Should parents be allowed to opt out of their child receiving condoms?

[Anonymous]

Where is this happening? Not in FCPS where they have to teach abstinence-only. Parents should be able to opt out, I suppose, otherwise there'd be an uproar. Personally, I'd like my kid to have a chance to have them, to get in the mindset that he should be prepared and take responsibility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: The percentage of high school students who are currently sexually active (had sexual intercourse during the past three months) has decreased from 38% in 1991 to 30% in 2015. There is also a significant decrease from 2013 (34%).

This report is defining sexual activity as intercourse. What I think teachers are reporting is that kids nowadays are having oral sex or being otherwise sexually active, just not having intercourse. And it is these activities that seem to be much more prevalent. (Like, the motorboating PP described).

I work in public health and in the last years have seen young women (in particular) come in with HSV2 in and around their mouth. They have no incidence of outbreak around their genitals, due to not having had intercourse.

It is sad to me because these girls are devestated and I know they never ever recieved pleasure for life-long gift they were given. Strictly medically speaking, I consider a patient sexually active even if they are not having penetration. I now have to ask about anal sex as well because some adolescents don't consider even that as sex, when in reality that is the most dangerous intercourse they can possibly be having without a physical barrier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where is this happening? Not in FCPS where they have to teach abstinence-only. Parents should be able to opt out, I suppose, otherwise there'd be an uproar. Personally, I'd like my kid to have a chance to have them, to get in the mindset that he should be prepared and take responsibility.

I'm sorry. Is this a joke???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: The percentage of high school students who are currently sexually active (had sexual intercourse during the past three months) has decreased from 38% in 1991 to 30% in 2015. There is also a significant decrease from 2013 (34%).

This report is defining sexual activity as intercourse. What I think teachers are reporting is that kids nowadays are having oral sex or being otherwise sexually active, just not having intercourse. And it is these activities that seem to be much more prevalent. (Like, the motorboating PP described).

I work in public health and in the last years have seen young women (in particular) come in with HSV2 in and around their mouth. They have no incidence of outbreak around their genitals, due to not having had intercourse.

It is sad to me because these girls are devestated and I know they never ever recieved pleasure for life-long gift they were given. Strictly medically speaking, I consider a patient sexually active even if they are not having penetration. I now have to ask about anal sex as well because some adolescents don't consider even that as sex, when in reality that is the most dangerous intercourse they can possibly be having without a physical barrier.

yep, and when these young women grow up and get esophageal or anal cancer, they'll wish they just had sex and their partners used protection before they got hpv.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I work in public health and in the last years have seen young women (in particular) come in with HSV2 in and around their mouth. They have no incidence of outbreak around their genitals, due to not having had intercourse.

It is sad to me because these girls are devestated and I know they never ever recieved pleasure for life-long gift they were given. Strictly medically speaking, I consider a patient sexually active even if they are not having penetration. I now have to ask about anal sex as well because some adolescents don't consider even that as sex, when in reality that is the most dangerous intercourse they can possibly be having without a physical barrier.

Why are you serotyping instead of just treating, since the treatment is the same?

And secondly, are you meaning to imply that women "never ever" receive any pleasure for themselves from performing oral sex on men? Really?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: The percentage of high school students who are currently sexually active (had sexual intercourse during the past three months) has decreased from 38% in 1991 to 30% in 2015. There is also a significant decrease from 2013 (34%).

This report is defining sexual activity as intercourse. What I think teachers are reporting is that kids nowadays are having oral sex or being otherwise sexually active, just not having intercourse. And it is these activities that seem to be much more prevalent. (Like, the motorboating PP described).

I work in public health and in the last years have seen young women (in particular) come in with HSV2 in and around their mouth. They have no incidence of outbreak around their genitals, due to not having had intercourse.

It is sad to me because these girls are devestated and I know they never ever recieved pleasure for life-long gift they were given. Strictly medically speaking, I consider a patient sexually active even if they are not having penetration. I now have to ask about anal sex as well because some adolescents don't consider even that as sex, when in reality that is the most dangerous intercourse they can possibly be having without a physical barrier.