Abstinence Works 100% of the Time... Almost

[Rusty5329]

100% of the time. That's the claim made by one of those beloved freepers, and backed up by several posters. And they are right, abstinence works 100% of the time, if you do not count all those that were taught abstinence only and ignored it. I should cough here, and under my breath mutter, "Bristol Palin."

Continued at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/5/13/730985/-Abstinence-Works-100-of-the-Time...-Almost

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[NC_Nurse]

1. Oh for Pete's sake. Nobody argues that it doesn't work if one abstains. The

problem is abstinence EDUCATION doesn't work. How stupid.

[Rusty5329]

5. and this poster...

actually has the balls to call us unrealistic. What's more unrealistic, that teenagers in the heat of the moment are still capable of strapping up, or that if you tell them not to have sex they won't?

[Warren DeMontague]

2. And anyone who wants to abstain is free to. I think most of the freeps are practicing abstinence

albeit involuntarily.

[jobycom]

3. They are showing their lack of faith in the Christianity with that comment.

[kirby]

4. Didn't work for the Virgin Mary n/t

[Orsino]

6. Abstaining from sex with a freeper is presumably easier. n/t

[Rusty5329]

9. abstaining from sex with a freeper...

is the best advice we can give our youths. Anything to keep those wacko's from having children.

[county worker]

7. Abstinence works because when it doesn't it wasn't used.

If you abstain from sex you don't get pregnant. If you get pregnant you didn't abstain. What doesn't work is abstinence training as a means of preventing teen pregnancy.

[Rusty5329]

8. I don't like to bring it up...

but if you are raped, you abstained from sex, yet can still get pregnant. Of course, abstinence only proponents would argue that you did not abstain from sex.

[county worker]

10. Well, you remind me that the one absolute I can believe in is that there are no absolutes.

[yesphan]

11. Wow, really ?

Not killing yourself is the best from of suicide prevention. Doh'K !
This is the sort of stuff I remember reading in the National Lampoon back in the '70's.

The interpolations inculcated into our home schooled folk are beginning to show up in their
speech and belief systems. Amusing on the one hand, frightening on the other.

[Rusty5329]

12. yep

"Amusing on the one hand, frightening on the other." It's one of those things you laugh at to prevent you from pulling your hair out.

[Boojatta]

13. Suppose there's a ticking time bomb.

If you are busy having sex, then you probably won't be able to torture someone to extract the required information while there's still time, unless you have been educated in the art of simultaneously having sex with one person while torturing another person.

Proper sex education has two components:

1. the art of abstaining; and

2. the art of simultaneously having sex with one person while torturing another person.