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Originally posted by sgtclub But then she offered warm words to opponents of abortion and said that faith and organized religion were the "primary" reasons teenagers abstained from sexual relations.
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This is obviously idiotic. The absolute far and away primary reason teenagers abstain from sexual relations is they can't find anyone they are willing to have sex with who is willing to have sex with them.
Distant also-rans are (i) fear that one's father/the girl's father will kill them, (ii) difficulty purchasing reliable birth control without parental knowledge, without a car and/or on one's allowance, (iii) vague romantic notions fostered by movies and PG-13 rated romance novels that sex should always be "special" and involve champagne and unicorns and Justin Timberlake and no icky fluids, (iv) abject fear that the object of one's crush will see one naked and laugh and laugh and laugh, and (v) closely related to (iv), fear that you will do it wrong because you have no clue what you are doing. Then comes fear that everyone will find out and think you are a slut, and then, maybe, comes religious conviction.
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