And South Carolina goes one better,

[fantome profane]

I just find it ironic that suddenly, book banning is all on the news and so many people don't know the history of it.

If people did know the history of it they would not still be doing it.

Maybe people should read more history BOOKS.






If those books have not already been banned.

 

[Kathryn]

If people did know the history of it they would not still be doing it.

Maybe people should read more history BOOKS.

Totally agree.

 

[Pogo]

I disagree. It was far better than today's promiscuity is and you know it.

You won't believe this I know, but statistics say that HS graduates are more likely to be virgins today than any time in the last 50 years or so, in fact it has climbed over 50%.

As for sex ed, with most people not living on farms any more and getting the basics before the age of 10, instruction on the hormonal changes and feelings due to sexual maturity needs to be taught. In another of those societal pressures against freedom, we not only discourage behavior from this point we even prohibit it as at no time in human history.
Why are you so against the human drive and right to sexual Congress, it seems not in keeping with the rights of the individual?
Could it be that you think that some behaviours should be subject to decisions of the polity, perchance for the mutual good?

 

[Pogo]

It means just what it says it means.

Just because you felt left out doesn't change reality.
Tell me nobody in your HS went away to visit for a year.

 

[Pogo]

I think he is saying that teens are boinking more now than they did in the 50's but the lower teen pregnancy is because they are being responsible. That the boinking is what he finds objectionable and wants to return to the oppression that he imagines existed in the 50's.

I don't know if this is true, and even if it is I think it is good that teens are being more responsible and we should encourage that.

And if @Twilight Hue objects to my characterization of his viewpoint, he can explain it for himself.

Indications are that recently, they are in fact bonking less and they are more responsible.
Blame it on OPEC and the shift to smaller cars or urbanization so it is harder to find that private place or the rise of liberal ideas or whatever.

 

[Pogo]

Actually you hit the nail on the head. Aside from me thinking boinking each other is objectionable. I encourage more boinking around. Calms people down.

Boinking each other has never been higher but there is more responsibility in limiting potential pregnancy until they are ready to raise children.

I'm glad someone is smart enough to understand my commentary for the most part anyways.

except that you are wrong, boinking amongst teenagers is actually less prevalent than in the past.

 

[Pogo]

They're banning the bible, then......?

Ever heard of special pleading?

 

[Pogo]

In context, people married younger back then. This would have led to younger child birth ages for moms. Not enough to completely explain away your stats, but a little:

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voluntarily and intentionally married? I suppose if you go back far enough, but even by 1950 that was rare outside of a few states.

 

[Wirey]

voluntarily and intentionally married? I suppose if you go back far enough, but even by 1950 that was rare outside of a few states.

Point taken.

 

[fantome profane]

Indications are that recently, they are in fact bonking less and they are more responsible.

I was not arguing that they are boinking more, that was merely my interpretation of @Twilight Hue's argument.

 

[Twilight Hue]

except that you are wrong, boinking amongst teenagers is actually less prevalent than in the past.

I doubt it.

 

[Pogo]

If I'd had to read at my grade level I'd have been
very ill served by the school system.

It's a conspiracy to keep those Asians down. It's not fair that they get valedictorian all the time.
My academically struggling son would test +4 years in English and -4 in math. but he was "normal".
The other one was just bored getting his A's, and don't even get me going about my half Vietnamese nephew now niece.

 

[Pogo]

I just find it ironic that suddenly, book banning is all on the news and so many people don't know the history of it.

Is that the banners or the people elevating it to news that you find Ironic.
I have a new name for you. Kathryn E. Newman.

It seems to fit your nonchalance relative to most any discussion.

 

[Pogo]

K12 is ages 17-18?

Typically and for statistical purposes most data goes to 19 for teenagers who are considered the HS cohort, obviously, it can sometimes make a difference.

 

[Pogo]

I was not arguing that they are boinking more, that was merely my interpretation of @Twilight Hue's argument.

And I was supplying information that was intended as informative and contrary to @Twilight Hue's assertion as you suspected.
Sorry, I was just reiterating what I had already explained to him.

 

[Heyo]

I think he is saying that teens are boinking more now than they did in the 50's but the lower teen pregnancy is because they are being responsible. That the boinking is what he finds objectionable and wants to return to the oppression that he imagines existed in the 50's.

I don't know if this is true, and even if it is I think it is good that teens are being more responsible and we should encourage that.

And if @Twilight Hue objects to my characterization of his viewpoint, he can explain it for himself.

You're overanalysing it. The Problem @Twilight Hue has, is that today's teenagers aren't boinking him.

 

[Tomef]

Typically and for statistical purposes most data goes to 19 for teenagers who are considered the HS cohort, obviously, it can sometimes make a difference.

The cult of stupidity is having a field day.

 

[Kathryn]

Is that the banners or the people elevating it to news that you find Ironic.
I have a new name for you. Kathryn E. Newman.
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It seems to fit your nonchalance relative to most any discussion.

Yeah, I am pretty nonchalant about most things on RF. It's not real life, you know. I am not nonchalant about real life by the way.

 

[Subduction Zone]

You are aware that girls have that special class in the school auditorium WELL before the 12th grade, right?

Do they really need to know about periods before then? Can't they just "hold it" until the 12th grade?

Problem solved. Ask me for more easy solutions to supposed conservative problems.

 

[McBell]

Teen pregnancy rates reached it's peek in 1958 with 96.3 per 1000.

What makes this so interesting is the population over the same period time: