Comments on: Abstinence advocates are sooooo cute when they’re young.

By: junk science

junk science — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:54:48 +0000

Abstinence when used imperfectly (which, like all the other techniques, it will be)

I’m thinking abstinence works pretty damn well for high school kids who write articles like this one. They can certainly cite the awesome success rates of their own not-getting-laid initiatives.

The question is, are they not getting laid because they’re hideous losers, or are they hideous losers because they’re not getting laid? Where does a circle begin?

By: romo

romo — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:35:53 +0000

I like the assumption that all married couples want unlimited kids. Because the only people who would want birth control are dirty fornicating sluts, of course.

By: Le Femme

Le Femme — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:43:25 +0000

What also never ceases to amaze me is when a sweet, baby faced little high schooler or middle schooler that talks about abstinence and the benefits of waiting until sex to have marriage to avoid undesired pregnancies and STDs actually has no response to my question for them:

“So you want to be constantly pregnant when you do get married? You want to be pregnant every nine months?”

pfffft.

hook.line.sinker. suckers.

By: Riva

Riva — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:24:23 +0000

“In math classes, are students taught formulas that, if used correctly and consistently, will still fail at some point? Of course not. Students are taught formulas that work without fail.”

Oh wow! Tell you what, in Economics 101 in college, we’re taught formulas that “work without fail”. And then when the newly enlightened freshmen leave the class and try and apply their simplistic ideas to the real world, they fail miserably and make the freshmen look like prats.

Is abstinence like Econ 101? Perhaps, perhaps.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:20:17 +0000

I happened to catch the bit of American Idol with a Catholic high school teen giving an abstinence speech prior to her audition. My first thought was that it’s generally inadvisable to take sex/life advice from high school kids.

By: Sera

Sera — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:45:35 +0000

Dear Nobody,

I’m afraid I just don’t understand. Are you angwy? Can you tell me how to always avoid rape 100%?

Love and kisses,
Sera

By: nobody

nobody — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:44:05 +0000

There is no question that 100% of the time, when morons on blogs STOP typing and STOP opening their putrid pie-holes, they also STOP babbling utter and complete idiocy. Works 100% of the time, guaranteed.

Abstinence works for both birth control and the creation of mindless ideas by idiots.

Of course, some idiots don’t wish to control themselves, and the babbling of utter and complete idiocy continues. More’s the pity for them.

By: Left_Wing_Fox

Left_Wing_Fox — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:54:51 +0000

melons…

*blink blink…*

Giving or Recieving?

By: delagar

delagar — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:17:54 +0000

Everytime one of my earnest young (white guy) freshmen tells me abstinence is the only birth control method that never fails, I laugh and say, “You’re messing, right?”

They stare at me in confusion.

Then I add, “My mama had four kids using abstinence as her BC method, sweetie. Never fails, my back teeth.”

By: Amanda Marcotte

Amanda Marcotte — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:13:52 +0000

If used perfectly, abstinence can cause divorce and instant amputations.