Just 'cos I don't f**k everything that has a cock...

It was earlier this week that my younger sister, who is 15, found herself in health class in a doing group work with people she doesn't really like. They had a visit from the people at Family Planning! They were talking about safe sex and contraception, as you do, and she realised that all the other girls in her group were on The Pill.... Hm. She finished this ancedote with "Just 'cos I don't fuck everything with a cock." This made me laugh, then it got me thinking.

Can teenagers have a healthy sex life?

To be honest this isn't my question. I stole it off the news from a couple of months ago when the question was posed by someone who obviously studies teenager's sex lives. They answered with: Yes. As a teen I think No.

Personally the thought of two people rubbing their bits together repulses me slightly especially when these two people barely know the other. I can barely hold a conversation with someone I don't know let alone touch them, and when I mean touch them I mean like pat them on the shoulder so you can see why the thought of casual sex grosses me out. What I find hard to believe is that sex is a part of teen's lives now. No, wait. I can believe it, I just don't know how they don't think sex is a big deal. No, wait. I do know how sex can be seen as normal.

I once read this book (fictional), the name of which completely escapes me, about a guy doing a project about sex for a science competition in which he interviews all these people to find out what their experiences were like. The people he interviewed saw that the first time having sex was like immunisation shot * (well that's the vibe I was getting when he interviewed his mother.). He wanted his best friend (who was a girl) to have sex with him so he could find out what it was like and he said he would pay her for being a big part of the film but I think something happened and they didn't end up doing it. The only character I didn't really believe was the "hot popular girl" for the following reasons: "Hot popular girl" fell in love with the protagonist "geeky" guy, she had posters of scientist like Einstein and Newton (if I remember correctly) on her bedroom wall and lastly she TALKED to these posters about "geeky" guy... WHAT?! Let's digress from the topic of this post.
Who has posters of scientists on their walls??? Not even I or my friends, who are perceived as very sciency, have posters of scientist on their walls. One: Where do you get these posters from? It's not like they have Mary Curie in the posters rack at Sounds. Two: Why would you want these posters? It's not like they were very interesting to look at. Three: She's the "hot popular girl"... I think that's enough said.

I remember when I was in yr 8 there was a boy in my class who said that couldn't wait until he was 16 so that he could go to a party and have sex with a random hot chick. His mother had him when she was 16 he boasted. I can see where he got his eagerness from.

What was I saying again? Casual sex and teenagers. Well in my opinion, even though I haven't really expressed it well, I think that teenagers today are growing up twice as fast as they have in previous years. This has been brought on by our constant communication with each other and the global community as well as becoming aware of adult behaviours at a young age through TV. Though this may bring many good points such as being able to have vaild opinions on important issues I don't think that having casual sex is one of those good points. How can sex be healthy for teenagers when it can mess people up? Of course the obvious STD/Is you can get from sleeping around can screw you up but there are also the social implications. You are labeled a slut/whore/player for sleeping around and can lose friendships and relationships through doing so. I think it's stupid to cause trouble and having sex with random people is definitely something that causes trouble. There's a reason we have sex and that is to make babies. So I think it's a stupid idea to play with fire unless you want to get burnt.

I haven't even really begun on this topic. I will post something else later. Keep an eye out.

*Sorry that sentence doesn't really make sense.