Teens & Sex???

Look at the media-there's sex everywhere. Yet, no one ever gets pregnant or gets a disease. There's no consequence, just pure reward. Many teens get their "sex ed" this way.

Look at our parents. How many parents do you know who are always there for their teen? How many teens feel that they can always talk to them? We crave emotional intimacy, and when we can't get it from our parents we turn elsewhere.

Look at our friends. Everybody talks about how "cool" it is to have sex. We think that all our friends are "doing it" and so we feel the pressure to do it too, so we won't be left out. Peer pressure rules many of our actions.

I think it's a result of the rise on peer pressure. They see everyone else doing it so they think it's okay. I think it stupid though, but that's just my opinion formed off my personal experience. With all the std's out there, it almost seems like anyone would be afraid to have sex. But they're nothing be done to stop it. Birth control and contraceptives are being made available to teens as young as 13 and they can request these at they're annual check ups. I think that also contributes to them thinking it's okay. And these days parents are more lenient and not really being involved with their teens. I have a 17 year old sister whom i preach to all the time about the importance of holding off until you get married or stop if you've already started before something bad happens. I became a mother at 20 and i don't know who thinks it's cool to be a young, single mother. I thank God that i only had to endure for 10 months before my husband came into my life. But it was hard for me and i know it has to be hard for girls who are still in school. They don't think about the consequences behind it...and some don't have to think because sometimes they're mothers will take over and let them continue to live how they please. I'm sorry but once you become a mother...you lose your status as a teen and you have to grow up fast in order to raise the child that you've created. so my advice to any active teen is to just wait if you can because although sex and pregnancy can be great, they also hold life-altering decisions and consequences.

There's nothing wrong with experimenting with sex as teens, they've been doing it since the dawn of man. The problem is teen pregnancy. We need better comprehensive sex education in school, it's the only way to solve the problem. If we teach kids how to prevent pregnancy and disease, and ingrain in them the need to use birth control without exception, then we can begin to make things better.

We also need to start to bring back the social stigma of being an unwed teen mother. There was a time when girls would be sent away to have their babies out of embarassment. Bringing this attitude back would help deter young girls from making this mistake.

I was a teen parent two times and now have two wonderful kids. A 4 yr old and a 2 yr old. I never was and never will be on welfare. I finished school while taking care of both my kids and worked. I now have my own place and live on the other side of the world enjoying life. The way I looked at it was ok I got pregnant it happens and I took on my responsiblity even when the father ran off and we are very well off now. I seen my babies and they are my world I would do anythign for them and by the time they have kids (yes I do hope they wait longer then I did) I will still be young enough to enjoy my grandchildren. Its not so much a fasination with being a teen parent its the fascination with being what we thought was "adult" enough to have sex and prove we werent kids anymore. Not all teen parents end up on welfare and I have alot of friends who never even came close to needing it.

I lost my virginity when I was 17 and in high school...so I guess I fall into that category. But it was with my boyfriend I'd been with for 2 years and we're still together. But I'm like you...appalled at the 14 year olds running around having sex with every guy she sees at a party, then wondering why she's pregnant..."OMG LYKE HE PULLED OUT AND EVERYTHING!". What's the rush? Why do teenagers feel like they have to have sex? I guess it's because our society and media make sex seem like no big deal, nothing special, just what people do when they're bored at a party together. Pair that up with abstinence-only sex ed, and there's basically no hope for the high schoolers.

um i think that it was the same ammount of teens havin sex back then jus like now but most hid it and used protection. now its like uwe dont care who knows and protection isnt all that confortable and thats why more teens are bcuming parents plus we hav more freedom. i dont think it would b cool 2 b a teen parent but i kno i'm not goin 2 stop havin sex so if i do get pregnant i jus will hav 2 live wit being a teen parent and we all kno that can b an outcome n most teens dont care or are ready 2 take responisiblities if that happens

Thankfully my kids aren't teenagers yet but I am so dreading it. It seem that when we were kids we just had fun playing with friends and riding bikes being out side in general and now the in thing is to have sex before you even leave school.

I can't really talk I lost my virginity at 17 and ended up having a baby at 19. If only I knew then what I knew now there is no way I would have done it. I want to keep my kids as kids for as long as I can.

For one thing i dont think it was cute or cool to be 9 months pregnant and walking around town or school and getting things yelled at me. I hate when people ask stupid questions like this. I bet no one says anything about you and you're husband or boyfriend or whatever about having sex with each other? Yea i know its different because im "younger" im only 19 years old but i finished highschool and im taken care of my child but still im a stupid dumb teen that was on birthcontrol but it failed?!

Some young girls cant help getting pregnant, um im talking about a man raping her, its that sex but forced on someone? Yea i believe that would make a women pregnant!

People need to look at the shows on tv and the music we are telling teens listen too, i havent heard anyone say anything about those all i heard was teen girls are hoes because they choose to have sex with a guy and oh shes pregnant shes even a bigger HOE!

But i wouldnt change nothing for the world. Im glad i got pregnant at 17 and had my daughter at 18 IM GLAD THAT HAPPENED. Im glad the patch DIDNT work cause without that little girl i would have dropped out of school got a job somewhere not worth paying i wouldnt be the person i am today, and i sure as hell dont know where i would be without her.

Before people post q about teen moms or whatever i believe yall should ask the question howd yall get pregnant?? Instead of YOU THINK ITS SOOO COOLL YOU'RE A HOE BLAH BLAH!!

Think before you speak.

If you havent got nothing nice to say DONT say nothing at all, because people DO have feelings and you just MIGHT hurt them.

I've been out of school for much, much longer than that, and part of me is jealous that kids seem to have sex so openly and can talk about sexual matters so freely, and part of me knows that at that age I wasn't ready for sex, only curious.

I notice that for every post here from girls wanting to have sex and have babies as soon as possible, there are two from girls saying, "Help! I think I'm pregnant and I'm so scared!! Now what do I do?!"

I'm 17. When I was 15 I was raped by my boyfriend at the time. It was so horrible and I have since lost trust for most males. I have not let a male touch me sexually or affectionately since it happened.

I think it's absolutely disgusting that girls think it is cool to have sex at 14years of age. My friends 14year old sister has chlamydia. I think it's sick! Girls of this age should be out enjoying themselves!

I'm waiting untill I feel fully comfortable with a guy before I have sex and I wont give it away to anyone less!!