Originally posted by Veneficus
You people are all talking about how we don't have enough education in high schools...I am a high school sophmore and in our health class we had to suffer through the most disgusting slideshow ever with graphic images of what happens to people who get STDS.
Im a Freshman 😮 but wouldn't you like to see those picture in middle school to help understand STDS
Re: Should HIGH SCHOOL and COLLEGES give out Condoms?
Originally posted by GreenFist
I was just wanting to have a debate on if it is a good idea to had out condoms to high school and college people. What do think about giving out condoms?
Colleges do give them out. When I lived in the dorms first 2 years (im not in an apartment) they would always have a basket of them at the front desk.
No matter what- not even if everyone was 100% properly educated in matters sexual- risky sexual transmisisons will take place at all post-child ages of society, definitely at 13 onwards. Sorry, but it simply will.
Much as I dislike condoms for a variety of reasons and wish there was a better option, it is therefore also true that unless proper means are made available to reduce that risk at all levels of society then infection rates will spread- and don't kid yourself into thinking that tonly 'deserving' people will be infected. Aside form that being a heinous view anyway, the fact is that infections will spread out beyond the merely incautious. And- again, much as I dislike them- condoms are the only practical example of 'proper means'.
If condoms are not available at high school, that simply reduces their necessary availability to a whole section of society that needs them. Infection rates will increase and that's plain dumb.
No amount of education will lower infection rates more than the presence of the condoms. It's a sad state of affairs but one that must be recognised- because in this day and age, infection rates mean death.
Originally posted by Ushgarak
No matter what- not even if everyone was 100% properly educated in matters sexual- risky sexual transmisisons will take place at all post-child ages of society, definitely at 13 onwards. Sorry, but it simply will.Much as I dislike condoms for a variety of reasons and wish there was a better option, it is therefore also true that unless proper means are made available to reduce that risk at all levels of society then infection rates will spread- and don't kid yourself into thinking that tonly 'deserving' people will be infected. Aside form that being a heinous view anyway, the fact is that infections will spread out beyond the merely incautious. And- again, much as I dislike them- condoms are the only practical example of 'proper means'.
If condoms are not available at high school, that simply reduces their necessary availability to a whole section of society that needs them. Infection rates will increase and that's plain dumb.
No amount of education will lower infection rates more than the presence of the condoms. It's a sad state of affairs but one that must be recognised- because in this day and age, infection rates mean death.
For what reason do you dislike them, out of interest?
Because a mystique his built up around the condom that has made a lot of people think that the be all and end all of sexual responsibility is condom use, and I think in the long run that has encouraged a promiscuity that has probably made infection more, not less, likely- because, frankly, condoms are a crappy form of contraception and it is aggravating that technology has not yet gotten a practical improvement on a sodding rubber barrier.
But at this point, removing the condoms from society won't eliminate that problem- it's a one-way door- so people need as wide an access to them as possible.
I really would prefer it if people just limited their risky sexual encounters to those that they know they are safe with- up to and including both partners taking a blood test if need be.
Originally posted by Ushgarak
Because a mystique his built up around the condom that has made a lot of people think that the be all and end all of sexual responsibility is condom use, and I think in the long run that has encouraged a promiscuity that has probably made infection more, not less, likely- because, frankly, condoms are a crappy form of contraception and it is aggravating that technology has not yet gotten a practical improvement on a sodding rubber barrier.But at this point, removing the condoms from society won't eliminate that problem- it's a one-way door- so people need as wide an access to them as possible.
I really would prefer it if people just limited their risky sexual encounters to those that they know they are safe with- up to and including both partners taking a blood test if need be.
I see what you mean. You are of the view that 'condom or no condom' has somehow replaced the concept of responsible sexual behaviour.
That's an interesting one actually.
I don't care if condoms are handed out or not, they can't be expected to supply children (yes people, children, think about that one for a moment..) with as many as they're going to be using and ALL those kids..
What they need to do (and this will help the common man too) is lower the price of condoms. That way, if children have sex, they can buy thier own damn condoms like an adult would have too, and as an adult, they don't cost an arm and a leg..
Originally posted by Ushgarak
Because a mystique his built up around the condom that has made a lot of people think that the be all and end all of sexual responsibility is condom use, and I think in the long run that has encouraged a promiscuity that has probably made infection more, not less, likely- because, frankly, condoms are a crappy form of contraception and it is aggravating that technology has not yet gotten a practical improvement on a sodding rubber barrier.But at this point, removing the condoms from society won't eliminate that problem- it's a one-way door- so people need as wide an access to them as possible.
I really would prefer it if people just limited their risky sexual encounters to those that they know they are safe with- up to and including both partners taking a blood test if need be.
So what do you recommend for safe sex?