That’s Right Nate

As regular followers of my blog know, teen issues are very important to me. It isn’t just that I have a daughter who is about to enter her own teenage years, but also because as the owner of my own self-storage business I’m something of a role model for teens. That’s why I’ve made my opinion on sex education very clear. I was in high school in the mid-80s and college in the late 80s. This was a time when girls simply didn’t have sex until marriage. Sure some guys would tell big stories, but I can tell you from personal experience that pretty much my entire high school and college classes were made up of virgins.

Of course nowadays teenagers are lucky and they have abstinence only education to help them make the right choice. During the Bush administration, the amount of money the federal government spent on abstinence only education went from $73,000,000 to $204,000,000 per year despite 17 states opting out of the program. That seems like an awful lot of money to me. I think if you gave me 40 minutes in a room full of high school girls I could have them swear off sex until they’re 30, but I guess in the schools people expect to be overpaid.

The proof that I mentioned in the headline involves the virginity pledge that is the ultimate goal of many abstinence only programs. This is a pledge to remain a virgin until death or marriage. My daughter has taken this pledge whether she realizes it or not. Anyway, she’s pretty overweight at 5’7″ and 125 pounds so I don’t think it’ll be an issue. While a recent study by Harvard researcher Janet Rosenbaum found that students who took the virginity pledge were just as likely to have sex as those who didn’t and far less likely to use protection, the study found that they had 0.1 percent less sexual partners. It is clear that at least as far as monogamy goes, the lessons are getting through. Next, we need to move on and attack that whole having sex thing.

It’s true that at times in my youth I wish that I had grown up in a more sexually liberated time, but the 80s and 90s were a much safer time to grow up and I don’t know that I’d ever trade that for the diseases and risk of pregnancy they have today. It’s definitely enough to make me glad that my daughter isn’t pretty.

It is a new day for the Republican party.  Gone are those boring fuddy duddy family values days.  Our party has moved on and it is long overdue.  Remember, Pete Sessions?  He was once famous for being the boring old guy who complained about Janet Jackson’s halftime show.   Now he’s having fundraisers in strip clubs.

We’re definitely the party that parties.  Sure, we’ve had our share of scandals involving sex this year from Larry Craig to Vito Fosella to Richard Curtis, but you only go around once so you might as well make it count.

The newest Republican to show us he knows how to party like a rock star is John McCain who tried to enter his wife Cindy in the Miss Buffalo Chip contest at Sturgis.    The Miss Buffalo Chip contest is a nightly topless beauty contest that occassionally goes bottomless too.  I think she could have done it too.  Yes sir, it is a new day for the GOP.

I admit it.  I was a strong believer for many years that the only thing we needed to prevent teen pregnancy was to switch from sex education to abstinence only education.  Unfortunately, as my vision is becoming more and more of a reality we’re seeing mixed results.

I still believe that abstinence is the answer and abstinence only should be taught in schools.  However, I think there are other things we can do to help reduce teen pregnancy.

1. Establish a private fund to give partial college scholarships to students who have not had children.

2. Increased funding to churches to provide abstinence education.

3. Passing concealed carry laws to make it harder for teenaged boys to know if their girlfriend’s father is armed.

4. A universal curfew for all teens of 9:00

5. Fines for teens caught engaging on sexual behavior

6. Extending the Bush tax cuts to allow businesses to hire more teenagers

7. Auditing the abstinence education programs of schools with a high rate of teen pregnancy to make sure that they are teaching what they should

None of these steps alone will do much, but together this 7 point plan will help to make sure that this epidemic will end.

One out of every four teenage girls has an STD.  For shame.  This is directly attributable to sex education and to liberalism.  Things were far different not that long ago.

When I was a teenager in the 1980s girls simply didn’t have sex.  It was a much purer time.  Sure us guys tried, but we never got anywhere because the girls knew they had to preserve their virtue.  Throughout college and high school there were plenty of parties, but if you were lucky you got a peck on the cheek not intercourse.  Some guys used to tell stories about all the sex they had, but it was pretty obvious they were lying.  Especially when their dates had let me know themselves that they were saving themselves for marriage and nothing could change their mind.

When you look at the way teenage girls dress nowadays I’m not surprised.  Oh how I long for those days when big hair and shoulder pads were more important than showing everything you had.

Girls, its up to you to turn this trend around.  Guys can’t control themselves and sex isn’t as big a deal for girls anyway.  Just say no and it’ll make your wedding night that much more special.  Remember, there is no reason to buy a cow when you get milk for free.