You're getting a lot of interesting responses, but my sense of the demographics is that those who agree with you are either childless or the parent of boys.
The dynamics are very, very different when you are talking about girls or boys, I think. Maybe that is changing now with abortion, and birth control, so that girls are not quite so vulnerable to unwanted pregnancies. But there are a lot of facts you are ignoring.
Condoms are only effective about 80% of the time, if used every single time, but the truth is that people who use condoms generally only use them when they think the female is fertile, which makes them less successful than rhythm.
The pill is dangerous for immature girls, it can interfere with their hormonal development, leaving some infertile for years, if not life.
The evidence is quite strong that girls who have multiple sexual partners before age eighteen are much more susceptible to the viruses that cause cervical cancer.
Not to mention the psychological damage caused to girls by the hard-wired differences in agendas - girls want to mate for life, boys want to spread their seed.
If girls become sexually active younger, that gives boys more opportunities to spread their seed, and I am not surprised when Nihil and FT give lusty cries of "right on!" And I am not surprised when Lather recognizes how vulnerable his little girl is, and all of a sudden (maybe, maybe he's been thinking about it for a while) realizes the down side to what is really male liberation, not really female liberation. I say as one who became sexually active early, and was exploited. |
