Sunday, August 19, 2012

Abstinence: What does it really mean anyway?

Hello All! Thanks for stopping by and welcome to my first post! As I said in my introduction, the intent of this blog is to inform everyone about how to be more conscientious and make smart decisions when it comes to being sexually active.

With that being said, the most important message I can convey to my readers is......

ABSTINENCE!

So what exactly is abstinence? Dictionary.com defines abstinence a couple different ways:
ab·sti·nence  [ab-stuh-nuhns]  noun :
1. Forbearance from any indulgence of appetite, especially from the use of alcoholic beverages: total abstinence.

2. Any self-restraint, self-denial, or forbearance.
3. Economics- the conserving of current income in order to build up capital or savings.
4. The state of being without a drug, as alcohol or heroin, on which one is dependent.

...And now the definition your eight grade PE/Sex Ed teacher taught you:

Abstinence - Refraining from any and all forms of sexual activity.

Simple!

He or she probably added the point of being abstinent was to prevent unwanted pregnancies as well as sexually transmitted diseases. This would also be true. But what a lot of those PE teachers failed to acknowledge, was the fact that ORAL sex needed to be refrained from also because it was a form of (wait for it)....SEX!

Many people young and old fail to realize that vaginal penetration is not the only form of sexual intercourse. Middle school instructors also never, ever spoke of anal intercourse either, because kids don't do that - at least that's what the facade is.

The bottom line is this: The only way to keep yourself 100% free of contracting any type of sexually transmitted infection, disease, or becoming pregnant is to keep your private parts in your pants, and your hands to yourself.


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