http://www.ngejay.com/?p=2777 My personal weblog on finance, economics, current affairs, politics, entertainment, anything of interest. Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:29:17 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.ngejay.com/?p=2777&cpage=1#comment-1115 Medieval attitudes towards sex and sexuality, rather than tolerance of alternative lifestyles, undermine the social fabric : Sgpolitics.net Tue, 26 May 2009 19:18:36 +0000 http://www.ngejay.com/?p=2777#comment-1115 [...] Of course, we would all prefer youngsters to avoid pre-marital sex until marriage and remain faithful to a single partner. But the reality is that such issues cannot be avoided. In fact, there is growing acceptance that abstinence-only programmes are ineffective in reducing the number of teenage pregnancies and STIs, and this has prompted the Ministry of Education to change the way sex education programmes are being conducted in schools since 2007 (see here). [...] [...] Of course, we would all prefer youngsters to avoid pre-marital sex until marriage and remain faithful to a single partner. But the reality is that such issues cannot be avoided. In fact, there is growing acceptance that abstinence-only programmes are ineffective in reducing the number of teenage pregnancies and STIs, and this has prompted the Ministry of Education to change the way sex education programmes are being conducted in schools since 2007 (see here). [...]

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