Posted by Dinah on November 20, 2006, at 9:16:51
In reply to Re: What on earth?, posted by Meri-Tuuli on November 20, 2006, at 6:42:59
Plus, my son is not unlike my husband and myself.
He cares a lot about consequences.
I'm not going to tell him not to have sex before marriage. I'm going to tell him to think about potential consequences before penis enters vagina. Or maybe a bit before that even. :) If he thinks about it and is willing to take them, then it's his choice and his responsibility.
And that one percent isn't a lifetime failure rate, by the way - at least that's not my understanding of it. It isn't that one out of a hundred people who use condoms will at one point or another experience a failure in their lifetimes.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHPRC/ch6_bar.html
http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/1997/babytabl.html
http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/2219.html
According to Ask Alice, the failure rate with 100% correct useage is 3% per hundred women PER YEAR. How many years might my son be sexually active in today's society before he's financially and emotionally ready for a child?
And the stats on preventing HIV and other STD infection are even less reassuring.
poster:Dinah
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