Photographer : Al Greer
Well it seems to me that we're all having sex. And as much as i like sex, what i do hate about doing the deed, is ignorance. Ignorance from 12 year olds to 30 year olds. Ignorance is everywhere... and as the legal term says, ignorance is no excuse.
Now i live at a residential college in Melbourne, and there is a lot of sex going on... but over the last year, and these are only the reported cases, there has been one unwanted pregnancy, a hell of a lot of lack of condom wearing, no where near enough people on the pill and about twenty billion sti's.
So i beg the question of why? Why oh why do we have so many ignorant about sex. My personal answer would be that my parents never gave me the sex talk, i think they assumed i knew from school. But god damnit school gave me nothing but a 50 year old nurse giving me a lecture for one hour on abstinence when i was in grade six. Now that's a slight exaggeration... but truth be told i never knew about the ins and outs of sti's and the pill...all i knew about was where babies came from and the menstural cycle. But frankly, that's not good enough...
In today's society we have more people talking about sex, which is true... but it's happening at a younger age, for whatever reason, blame it on the media, blame it on parents, blame it on the government... it's not really the point. One needs to ask themselves not why kids are having sex, but what they know about sex. Because realistically if i were 12, i wouldn't want to be having sex if i knew ALL the risk factors and all the stuff i had to do to end up only being 98.7% safe, it is frightening stuff...
It looks like today, if you want information, you have to find it yourself. So please, if you're ignorant, go to the doctor, go to a friend who is knowledgable, look online, read some books, they are generally very helpful, talk to them about safe sex, and ask the questions that need to be asked so that you don't end up with various infections or pregnancies...
My five minute rant spurred on by reading cosmopolitan is over now... enjoy your sex.... safely
