When Good Kids Have Sex (When Good Kids Do Bad Things) by Katherine Gordy Levine

Author:Katherine Gordy Levine
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: MetaPlume Corporation
Published: 2012-12-04T22:00:00+00:00

Irresponsible Sex: Dangers Disease, possibly fatal, and unwanted children are the disastrous results of irresponsible sex. While not life threatening, lesser dangers also exist like the pain of rejection, performance anxiety, and the loss of sexual pleasure. Mutual pleasure bonds partners. The sexually based pleasure bonding of male and female is nature's effort to assure children are cared for by two parents; however, the emphasis on "better to wed than burn" and viewing sex as the fulfillment of the commandment to be fruitful and multiply, places self-pleasuring and same sex love in the shadows. Not healthy and not what I believe nature intended. My feminist being sees reducing sexual pleasures, particularly women's sexual pleasures, as a male thing and particularly a male thing for those interested in control.

Protection from the fatal dangers is easier to find than the lesser dangers. Information is available at school and on television. By and large, most institutions of society encourage sexually active teenagers to choose safe sex. Moreover, the rates of teenage pregnancy, and venereal disease have dropped. Education helps, but abstinence only programs have clouded the information channel, increased shame for many, and limited providing teens with the knowledge they need to make a responsible choice. Not much has changed since my mother's efforts to educate me involved handing me a book to read.

Confession: I had by the time I was given that book been exploring self-pleasuring for several years. So naturally, I immediately turned to the index to read all about the big M - masturbation. To my horror the book insisted indulging in self-sexual pleasures was the pathway to insanity.

Did I stop my nighttime pre-sleep pleasuring? No. I was willing to risk craziness. Most teens, once discovering the pleasures found in their bodies will risk potential dangers rather than abstain from the pleasures.

Here's an example from my days as a foster parent. One Friday evening, three of my girls teamed up to do the dishes so they could have more time to get ready for a dance at the high school. Brown-haired, blue-eyed Nancy, a pretty fifteen-year-old who acted much older, whispered, "I think we'll do it."

I overheard. Knowing she was attracted to a particular boy, I asked, "If you two are planning to do it, what are you planning to use for birth control?"

"What I always use," she smirked. "It's my safe time."

"But you just had your period last week," I countered. "Even if rhythm works, now is the time to say no. You are not safe during the middle two weeks."

With the aid of a public health pamphlet, I eventually won the long argument that ensued. Nancy recognized the danger of having "a little knowledge." Did that persuade her to postpone doing it? No, she went to the dance saying she wouldn't do it. But she did and as happened all too often that was the end of that relationship. She lucked out, did not get pregnant although her period was a week late. As a result, she made

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