Sex proofing Grade 6 girls
This fall, Newfoundland and Labrador will begin vaccinating all girls in Grade 6 to protect against a virus that causes cervical cancer. HPV (Human Papilloma Virus) infects half of all sexually active women in North America - the more partners, the greater the infection rate. The more partners, the more likely you are to go through the trials of cancer, abortions, and STDs.
Should we not teach sexual restraint instead? Tell girls, early, about male sexual pressure and give them support? Give young girls a chance to say no; to maintain their sexual integrity, and to not be used by forgettable, regrettable, males?
There should also be a class for boys. If they don’t know respect, they should know date rape laws.
But why should young girls have the bar lowered in terms of behavior? Should we not, instead, have the bar raised and expect them to make the right choices? Right now, around many jurisdictions anyway, we are giving young girls the opposite message - that they will be promiscuous; that they will make the wrong choices and that they will get disease.
Should there not, as well, be a cost or a consequence to promiscuity? Should they be shown abortion videos too? Why not?
Human beings are motivated by the path of least resistance and to a feel-good “party” mentality - especially in this culture. People do not drink and drive and smoke today as much because of awareness of consequence. It is the downside that deters, that creates restraint from impulse actions and bad choices.
The fact is that there is no “get out of jail free card” when it comes to promiscuity. According to the female sex researchers with whom I have spoken, women are not like men; every time a girl has sex with someone who doesn’t care or who is using her, a little bit of her soul dies.
Men, young men especially, must learn consequences too.
Unfortunately, women and young girls have a bigger cross to bear and are the ones who suffer most.
August 9th, 2007 at 5:29 am
Your show yesterday in regards to Sex proofing grade 6 girls was excellent. We as a society are such wimps for not standing up against sexual promiscuity. Why is it that we are so afraid to tell people save it for marriage? This whole thing about “Don’t tell me what to do” is foolish.
Everywhere you look it’s all about sex. TV shows are filled with everybody fooling around. It’s a shame that they don’t show the affects of teenage pregnancy. Here is a little bit about my life. My mother got pregnant when she was 16 years old. This loser dead beat left us when I was 4 years old on mothers’ day. I didn’t see him again until 3 days before I got married. 18 years my mother was stuck raising 2 boys. We grew up on welfare with no support. There was a custody battle because my “Father” wanted to get back at my mother by taking us away. He lost in court and was told that he had to pay child support. He was told that he had to pay 10.00 a month for each boy for child support. That’s right! Ten Dollars a month for each child, and he didn’t even pay that.
I am sick of seeing teenage girls who are pregnant. Do they not realize what the effects are? Its not easy raising kids, especially when you’re one yourself. Don’t think for 1 minute that the guy loves you. Don’t think for 1 minute that you are going to live happily ever after. Growing up on welfare is a tough life.
Who do I blame 95 percent of the time for teenage pregnancy? Boys!!! I was a teenage boy. I know what its like. Boys pressure girls into sex. Boys and girls are so different in regards to sex. Early teenage boys are raging in sexual hormones and girls are not in regards to that. They don’t have that over charge out of whack sex drive.
I have been a youth pastor for almost 9 years dealing with kids from the age of 12 – 30. I have dealt so much with young people, and the subject of sex is a big one. I have held classes on the subject of abstinence. Its called “Worth the Wait”. I teach young people about sexual peer pressure, STDs, safe sex, but most importantly saving your self for marriage, also known as Abstinence.
We need to put a stop on teenage pregnancy and a needle preventing a STD is not going to do it. What are the answers? Here are some suggestions. Take sex out of the media. Sex sells and allot of people are buying.
August 9th, 2007 at 6:00 am
This vaccination only protects against a particular strain of HPV it does not take into account the others, and many other STIs, let alone pregnancies, AIDS, etc. This being said, vaccinating our girls with the proper education, does not give them the ‘go ahead’ to be “promiscuous’, what it does it exactly what it is intended to do…protect against a strain of HPV that causes cervical cancer.
Of course we should be teaching our children and teenagers restraint, of course they should be educated on all of the consequences of having unsafe sex…but should girls be treated as sexless victims and boys as sex-crazed aggressors? Big fat NO. The old myth that boys are more sexually driven then girls is just that, a myth, that has been used only the last couple centuries to suppress female sexuality. In fact, centuries ago, women were considered the more sexual of the two.
Unfortunately as women and girls we are susceptible to harsher penalties when we choose to be sexually active, in the forms of unplanned pregnancies, STIs that hinder our reproductive systems, cervical cancer, etc. This being said, lets give our girls the protection they need, and not try to punish them for their deemed ‘promiscuities’.
This argument reminds me decades old arguments re: abortion rights, birth control access, etc. etc.
August 10th, 2007 at 9:00 am
Are we kidding here? Would you rather your daughter/sister not be vaccinated, stay away from sex until she’s married only to sleep with her new husband- and contract HPV from him? How will you square that with yourslef when she doesn’t get checked, and possibly dies of cervical cancer.
Yes, there is something to be said to education and helping children follow the right path, but if we parallel vaccinations with the disregard for well-being and sexual promiscuity then we aren’t giving our offspring the respect for their own decision making process that they will develop.
Helping to head-off not only cancer, but any disease with a vaccination is A-OK by me.
August 17th, 2007 at 6:49 am
Everyone should be researching the HPV vaccine that has been forced on girls in the U.S. for the last two years, turns out that numerous girls have died and many have brain disorders from it as a result.The big picture is the drug companies and there quest for huge profits with the governments help by so called “spin” of terror and fear of contracting some “disease” so the convient solution is vaccination that is laced with mercury that is proven to cause many brain dissorders not to mention anything else they decide to include that you are never aware of.
Case in point: my wife’s relative recently had their child’s two-year vaccination and the next day the baby was having seizures and fevers and was in critical condition for weeks. Now they have the baby on more drugs and will not know the result of the brain damage for years to come. They asked the doctors if it could be from the vaccine and they were all saying definitely “no” but when you research the net the horror stories unfold… I think it’s sick that the government, “knowing” what side effects these vaccines have, are trying to get people to take something they don’t need so they can feed the drug company stock holders our hard earned tax dollars because its a “free shot”… the HPV program will cost millions to us when the millions could be spent on alot more needy Canadians. How much research did FDA do on this… obviously nothing or they wouldn’t alow it because even one death from a vaccine is too much no matter what they say.
Also our dog almost died from her first round of “shots” too and now has vet papers that say she is not to be vaccinated… hmm?
Until people “wake” up and realize we dont need the government running our lives and keeping us “safe,” we are heading down a path where they have total control of our lives… big brother is here and his name is Stephen Harper.