I don't even need American-styled abstinence education: I'm forcefully abstinent.
Now that I've got that line out of the way, I don't like the concept of abstinence education, I'll admit. It's not about it being "inevitable" in today's world because today's students are all sex-craving lunatics who would murder a personificaion of loving traditional values if they had the chance, but rather because it's only one way of looking at things. I criticise my own government a lot, especially in regards to education, but when I'm studing things on a global scale, I can appreciate how open the sex topics are overall. It's not a question of "US vs UK", that's just silly. What I'm getting at is that the students are intelligent enough to a.) know enough about the biological facts of sex, and b.) know the consequences when things go wrong. If neither of these statements are true to a group of students... well, pardon me for generalising to an enormous degree, but perhaps it was because the views offered in school weren't open enough to enable the students to absorb all the facts? In an extension, the student might've not wanted to look facts up elsewhere out of fear of being stigmatised. That's my fear of where things like abstinence education would lead to in a grand scale.
ThoughI believe abstinence gets you laid in the long run.
