ACATerry:
I HAD to comment on your rant. It is upsetting to me, when people don't understand things from a historical perspective, and especially if they make up wild accustations or statistics that have no basis in fact, whatsoever.
SEX:
Guess what? Sex is necessary, and good for humans. There is nothing wrong with sex whatsover.
Historical perspective:
Let's look at teenage pregnancy rates:
Higher in the 2000s or 1920s? Higher in the 1920s.
Higher in the 1990s, or 1930s? Higher in the 1930s.
Higher in the 1980s or 1910s? Higher in the 1910s.
Higher in the 1970s or 1940s? Higher in the 1940s.
There were many more teenagers pregnant in the 1st half of the 1900s, than the second. It is true that there are many more single teenage moms lately, but that's because in the 1st half of the century, if you got your girlfriend pregnant, you married her, and she dropped out of school.
Now, lets think logically and imagine life many years ago. Humans have been around for about 5 million years.
Lets look back, say, about 500,000 years ago (or 50,000-it'd be about the same). At what age are humans having sex? Basically, as soon as they are able. Back then, U couldn't wait around to have kids until U were 20 or 30, because you would be dead by then.
When the urge to have sex came, you had sex. Most children were born before the female was 20, and you were considered a senior citizen by about 25 or so.
Now look at today. Biologically, we are primed to have kids as soon as we are able, and we're asking kids to hold off having sex until they're married at 25-35? It's ridiculous!
Humans need to breathe air, eat, and have sex.
Here's another interesting example:
Picture an official military dinner today. After the food, what happens? Everybody sits around and talks, maybe there's some dancing.
Now, lets look back about 200 years ago, at the time of Lewis and Clark. What did they do, the military officers after having their official dinners. They had an orgy. Why? Because that was the commonly accepted practice at the time. Military officers, and other people of high status, such as politicians, basically ALL had misstresses. Divorce was not allowed, so both men and women had lovers on the side. Officers misstresses would often stay on the military posts, and no one thought a thing about it.
So, before we go on about the "olden days" of higher morality, behavior, etc., let's learn something about those times so we can have a realistic perspective.
150,000 years ago, guess how many children were born out of wedlock? All of them, as there was no such thing as marriage.
Cliff
LRD
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