Posted on 01/26/2005 7:18:46 PM PST by NYC GOP Chick
Actually that was in my mind - I've seen various figures of how many millions or billions they'd like to reduce, to get the world population to a "manageable" size. Messing up "their" planet.
There are always too many "other" people for their liking. If they were the altruists they claim to be, they'd commit suicide en masse, just to help reduce the evil population number.
Un-freaking-believable. Definite case of wanting to usurp the real Owner.
Condoms are 99.8 per cent proof, which is pretty good going really. If I'm fortunate enough to sleep with 1,000 women, that means that I'm only vulnerable on two occasions. I'll take those odds.
Which other ramifications? I know devout Christians who have affairs and I've seen the ramifications when marriages drag on into unhappiness? I'm not telling everyone to put flowers in their hair and get funky, I'm just saying that telling people not to have sex is probably the worst method of contraception ever. People have been naughtily having sex for a very long time. In fact, many people are more eager to have sex when they've been told it's the wrong thing. Hence, the unfortunate incident in the bathtub with my flatmate's girlfriend.
Educating people on the dangers of STD's, particularly the less glamorous aspects ( warts and all if you like) should scare enough teenagers into condoms to start making a difference. Telling them not to have sex is doomed to failure.
*gets off soapbox*
We've been educating teenagers for about 20 years now and we've got a 30% illegitmacy rate. People don't like to use condoms so telling them to hasn't been very successful either.
People don't like to have pussy discharges either, but it's a regular feature on people who don't rubber up. We have a problem in the UK because all the education has focused on HIV and none of it on the lesser-known, but more virilent STDs.
Education certainly worked for me, I guess I can't speak for anyone else. I'm fastidious about sexual health, but I wouldn't be if no-one had ever talked to me about it.
Why wouldn't education for HIV (i.e. condoms) not work for STDs in general? The method of prevention is the same.
Because it's so amazingly difficult for a straight, non drug using man to contract HIV through normal sex (68 in the UK in 1997), that people just write off the risk. This is a decision they make shortly before contracting Syphilis!
I wonder why HIV rates are so much higher in Africa and STD rates so high in the West. If the level of promiscuity is the same, then why wouldn't Western HIV rates be the same? It's an interesting question.
"Telling them not to have sex is doomed to failure"
Oh dear. You going to Hell S;ipperduke!
You gonna burn!
love the tag line! ROFLOL
Strongly disagree. It worked well in this country for roughly 200 years. It is working great in Uganda and it works well in Christian communities.
If society had continued to support chastity before marriage and had continued to 'shun' those who were loose, we'd be in far better shape. Therefore it is important to mkae sure out children only move in circles where chastity is still values and enforced by the local society
More and more abstinence is being seen as the only correct answer to all of our sexual problems.
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