Preaching Abstinence is Obviously Not Working

by Zurairi AR on 12/11/2009

in Uncategorized

Hafidz Baharom wrote in The Malaysian Insider about school, sex and politics.

One of his concerns are on sexually active schoolgirls:

How many school girls are on the “morning after” pill? How many students are indulging in anal sex to still be considered “virgins” for their weddings?

While I don’t actually have a care about students having sex at any age (that’s their choice), there are things that worry me.

That would include contraception, emotional and physical damage, abortions and STDs.

How much do they know? How much DON’T they know? How much do they get from schools?

While schools, along with religious and political leaders, continually preach abstinence, it’s obviously not working.

We’ve talked about this before, and we’re confident that if people think rationally about this issue, they will all come to the same conclusion.

Abstinence is a lousy contraception.

Tagged as: abstinence, contraceptions, education, schools, sex, Sexuality

  • Sue

    i read the other post that discussed this topic through your link on this post.

    and seriously, i thought no one else thought the same thing. i’ve been saying it so many times to my friends whenever the topic arises but nobody really responds like they’re interested in the statement. it’s a mere “yea, a’ah”.

    i’m a third culture kid, being brought up around the world since i have a parent working in the embassy. i think that the tck kids are even more careful and thoughtful about how to be ready for sex, when to have it, and what to do. to have safe sex, that is. way back in middle school when i was just 12-13 years old we had to take a class called Sex Ed (sex education), but not by a regular teacher. instead it was taught by a professional company that deals in this stuff. it was more emphasized for girls since part of it was to tell them that they should know that they have a choice in having sex or not; that they shouldn’t think that they have to.

    hence, growing up, i knew what it was all about. although i am muslim, i understand that there is a possibility of having sex before marriage. however, if i ever do take up that choice, i know the rules to safe sex.

    i’ve always thought that that is what was needed for teenagers in malaysia. a good, thought out education about sex. not just one class, but will go on for maybe 2-3 weeks, where they are free to ask whatever question that they have without being judged. but obviously that is probably against the islamic law since that’s probably considered as giving more support to teens to have sex before marriage (which isn’t really the case since it’s more to helping them how to not throw away babies and kill them.)

    this is just my opinion. not asking for an argument.

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