I felt so sad reading the article. :( What happened to the value of one's virginity?
A lot of guys go 'if you love me, do it' but why can't people understand that loving someone isn't fulfilling another's wishes. saying no is loving someone too.
There's this really nice quote that came across. 'If you can't say no to your boyfriend/girlfriend, then your yes doesn't mean anything'. Really meant something. Saying no means you have that freedom to choose. Not being able to say no would just imply that you're under the influence of hormones or addiction to sex of some sort.
Anyway, yah. Increase in premarital sex really worries me. There was this whole chain of cause and effect thingos that I heard once. It goes like increase in premarital sex means increase in pregnancies outside wedlock. If one keeps the baby, then there would be increase in single motherhood. Increase in single motherhood would mean the child does not have the fatherly figure which may cause increase in homosexuality. If the mother gets married on a guilt-driven basis, there would be an increase in unstable marriages/broken families. Increase in broken families can cause increase in troubled children which leads to increase in crime rates. If one doesn't keep the baby, then there would be increase in abortions.
Mother Teresa once said that in this age, mothers can kill their own child so what's going to stop us from killing each other?
Anyway, so what is the cause of the increase in premarital sex?
Pornography.
There was this pedophile (need to look that up) who raped many children (or something like that) and was put on death row. Before he was executed, he insisted on an interview. And in that interview, he said that the only got that drive to commit all those crimes because of pornography. It was through watching pornography that he lost his self control to respect the human sexuality.
Yah I'm sorry for the rant but this is an issue that is very close to my heart. Sigh.
Then again, fornication is not new. :(
