Why do you think more teenagers don't practice abstinence?

curiousityWhy do you think more teenagers don't practice abstinence?
I don't think it's right to blame it soley on peer pressure - many teenagers never experience peer pressure to be honest. I never did. I decided to have sex before I was married (with my long term boyfriend) simply because I wanted to and waiting until marriage just isn't for me. Some teenagers want to feel as though they've 'achieved something' and feel proud they've lost it; usually at a young age. I have noticed however that alot of abstinence preaching Christians make teenagers who are having sex feel like outsiders; just because they choose something they don't agree with. There's barely anyone I know (who is a teenager) that is actually waiting until marriage.Why do you think more teenagers don't practice abstinence?
i'm a teen, and i'm gonna answer this question. it's probably because they're rebelling from their parents. usually if parent's are strict on their kid, their kid is gonna rebel. they're gonna want to do things that they know their parents don't want them doing such as drugs, alcohol, and sex.





also, it usually is the peer pressure from other kids. maybe their friends aren't virgins, and it's as if they feel obligated that they don't need to be a virgin either. and it is the hormones, they probably want to experience new things, you know explore their horizons and all.
I think some of it is peer pressure like others said from boyfriends or just plain friends.


But i also think kids nowadays have a lot more responsibility and HAVE to grow up earlier for some reason. I think that when they have to fend for themselves or/and there smaller siblings or some other reason they feel as if there are already adults and they feel like they can go out and do adult things like having sex. I think they feel like they can handle it because they already feel like adults and that's the reason they go out and have sex.


But this is my opinion.
Teens do not practice abstinence because they are hormonally curious about what sex is. Males have it easy, they masterbate and think intercourse must be like that only better. Which it isn't always. It is just Short.





Girls have it much more difficult.


What they do not know is that you aren't good at sex at first. Most girls who lost their viginity early do not have sex again for several years. Too disappointing.--even though they do not admit it.





I think I miss the days of 'heavy petting' when girls and guys learned to rouse each other without going straight to intercourse. It was a long long learning process and no one was in any hurry to take it to the next stage because BC wasn't a sure thing. And girls who got pregnant were well, gossiped about, got married in HS and maybe, maybe went back for their GED. Once you had a baby your life was over. We all knew it. We wanted more than that so we waited.
everyone is in such a rush to grow up (i wont lie including me) and that is the ';grown up'; thing to do, having sex is like a discovery that everyone hears so much about through the media and even through sex ed. at school, they make it seem so interesting people just want to do it and find out for themselvs
peer pressure (even got that from my friends)


curiousity


your boyfriend might leave you if you don't (no one wants to be alone but if i had one and he said that then i would say bye)


horomones (can drive you crazy)


just wanting to know how it feels and to be able to say ';I did it';
Because you can't fight human nature no matter how much fear of god you try to instill in them. The average Christian kid only waits about a year longer to lose his or her virginity than a non-Christian, so that says a lot for the efficacy of the abstinence-only worldview!
I think it's hormones. That's why instead of teaching abstinence, they should start at least teaching safety. That way, we would know that so many teen girls wouldn't be getting pregnant. If they do it, then at least let them do it safe, ya know?
idk, but i am a teen and am going into HS and there are kids in my grade that talk about sex they had the other night and stuff like that. maybe because of peer pressure. i practice abstinence and i want to get a purity ring for it to
peer pressure.


the pressure to be ';cool';


lots of things contribute to teens not practicing abstinence.


i wish more teens did though.


then i wouldnt feel so alone when it comes to that











-14 year old girl, who doesnt believe in pre marital sex!
horomones.


too much pressure from their boyfriends to have sex.


experimenting.


many reasons,


mostly because they have no respect for themselves.
the same reason they don't refrain from smoking, drinking, making noise and trouble, and disrespecting their elders
Because alot of teens are into that thing where they follow everyone and do things they think everyone else is doing
I dont know maybe we are humans and can get pretty hormonal and horny and stuff.
peer pressure.


I for one, practice abstinence.
preasure


horny


hormones


want to know how it feels
Because they're dumb.
peer pressure


tv


friends


there are a lot of reasons.
peer pressure from other teens