Realism

The press today is all atwitter about a certain school board's decision to hand out birth control to middle school girls (between 11 - 13, for those of you from abroad).

Of course everyone's knee jerk reaction is "Don't do it, you are encouraging them to have sex!" and "it's a bad idea"

First...in 1985, when I was twelve, I knew TWO pregnant twelve year olds. What makes people think twenty some odd years on things are different? Just a guess, but I'd say there are way more twelve year olds having sex now than there were in 1985.

Second....most kids today, due to lots of factors (hormones in food, obesity, etc) are having periods earlier and earlier. Periods and hormones are not great for early youth. Taking birth control pills to regulate your cycle, or your hormones, in effect to stabilize one tiny part of all the changes a teenage girl goes through is indeed a good idea.

But all we think about is fucking. Typical.