Abstinence Education

It is slowly becoming recognised, particulalry in the United States, that the sex education that has been promoted is not working.  The figures for teen pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases are still on the rise in the UK as our politically correct sex educators insist on more of the same and to ever younger children.  However, some agencies are now beginning, slowly, to accept that 'abstinence' should be taught to our young people.  Sadly, though, they are teaching that it is okay to abstain from having a sexual relationship if it doesn't feel right at that particular time for that particular person.  They also teach that when it feels right, then it is okay to participate in a sexual relationship as it is the individual's own choice.

This is not abstinence as we would like it promoted.  Anyone can abstain from anything for a while, depending on whatever it is.  For example, many people abstain from chocolate during each period of Lent (the forty days before Easter).  This does not mean that they did not have chocolate before Lent, nor will they continue to deprive themselves of it after Lent.  It just means that every year during Lent they do not eat - or abstain from - chocolate.

Abstaining from sexual relationships on and off may technically be 'abstinence' but it will not prevent anyone from being hurt from the different relationships that are entered into, either physically or emotionally.  Let us be clear.  Even if you think you are 'in love', unless you wait until your wedding night you will only put yourself at risk of being hurt.  Just because it might 'feel right' doesn't make it so.