Scared chaste. Or more succinctly, wait to do it, so-called abstinence programs preach.
Some abstinence pacts are allegedly being made between fathers and their teenage daughters. A ring is worn by the girls to symbolize the pact. Now, if the pact only occurs between fathers and daughters, then a good question to ask is this: Why aren’t similar pacts being made between mothers and sons concerning the sons’ maintenance of their virginity? You guessed it: It’s that atrocious double standard again. People are still not quite as worried about the virginity and sex lives of their teenage sons. After all, boys can’t get pregnant. Furthermore, people still feel that a man’s “manliness” is still measured by his sexual exploits.
However, it’s not just manly braggadocio that has led to the double standard. It’s important to people to control the sexual lives of women rather than men’s sex lives. Nowadays, paternity can be verified through DNA, but it appears that there is still an interest in controlling women’s sex lives, which is rooted in materialism. This materialism is what causes men to remain adamant in their contention that they should not be responsible for raising other men’s children since they do not want other men’s children inheriting their wealth. This attitude has got to be a Republican attitude.
Moreover, it looks like this whole abstinence thing is a product of our current Republican administration; in an Associated Press article that appeared in the Bakersfield Californian, the Bush administration hastily warned against condemning the abstinence program as being non-effective, especially now that it does appear to be non-effective. Strangely though, the article states that the first abstinence programs emerged during the Clinton administration, which was also around the same time that welfare in the U.S. changed forever. (Oh, well, Clinton wasn’t much of a Democratic president; he couldn’t get his universal health insurance plan to fly, after all. Clinton appeared to be a puppet for a conservative Congress).
Nevertheless, the Californian article pointed out the fact that recent studies have indicated that students who have completed “abstinence-until-marriage” classes had just as many sexual experiences as those who did not go to the abstinence classes. The abstinence attendees even started engaging in sexual activity at about the age as non-attendees, which is, according to the Californian article, 14.
Needless to say, there is something distinctly missing in these “abstinence” programs. Much like the so-called “Scared Straight” programs of decades ago, apparently these so-called “Scared Chaste” programs aren’t much better. Some say the programs don’t go very far beyond merely saying premarital sex is a no-no. Observers have noted that countries that don’t offer students access to abstinence programs have a much lower incidence of unwanted pregnancies among young women.
If the U.S. wants to reduce the incidence of unwanted pregnancies among young women, it should not concentrate on abstinence programs, rather it should do away with poverty. Equally distribute the wealth in this oligarchic country of ours, do away with welfare and mediocre jobs, and insure higher education for everyone and this country won’t have a poverty problem; doing away with the poverty problem will take the edge off the incidence of unplanned propagation.
Some countries ought to make abstinence pacts with many of their own people until certain social and economic problems such as poverty are done away with. This necessitates that third-world countries must be done away with. However, the only way of getting rid of poverty in third-world countries is to first get rid of rich people.
If there are no poor people to exploit, then there will be no rich people. Deprive rich people of their exploitation “rights,” then the country will have no more poverty. However, many third-world countries are Catholic, and Catholics don’t believe in contraception. Equally distribute the wealth of rich people after publicly executing them, and then educate third-world people that contraception is not evil and against God.