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I'm curious: how many people are against birth control and/or pre-marital sex? I know that America has a large drive for abstinence until marriage and not discussing contraceptives but how many people actually agree with that system?

I personally am pro-both of them. Pre-marital sex is a personal choice - if someone decides to wait until marriage, good for them. If someone wants to have regular sex with their boyfriend, fine by me. And if someone wants to have sex with a lot of people, I say whatever you want.

I don't personally agree with having multiple sex partners, it's not something I could ever see myself doing. However, I do have sex with my boyfriend because I felt it was the right thing for ME to do. Does anyone feel that all pre-marital sex is bad?

I'm also for birth control, because it promotes safe sex and prevents the spread of STIs. Prevention of pregnancy is also positive in my view for people who don't want children right now. I'm on the Pill. I understand that Catholics are against all forms of birth control apart from the "rhythm method" which is natural. Is there any similar viewpoints in the guild, for religious or non-religious reasons?

I'm all for having safe, responsible sex with whoever you want, whenever you want. Myself personally, I've had sex with 3 different people. I lost my virginity when I was about 16 (11 days away from being 16, but legal age of consent in Canada is 14 so it was still legal) and I don't regret anything that I did then.

I went into it informed and ready, I'd been in the relationship for a year, I'd done my research I went out and bought birth control which I'd been on for about 5 months before I started having sex, my partner and I talked about it, talked about the possible concequences and how we would handle it. My partner knew that I'm pro-life and so would not have an abortion if I was to become pregnant etc.

The problem that I find today is that people aren't making informed choices. Whether you blame that on the system, or media promoting sex I don't really care, it's just a fact. People are just going out and doing it and not taking other things into account. For instance my sister has been having sex for probably the last 11 months without being on birth control. Even my mother has told her that she NEEDS to go to the doctor and get on birth control however she's just too lazy to make the appointment and walk there.

This has nothing to do with lack of promotion. Around where I live birth control and condoms are HIGHLY promoted and talked about, however people choose not to listen. I actually got in an arguement once with a girl who was older than me who thought that depo-provera was 100% effective.

People are just tuning things out, and I don't know how this can be averted. The possibility of male birth control looks awesome, but how likely is it that a 15-16 year old male is going to go to lengths to use that?

All that said I would be pissed if they decided to take the sex-ed out of the schools. Because SOME people (like myself) benefit from it. However they definitally need to expand and find a way to drill certain things into people's heads about birth control and its effectiveness and why if they're 16 or 17 they NEED to be taking it if they're having sex.

I have nothing aginst birth control and all that, in fact I think people should learn it and use it to help prevent pregnancy.

As for pre-martial sex? I think people should at least be prepared for what can happen and all the risk invold but it's their choice but I presonally like to be prepared incase if say I got pregnant and the guy leaves and all the emotional stuff. They should at least talk to their partners before hand though.

I want to wait until married or at least in a very committed relationship and talk to the guy about everything before we go that far but things don't always go as planned.

.... sweatdrop

...Yeah....I've never been married (I'm not really a widow; the screenname is a bit misleading)....and um.....I've lost track of how many partners I've had...

......I think....almost 30? sweatdrop

Never been pregnant though. I may have a lot of sex, but it's always as safe as possible.

I wouldn't have premarital sex for a few reasons... one is my religion, and another is that, I don't think I'll care that much in the near future to do anything anyway, because I'll have more important things to do and I wouldn't expect any teen relationship I'll have in the future to last that long. ^ ^ I only want to do it with a single person in my whole life, because that's an idea I'm comfortable with. I don't care what anyone else does, though.

I don't have anything against birth control. ^ ^

Again, that made me cringe.

Pre-marital sex is gooey sticky and disgusting, but people enjoy it and I go along to keep them happy.

It's fine as long as you have a lot of protection.

I have personle beleifes about sex Seth. I don't see safe sex as just fine and dandy. I see safe sex as responcible, but i don't always agree with the sex part.