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Actually, [b]our bodies were designed solely for reproduction and propagation[/b]. So, yes, the female body is designed to be sexually attractive to males, as well as to be able to bear and feed young. You may have other uses in mind for your body, but those activities weren't what nature had in mind.

Saying that teenage boys shouldn't be distracted by teenage girls' bodies makes as much sense as saying male dogs shouldn't be distracted by a female dog in heat. Certainly teenage boys need to control their [i]behavior.[/i]  Expecting them not to be distracted is simply folly, and displays a shocking lack of knowledge of human sexuality.[/quote]

This is biologically factually incorrect -- entirely aside from the further facts that, as far as science is concerned, our bodies aren't designed for anything, and nature doesn't have anything in mind.[/quote]

Every single creature on the Earth has three things that they are programmed to do: survive as long as possible, produce young and die natural deaths.  Only humans have tried to twist this.  We've gotten to a point that people live decades beyond where they would without medical intervention, sometimes in a vegetative state.  We try to argue that producing children isn't a biological instinct, and we take steps to medically intervene when we can't conceive without help and when we don't want as many children as we might be physically capable of having.  We also don't want to die when our bodies give out, thinking that 40, 50 or 60 should be too young, but if the body has been abused or is genetically not cut out for 90 years, that's the way it is.

I'm not saying that these are all bad things.  My sister would have died 10 years ago, at 25, without medical intervention, and she remains alive and living with a quality of life that she can still enjoy by using numerous medications and seeing her doctors a few times every month or two.  No, she shouldn't be carrying any children, ever, and she's taken steps to prevent it.  While she and I discussed how long we would love when we were little kids to teenagers, and based on our family genetics we predicted 90-105, she knows that she'll be lucky if she sees 50.

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The point to this is that kids are always going to be distracted by each other.  We can teach them that some things don't have to be a competition, but instinct says everything is a competition, that only the best have the best chances.  We can teach our children that our bodies are not here solely to have sex and produce children, but the instincts are still there, and when teens are going through hormonal upheavals, parental guidance can go out the window.  Finally, I'm tired of seeing the people that cling to a dying person look at me like I'm a leper.  Our family has always been one to give the person who is dying privacy, dignity.  Death isn't pretty, but I would prefer to honor my family's wishes than fit someone else's idea of what is right.[/quote]

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