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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (20663)	8/5/2001 8:29:27 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

My concern is how the parent can influence the outcome of the situation. I think you've made the case for teaching kids decision making skills from an early age so that when faced with a decision about sex, they'll have the best possible chance to make a good one given their incomplete mental development. What I meant is that I didn't know of any way for kids to avoid being faced with this type of decision before they're prepared to make it. On further reflection on what those who think otherwise might have in mind, I came up with a couple of theoretical possibilities, though. I don't think they're really feasible in our society, however. 1) One could drug them to dissipate their sexual urges. 2) One could create some kind of physical barrier, like sending them to an isolated, single sex school or making them wear chastity belts. I should think that, with sufficient profit incentive, modern technology could come up with devices for both boys and girls that would be less cumbersome that the devices of old. 3) We could re-introduce the idea of chaperones and never let kids be unchaperoned. I would think that the job production from this approach would get a lot of support from the community. The jobs wouldn't require a lot of skill, just a physical presence, so parents could employ many of the otherwise unemployable products of our education system. 4) Or they could be brainwashed. Perhaps that's more what the folks here who think kids can avoid a decision about sex have in mind. Here again, modern technology could probably produce a device or technique or a combination of the two that would be effective. Unfortunately, even if any of these techniques were feasible in society, I don't think that parents could utilize any of them legally after their offspring reached adulthood, except for brainwashing, which can be done covertly and has a pretty long residual effect. So there's not much assurance that kids will remain chaste until marriage. Karen