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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Neocon who wrote (20367)8/2/2001 4:08:19 PM
From: one_less  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Look, everything is pretty much out in the open here. Disease IS at epidemic levels, unwanted pregnancy is almost at the level of the planned and wanted ones. Going Steady as a standard for entering sexual relationships offers all the risks that being married and entering sexual relationships do. The norm of the "going steady" mentallity is that one cannot typically make a good choice without having sampled several candidates. So the risks escalate and to no small degree, while the responsibility factor does not. There is a distinct difference in abstinence until marriage vs "going steady" before marriage in relationship to the risk of unwanted pregnancies and STDs. If you think that abstinance until marriage is not a worthy and noble course for human beings to target, so be it. We are never going to come to terms on this slippery slope you are trying to tag a standard on. I find it very frustrating to pursue this with you when you want to carefully and unrealistically label "going steady" as some sort of special class of persons who are virtuously moving toward marriage with a try me out first provision as a safety net. This group does not exist as any kind of norm and if there are a few who might qualify they will rapidly vanish under the vague and shifty foundation you are laying for them.
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