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From what I've seen and read, young people are more juvenile in all areas than they used to be. An 18-year-old today is like a 15-year-old was in the '80s. There's a huge generational difference, at least here in Japan. Kids here used to drive loud motorcycles day and night. Girls all wore miniskirts, even in January. Now, if you see them in public at all, they're just looking at their phones. They're sheltered and docile, and if they're horny they have the internet... no real need for an actual partner who could get pregnant.
I don't know which bubble you live in -- but it an odd one.
All I can say is that sex ed when I was in high school was like, "Don't have sex: here's a powerpoint presentation of nasty pictures of people who contracted STDs." I'm in the U.S. If my experience was common, it's a miracle we don't have more teen pregnancies.
Might be a fallacious question but here me out. I'm in my 20s as well and still a virgin. I live in Ireland and from this countries Catholic roots (though I've heard the States isn't much better), there's still a strong reluctance to talk about sex, relationships etc...in school. I got nothing about contraceptions etc..in my secondary school.
Some have argued heavily on here that it's the responsibility of parents to teach their kids and I sort of disagree with that because in my case....not a single word about contraception, sex, relationships etc... Perhaps it's because my parents thought I was hopelessly awkward and they knew there was more chance of me winning the lottery but I got nothing. I did learn a bit from the internet.
My question is, assuming there are others like me but with more social skills and actually try to have sex during their teens/twenties, why aren't their more pregnancies? I do know that teens get pregnant but those here in Ireland are mainly people from "the lower class" if you know what I mean. It's very rare that a teen will get pregnant.
I know that some middle class teen will get an abortion because they're more focused on education and a baby ruins that but regardless of that, I've never heard of a girl/boy couple in my school ever getting pregnant. It begs the question, is most sex ed really necessary then? Is a lot of it common sense along with info from peers? Should we not be seeing many more accidental pregnancies from horny teens?
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Originally Posted by Dane_in_LA
Nonsense. You and yours are doing everything you can to work towards abstinence-only curriculums.
I'll settle for common sense like the OP described in Ireland.
OP, since you are Irish, you should look into Ireland and see if they instituted some sort of sex ed program. I did a quickk google and found the following:
Niall Behan, Chief Executive of the Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA) told TheJournal.ie: “We think it’s down to better sexuality education and better conversations between parents and young people.”
Behan said the decline in teenage pregnancy rates first noted in the early 2000s was likely a result of changes made to the sexual health education curriculum in the late 1990s.
He noted that sex ed can vary widely depending on the school, stating: “A lot of schools will talk about the main issues, some won’t.” He said some schools are “very reluctant” to talk about contraception, often for religious reasons.
So evidently there is some sex-ed in Ireland, maybe just not in your school if you live in a more religious area.
I'd think the areas that had the worse teen pregnancy rates would have provided the most sexual education classes in public schools.
From what I've seen and read, young people are more juvenile in all areas than they used to be. An 18-year-old today is like a 15-year-old was in the '80s. There's a huge generational difference, at least here in Japan. Kids here used to drive loud motorcycles day and night. Girls all wore miniskirts, even in January. Now, if you see them in public at all, they're just looking at their phones. They're sheltered and docile, and if they're horny they have the internet... no real need for an actual partner who could get pregnant.
I agree with this. When I watch movies of teens in the 80s and earlier, they seem so much more feisty, aggressive, and risk-taking than nowadays, or even when I was a teenager in the mid-late 2000s.
At my school, no one cared about anything but getting into a top university. The popular kids were the ones with the highest marks.
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