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.
That is correct, all you have to do is own an opinion. You could be wrong. You could be correct. How can you prove it ? There is not enough evidence in the letter. If your opinion were strong enough you could go to extraordinary lengths, even publishing your personals to make your claim to authority the basis of your argument but I would not recommend that at all.
No, I do not call myself an educator although I am called upon to educate others.
You accept the premise that a fifteen year old female American is capable of writing a letter of this quality.
Since we are speculating as to the identity and academic credentials of the writer you might peruse this page for clues.
I vote for a religious family with a rebellious teen.
Obviously not the work of a sixteen year old girl ...
Obviously this is a VRWC front organization ...
I stand with C.S. Lewis (a man far more experienced in literature, textual analysis, and writing than I) whose opinion was that those who wrote the Gospels were either factual reporters or had invented the "realistic novel" about 1900 years earlier than anybody else.
If you read them in the spare, streamlined Greek of the originals, it's clear that they are not literary efforts but reportage.
Oh. Do you think the content so unnerves them that they write off the authorship as illegitimate as in this case ?
I stand with C.S. Lewis (a man far more experienced in literature, textual analysis, and writing than I) whose opinion was that those who wrote the Gospels were either factual reporters or had invented the "realistic novel" about 1900 years earlier than anybody else.
You could pick a plethora of lesser authors to stand with. Lewis was a great one.
If you read them in the spare, streamlined Greek of the originals, it's clear that they are not literary efforts but reportage.
Romans, Jude, James, Hebrews reportage ?
No of course I can't "prove" this is a kid or an adult. Can you "prove" there is a GOD? I can't, but I have absolute faith that a dead man got up out of a grave 2004 years ago next Sunday and said that I can too.
My opinion that this was not written by a kid is based on my vaild experience as a teacher for some 15 years (the last seven in an inner city high school). Some pigs are more equal than other pigs if you remember your Orwell. My point is that my experience and therefore my opinion as an educator trumps others if they're experience is in a different area. The opinion of a professional writer is just as valid as mine because they are tangentally connected. BTW, I write for publication as well, and I have a professional literary agent.
Yes, that is your opinion. It is my opinion that anyone who posts enough personal information about themselves on an "about" page so that they can be personally identified is not being wise.
No doubt you took the time to read the website for the organization that sponsored the letter. You did do that first, right ?
No of course I can't "prove" this is a kid or an adult.
Neither can I prove you are who you say you are but I can make an educated guess. Likewise, it is my opinion that the author of this letter is in fact a teen.
Yes, I can.
OMG! I'm doomed! I've been here since March of 2002 (lurking longer) and I've just been too busy (or just too lazy and disorganized) to deal with an 'about' page.
My bits and pieces are scattered about the board . . . :-D
I agree. There it is in a nutshell. No matter whether a teenager wrote this, or an adult, that is it right there. (But a teenager can be loved even without two parents and even without a stay-at-home parent.)
Yes, please do.
I was referring to the Gospels.
I asked you the question and I explicitly wrote "NT" and not "the Gospels."
The NT as a whole is from so many different sources that it would take all day to discuss. I'll just place my bets with St. Jerome that the included books are Canonical and inspired.
If you hold that the rest of the NT is subsumed to the history reported from the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles then then whence doctrine ?
And if docrine is really doctrine then the authorship of those other books would be germane to the kernel, ?
I assume the author if this letter is genuine unless proven otherwise. Did you go to the website and study it for clues ?
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