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abstinence
Sunday, March 26, 2006

Abstinence

The Sunday Times featured a really interesting article today. I must say, when I saw the front page, my curiousity increased immensely...'Secret Lives of Singapore teens'

Hmm..what could singapore teens be up to that's worthy of front page exposure? Then again, with the tammy incident and smokers so young you'd think they're still playing with little Tike..

So, I flipped the pages and read in silence for a few seconds before Qin asked..

Qin: Why are you stoning? Aren't you supposed to be reading the article?

Me: Well, I am..I'm just MORTIFIED! Let me pulled myself back..

Apparently, out of the 20 teens they interviewed, their average age of which they first had ...you know..intercourse is 15.5!! And that is just...horrific! Not only that..they are, extremely I must say for teens, sexually active, seeing that they have sex at least once a freakin' week! They do not insist on safety precautions(at least 4 of them do..not all is lost) AND 13 of them said they would do it with someone whom they are not in a relationship with!!

What have become of Singapore TEENS!!??!! I am absolutely speechless.. Well, actually I'm not. I have a lot to say about such an important issue being treated so casually be young people. The future of Singapore is at stake! Where have our moral values gone to??!! With the wind? Down the drain? Eaten by our greed and inability to control ourselves?

Yes, the 20 who were interviewed may be the minority and I should not kick such a big fuss out of this..But I believe if we do not address this pressing matter at hand, more and more teens will get influence and think that it is perfectly alright to have pre-marital sex! In time to come, youth may portray virginity to be something insignificant, comparable to the appendix, and not worth keeping for their soulmate-to-be. Parents might even allow it or worse, think likewise! What chaos it would create!

Linking the cause of this to the influence of the western culture and greater exposure to sex, pornograhy and all, is really just an excuse to why all this is happening. I strongly believe that it boils down to the belief and discipline of each individual. Of course, open talks with parents are important and certainly would help in showing teens that ABSTINENCE is not uncool.

Granted, teens being at the expectedly overcharged hormonal stage of their lives would be curious and just dying to figure and find out for themselves what sex is like. But seriously! It is such a lousy excuse! Not even reasonable!

Having pre-marital sex is like eating a strange but gorgeous-looking forbidden unripe fruit. Sure, you'd know how the fruit taste like when you take the first bite and you can show off and tell people that you've actually touched and savoured it. But note that it's not ripe and therefore it is not at its best. Now, for people who have waited for the fruit to ripen before they even touch it, the fruit would taste just heavenly and sweet. And they can then laugh at those who have not been patient enough to wait. Because there is only that one time when they can truly know what it is to devour the forbidden fruit, for the first time.

How ironic that the most educated generation is doing the worst.

I may sound naggy and preachy and like some sort of guai kia..but I seriously am against pre-marital sex. 100% against!! I'm just really dumbstruck that teens in singapore are becoming more and more nonchalant about their sexuality.

Being liberal is one thing. Respecting self is another. If one is liberal but allows another to throw away all respect of themselves...they are simply..silly!

To teens that are pressurized into doing it by their bf/gf or peers..always know that you are in control and nobody can tell you to do what you do not want to. If not, there's always the police.

Yes, I believe in abstinence..Abstinence from pre-marital sex, abstinence from drugs and smoking, abstinence from pornography..

For now, it's abstinence from food.

You see, we're taking height and weight this week..

11:16:00 PM