Quote Originally Posted by daihashi
If anything they should be sending parents to a sex education class to help instruct their children.
That statement is probably more valuable than you intended when you wrote it :thumbsup:

Since when can we blame children for acting like idiots? Haha. While education is definitely a key issue, whether it be from teachers or parents, I think many overlook the role society plays on influencing young people. All the education in the world is no match for a scandalous TV show that glorifies indiscriminate sex or deviant behavior. Plain and simple. Maybe if people lead by example... teens would understand WHY sex has to be taken seriously, instead of just HEARING that it should be. We are a culture of adultery, promiscuity, and separation. Good or bad... whatever... it is what it is. We are also HUMAN. The drive for things like sexual intercourse, intimacy, and reproduction have been a part of our brain for a very very long time. For us to ignore the fact that we physiologically NEED to acheive that type of relationship, at whatever age, is plain ignorant. When young people see people in media or real life engaging in various types of sexual behavior... the curiosity is absolutely overpowering. Trust me... I was recently young :stoned: We should not expect a teacher to hold a teenagers hand through life... just like we can not expect a parent to be there ALL the time. We need to educate COLLECTIVELY. Whether we like it or not, television raises a good percentage of our nations young people. Now, people ALWAYS claim that this is bad. I completely disagree. The problem behind this type of education, is that we have completely lost control of what is shown in these media outlets. Now, I don't claim to be the moral authority by ANY means. I'm just saying that, with the amount of influence the media has in society... how can we expect anything other than mirrored behavior from those people that spend a majority of their time watching that television? I think we need to educate parents... educate teachers... educate students... educate children... educate ourselves... and most importantly, demand more responsibility from the media for the way they subconsciously influence young people. Adults should be old enough to know better than to believe what we see in movies and tv as fantasy. Young people do not have the life experience to see through that fantasy. Those little subliminal messages, that we ALL know exist in propagan... (woops) television ... really do play a more impacting role than many are willing to admit.
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