Should condoms be distributed in schools?

[Galaxia]

My school does anyway. But it's kinda like a half and half.. It helps prevent unwanted pregnancies but it also kinda says we are okay with children having sex as long as they use protection.

[Ice Lord]

We can go ask for condoms if we want at our school.

[Rammjet]

My school does anyway. But it's kinda like a half and half.. It helps prevent unwanted pregnancies but it also kinda says we are okay with children having sex as long as they use protection.

What's wrong with teenagers having consensual safe sex? Does having sex suddenly and only become a moral option on your birthday...can people really stick to such arbitrary measures as if they're solid?

No, realism is far more important.

No, people should take better precautions to keep kids from f***ing at school, or just at a young age in general. Condoms should be provided to them by SOMEBODY if they are inevitably going to... well, do it, but not the school.

My college provides contraception and a sexual health clinic, but some students admitted to losing their virginity at and younger than 14. It's biology, so it's inevitable and in that case why shouldn't the school be there to ensure it happens safely? The school has the greatest opportunity to introduce people to contraception.

[Chip]

No, that's a terrible idea.

That's basically telling teens, "Here, **** whoever you want! We 100% approve of you having sex wherever and whenever!"

Nothing wrong with that.

[Galaxia]

That's not the school's responsibility.

Actually it is. If the person drops out of school because she has to take care of a child or if she's carrying around a whining/screaming/abused child all day then yes. It absolutely is.

[aNiMaL zEr0]

I'd be one of those losers who'd end up never using it xD

[Chip]

Have you ever been to your local swimming pool and there is always a guy standing in front of the condom machine.
No? Just me.

[Rammjet]

Actually it is. If the person drops out of school because she has to take care of a child or if she's carrying around a whining/screaming/abused child all day then yes. It absolutely is.

Who cares about shifting the responsibility, it's the opportunity that matters, the opportunity to prevent unwanted pregnancies and reduce the spread of STI's.

I'd be one of those losers who'd end up never using it xD

I've never usex my college's sexual health clinic, doesn't make me a loser, just a virgin.

[Dolan Duck]

[Bastet]

It's not that it happens at school, it's that it happens in general.
I'm sure a lot of people agree that it's better to be safe than sorry.

I know that, but honestly where do you think they're going to be doing it more often if they can get the condoms there? ,_,

[Rammjet]

I know that, but honestly where do you think they're going to be doing it more often if they can get the condoms there? ,_,

This is an unfair assumption about people's behaviour and it fails to recognise chlamydia is worse than someone havign sex in a cupboard.

[Tri Oxide]

My school gives us some.

[Bastet]

This is an unfair assumption about people's behaviour and it fails to recognise chlamydia is worse than someone havign sex in a cupboard.

I know that STDs as a result of unprotected sex are worse than that, I never said they weren't. I said somebody ELSE should have the responsibility of providing children with condoms if they're inevitably going to be having sex, not the school.

And honestly I do go under that assumption, and maybe it is something that's wrong for me to assume of everybody, but in my experience kids are already intimate at school and this is just middle school I'm talking about... I really cannot imagine what highschool is going to be like. ._.

[ProClifo]

I was given a condom at school in 9th grade. I think it's good that schools hand out condoms. No one is telling them to go have sex, but if they want to, wouldn't it be good using a condom?

[Chip]

[sirham]

I know that, but honestly where do you think they're going to be doing it more often if they can get the condoms there? ,_,

I believe people can do it whenever they feel like it condoms or not.

[~▲†▲~]

I know that STDs as a result of unprotected sex are worse than that, I never said they weren't. I said somebody ELSE should have the responsibility of providing children with condoms if they're inevitably going to be having sex, not the school.

Who do you propose should have the responsibility then? I can't think of any better way of getting them out there, honestly :?

[skiba]

The real question is, why is this thread needed?

And my answer is no

[Bastet]

Who do you propose should have the responsibility then? I can't think of any better way of getting them out there, honestly :?

Uh, I dunno, their parents? Other trusted family members?
Honestly I think parents should be the ones teaching their kids about safe sex anyways. Schools always fill their abstinence speeches with scare tactics and it's disgusting.

[~▲†▲~]

Uh, I dunno, their parents? Other trusted family members?
Honestly I think parents should be the ones teaching their kids about safe sex anyways. Schools always fill their abstinence speeches with scare tactics and it's disgusting.

I'm sure the kiddos are really eager to tell their family about their sexual endeavors :>