Some facts you need to know regarding pre-marital sex, excerpts from presentation by Gary and Joy Lundberg at BYU Education Week August 20, 2009:
• Sexually active people face odds four times higher for contracting a sexually transmitted disease than for getting pregnant. (Condoms may reduce the risk but do not stop it.)
• Three million teenagers contract STDs annually. (Finding True Love, Pro-life.com)
• As many as 43 million Americans may have acquired sexually transmitted viral infections, such as HIV (Neal A. Maxwell, New Era June 1992, p. 4)
• Oral sex is rampant in Jr high and high school age children.
“Although there are only limited national data about how often adolescents engage in oral sex, some data suggest that many adolescents who engage in oral sex do not consider it to be sex; therefore they may use oral sex as an option to experience sex while still, in their minds, remaining abstinent. Moreover, many consider oral sex to be a safe or no risk sexual practice. . . . several co-factors can increase the risk of HIV transmission through oral sex, including: oral ulcers, bleeding gums, genital sores, and the presence of other STDs.” (Center for Disease Control)
• Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection. Approximately 20 million Americans are currently infected with HPV, and another 6.2 million people become newly infected each year. At least 50% of sexually active men and women acquire genital HPV infection at some point in their lives. (Center for Disease Control)
• HPV infection is a cause of nearly all cases of cervical cancer.
• Birth control pills do not protect against STDs
The facts: pre-marital sex and marriage.
• Couples who engage in sex before marriage are more likely to break up than couples who save sex for marriage.
• Cohabiting unions are much less stable than [unions] that begin as marriages.
• Those who engage in sex before marriage are more likely to commit adultery than those who had no premarital sexual experience.
( Journal of Marriage and the Family Vol. 53, 1991, pp 913-927 and Christianity Today Marriage and Divorce Survey Report, July 1992)
August 20th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Thank you so much for that lesson today! As much as we talk with our 14 yr old twins (boy/girl) about this, we need new material! My son brought home a disclosure today from his 9th grade health class. I was thrilled that my son had already read a little about what they would be discussing (STDs, abstinence, etc.) so that now they will be ready for our FHE discussion I am planning for Monday! Woohoo!
February 5th, 2011 at 7:41 am
While we do not want (even if it were possible) our children to be totally ignorant of the world, to the extent of naivete, we determined to homeschool them at least until college. Now, with the introduction of online education, which is rapidly expanding, they can continue to have some insulation from the immorality that is rife on the campuses, even of “Christian” colleges.