. Nowadays people do not wait to be seniors at the prom to have sex. They just have sex when they think they are ready, whether or not they are.

I wanted to save my virginity for someone special, not just some guy. I think that if I had known more about sex and taken sex-ed classes in middle school, I would have realized that sex is not a game. After the sex-ed classes I took in ninth grade, I learned that there is much more to sex than the "fun" of it. There are sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy, and with those risks comes a lot of responsibility.

In the future, I want to wait to have sex until I meet someone who appreciates me. Sex can bring negative things when you are not ready for it.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: California
KEYWORDS: 30yearoldrat; 30yorat; education; had; i; party; peer; pressure; promiscuity; sex; sexeducation; slut; teenage; teens; waited; wish
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To: mitch5501
Dude, that is FUNNY!
141 posted on 04/05/2004 6:14:52 AM PDT by Xenalyte (in memory of James Edward Peck, my grandfather, who passed on 3/23/04)
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To: Guenevere
"..She, it...him or her.....is promoting sex education via Planned Parenthood...."

Absolutely!!

142 posted on 04/05/2004 9:16:35 AM PDT by international american (Support our troops!! Send Kerry back to Boston.Idaho.Virginia.Georgetown.France. Cape Cod!!)
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To: netmilsmom
What a shame. I don't think lack of education lead to this girl's tragic loss of virginity. Lack of education just led to ignorance. Really, she wasn't given moral guidance that she would regret this decision.
143 posted on 04/05/2004 9:21:26 AM PDT by Zack Nguyen
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To: Pukin Dog
"Oh yeah, I REALLY believe a kid actually wrote this....."

My feelings exactly. NO mention of the church; no mention of moral training in the household or neighborhood or extended family. Nope. Our only hope is "sex education". Her lack of sex education made her run around and screw like a rabbit in heat.

Riiiiiiiiiiight.

Someone with an agenda wrote this, and they did a ridiculously transparent job of it.

144 posted on 04/05/2004 9:22:37 AM PDT by RightOnline
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To: RightOnline
Change the name to "Agenda" magazine:)
145 posted on 04/05/2004 9:26:10 AM PDT by international american (Support our troops!! Send Kerry back to Boston.Idaho.Virginia.Georgetown.France. Cape Cod!!)
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To: af_vet_1981
my daughter is 15, extremely intelligent and a gifted writer. She attends an all girls catholic school. we have had extensive talks about sex and she is totally comfortable in asking me questions etc. She has excellent morals and would NEVER advocate sex education in school as a PREVENTATIVE.

while you are obsessing on whether an actual 15 yo wrote this, i think it is much more telling as to what she said. it just doesn't MAKE SENSE. sex education doesn't curtail premarital sex, MORALS do. and you do not get morals in school, you get them at home, from your parents! so whether it is an actual 15 yo or a fictional one, the message is the WRONG ONE! yes, you wait to have sex, but NOT because of sex ed in school, because you have someone discussing morality and godliness with you at home.

146 posted on 04/05/2004 9:27:51 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
my daughter is 15, extremely intelligent and a gifted writer. She attends an all girls catholic school. we have had extensive talks about sex and she is totally comfortable in asking me questions etc. She has excellent morals and would NEVER advocate sex education in school as a PREVENTATIVE.

Of course she would not. She has not rebelled from your good parenting and sunk into a pit. The other girl did. Her family was unable to pull her out by themselves.

147 posted on 04/05/2004 10:05:27 AM PDT by af_vet_1981
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To: af_vet_1981
schools are not going to preach abstinence, they are going to preach birth control. even the catholic schools are not as hard core on abstinence as i would like them to be and they are ANTI-birth control. what exactly are you espousing here?i don't understand your point, other than your attempts at convincing others that this is a real 15 yo girl. yes, there are going to be kids that rebel against the most excellent parenting and do wrong. i do not want a public school teacher inculcating their morals or lack thereof in my children. which is why none of my kids are in public school, but that is neither here nor there. the point is that sex ed classes are not the answer. more effective parenting perhaps. these parents could not have been that on the ball, if she didn't know what a condom was etc. After my daughter had sex ed in 8th grade science class in her catholic school, she came home and asked me all the stuff she was not comfortable asking there, including slang terminology for different things etc. There is no way that schools should be in the sex ed business, be it for REAL or FICTIONAL 15 yos.
148 posted on 04/05/2004 10:14:46 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: hellinahandcart
"How AOLish."

Wow, wouldn't want to be called AOLish. Sorry. I dropped AOL. Does that count?

149 posted on 04/05/2004 1:09:22 PM PDT by ExSoldier (When the going gets tough, the tough go cyclic.)
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To: Long Cut
And the language used is what an adult author might THINK a teenager would sound like.

exactly.

150 posted on 04/05/2004 1:12:00 PM PDT by RightWingMama
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To: ExSoldier
It helps.

151 posted on 04/05/2004 2:43:45 PM PDT by hellinahandcart
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To: Pukin Dog
Oh yeah, I REALLY believe a kid actually wrote this.....


I got a very similarly written "Mass e-mail" from some bible thumping group trying to guilt me out of some "love offerings" about 8 years ago.
152 posted on 04/05/2004 2:48:30 PM PDT by WhiteGuy (Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...)
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