Sex in America

Sorry that I do not write more and I should. Over the past month, I have been hit with a  heartbreaking crisis over my talents. I feel inadequate. I cannot help but feel this way. Promise me you will never allow pseudo-intellectuals break your stride.

I am going post my Sex in America piece in my blog. I feel strongly about this piece and I worked very hard on it. Thank you very much.

Sex in America

By Jennifer Brigitte

Sex is a paramount topic within a person’s life.

If sex were to be banned in America, the consequences would be catastrophic. There would be absolute anarchy, jobs would be nonexistent, and we would breed sniveling, insane sexual deviants. As a nation, we would become so sexually frustrated that bestiality, pedophilia, and rape would be morally ethical through statute. Citizens would be breeding like rabbits, while our government slides back into Communist China. It would be the Prohibition of Alcohol all over again. The act of sex in itself would be subjected to the obscenities of our repressed America. The common folk would be no better than a sex-depraved maniac.

Of course, sex will never be banned in America, but that scenario is not entirely imaginary. Across the United States, conservative states have banned sexual education classes as part of their curriculum. Some states allow abstinence-only education. In 2007, during the Bush Administration, Wade Horn, former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services resigned. Horn was a supporter of abstinence-only education, encouraging students to practice celibacy until marriage. In its absence, educators discouraged students from learning the preventive role of contraception altogether.

Miami Dade College students were asked about their beliefs about sex and sex education classes. Many students answered that they had while a few admitted to still being celibate. Most of our students believe in having sex before marriage. Jean Paul St. Hubert said, “Why do you have to get married with a person and find out you are not compatible with him” His friend, Stephanie St. Come interjected with, “When you are with somebody, there’s chemistry. You can tell you are sexually compatible with somebody. You can be intimate with someone and not have sex.” When asked about sex education in schools, Stephanie St. Come also said, “Kids should know about sex. Sex is not bad but you have to be careful because they need to know about the consequences.” Felix Guzman included, “It [Sex] depends on the person. If they want it, they can. It doesn’t matter how early you teach it, they’re still going to do it.”

President Bush once said abstinence is, "the surest way, and the only completely effective way, to prevent unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted disease." This is the same man who once said, "Too many OB/GYN’s aren’t able to practice their love with women all across the country." Obviously, sex education is an imperative need. Abstinence-only education simply invites curiosity to those interested in sex. This probably ends up leading to unprotected sex regardless!

Many of our students agree that we must be ready for sex. Young students across America lack the maturity; therefore, they see sex as child’s play. Jean Paul Hubert, a young student from Haiti gave a retrospective look on America and sex. “A lot of girls get pregnant in America. I believe in protect sex before marriage. I went to Sunset High School and seven girls over there were already mothers. In Haiti, the kids who have a chance to go to school, we teach them the precautions of unprotected sex. I don’t know if I ever met a pregnant teenager in Haiti. Sex is lacking and there are too many teenage pregnancies in America. Girls have to juggle too much. Girls who want to become doctors and lawyers but get pregnant at eighteen are counterproductive.”

It is hard to stop this trend when Americans are infatuated with pop culture. In recent years, the glamorization of teenage pregnancies have been in forefront because our role models are pregnant teenagers. Even fashion-conscious stores such as Forever 21 recently unveiled its line of maternity clothes called Love21 Maternity, targeted at the trendy tween and teen expectant mothers. We can’t allow celebrities like Jamie Lynn Spears or Bristol Palin or movies like Juno and television shows like Secret Life of the American Teenager to influence our decisions. A big applause goes to shows like Glee who present the hardships of being a pregnant, unknowledgeable teenager. In the show, Quinn Farbray was raised in a conservative state and has been taught to uphold the virtues of chastity. As President of the Celibacy Club, she becomes pregnant. Farbray struggles throughout the show with losing her body, popularity, home, family, and reputation. Although it’s realistic, examples like Glee and Quinn Farbray aren’t enough to undo the depictions of glamorous teenage pregnancy. For harsh topics like these, we need to teach our own children. We cannot expect them to learn for themselves.

Without our parents’ advice or educators’ consent, underage youth can end up sliding off into the American wasteland. The harsh reality of underage sex is teenage pregnancy. This includes the possibility of living on welfare, working menial jobs, and suffering an intensely harsh life to support our offspring. Sex is a choice with consequences, but if you make your bed, you must lie in it.