Posted on 04/04/2004 9:04:31 AM PDT by freepatriot32
I am a 15-year-old girl whos had sex since the age of 13. There are two main reasons I got into having sex at such an early age. One, I didnt know much about sex so I wanted to see what it was like. I saw it everywhere from Victorias 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 didnt 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, "Im not a virgin, Im not a virgin." I felt really bad about it because growing up I was taught that you shouldnt lose your virginity until youre 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 wasnt 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.
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I think that if I were a liberal activist pretending to be a child in order to get noticed, I would try to come up with a more original talking point.
Her family put her in a home for having sex? Sure, if it were my daugthter I'd be fuming, but I sure's Hell wouldn't boot her to the curb that way and INSURE that she'd remain in that life. Please.
And the language used is what an adult author might THINK a teenager would sound like.
I will assume you don't have in your family, or know of, any intelligent 15 year old girls.
Some families use crisis intervention and tough love to save a teen from an ugly life. When a teens rebel you have limited legal options and strong moral directives.
"A forum in which I participate has been discussing whether or not this letter is genuine.
What assurance can you give that a 15 year old girl actually wrote this"
I'll let you know if I get a reply.
It is difficult for me to assign this letter to either a conservative or liberal forgery because it poses 2 actions (abstinence and sex-education), one of which is contrary to either position.
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