Is there some kind of implied "horrible" in waiting?
Yes, sex is horrible but violence is OKEY DOKEY! Bass-ackwards. We can't show two people sharing love and intimacy, but we CAN show people killing each other. Sheesh.
Michael
Most of the bad things people are forever attributing to sexual indulgence -- demeaning women; conceiving children they don't want and don't know how to care for; lying to gain sexual access; marital infidelity -- are expressions of character flaws or failures of responsibility that just have sex as one of their occasions. It's a bit like the drug mess. The argument has been made that we ban drugs because intoxication is harmful to society, yet there are innumerable persons who use intoxicants modestly and cautiously, and many legal ways to get completely smashed that no one would suggest should be banned.
If we want our young folks to behave responsibly as sexual beings, we have to exhibit honesty and teach responsibility. That includes giving our kids the benefit of what we know to be true, not pretending to certainty or uniformity where it doesn't exist, and not letting them wriggle out from under the consequences of their decisions and actions. President Bush's concept of a "culture of life" seems to me to be central to that effort.
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