Encourage people to wait until marriage because a high body count is very bad for mental health.
Anti abortion conservatives and pro mental health liberals can unite on the following belief: Premarital sex is bad and should be strongly discouraged just like smoking!
That idea is mostly used to try to control and subjugate women.
That's bullshit, and no virgins have considerably more boundaries than sluts
So the relation between sex and negative mental health is more related to people doing risky behaviors have mental health issues. Not the sexual partners specifically.
But to pretend like teenagers aren't going to have sex is just silly.
I can kind of agree that they shouldn't have tons of sexual partners. But that is a far cry from no premarital sex.
Women who are empowered, who have experience dating and know how they should be treated are much less likely to put up with shit from their husband. Men wanted their women to be virgins so they would be able to control them more easily.
That's strange. A bunch of people that I met lost their virginity before marraige and they regretted it long term (including 1 democrat woman I met).
Sex changes your brain.
If the school system discourages sex like they did to tobacco citing mental health, then a lot of teens will break the rules; but most won't because they tend to listen to authority at least to some extent (like if they never told us to not smoke in school, then the smoking rate would be way higher than it is now).
I would assume the more sexual partners, the worse it is for your mental health.
My, "High body count is bad for your mental health" argument is for both genders. It's what should be promoted for all.
I'm sure you also know lots of people who lost their virginity before marriage and don't regret it. And even if they did regret it, that isn't evidence it causes poor mental health.
Sex changes your brain.no it doesn't.
lol I don't know where you went to school, but smoking was still super common when I was in high school. These days they just switched to other things like vaping. I also knew a bunch of people who used chewing tobacco for some reason. It was disgusting.
The point of celibacy before marriage is to increase a man's power over his wife.
These kind of outdated rules are ridiculous. If you personally want to abide by them, go for it. But we as a society should absolutely not be pushing them.
What % of those that wait regret it vs those that don't?
Why else would they regret it?
I got addicted to porn (less intense than sex). It changed my brain and I regret getting addicted. I hope others don't make the same mistakes I did.
This would be way more common if the school system didn't tell people to never start.
The point of celibacy before marriage is to increase a man's power over his wife.This is probably not true if both people wait.
Look at what happens to loose women. The get in abusive relationships, have a hard time pair bonding etc.
there were way more abusive relationships before. You just didn't hear about them because the woman wasn't allowed to talk about it or leave them. They just had to suffer in silence. Now women are actually allowed to leave abusive jerks and talk about their experiences. So you hear about it far more
This would be believable accept the fact that in modern times women who marry young experience less abuse than ones in unstable lifestyles
What if said rhetoric is backed up with evidence.
