sammiealice's blog post - stubenville

i am at a total loss on this. i just know that it is about our children.

i have started this four times and deleted it. i really don't know what to say.

but, i guess the bottom line is this. some of our children see sex and sex partners as something to be taken. there is no understanding amoung friends that they must protect their friends when they are getting ready to damage themselves or others but do not realize it. people have feeling and privacy and everything does not have to be photographed, filmed, blogged or put on the internet.

the sex that is going on in high schools today is what was only found at adult swinger parties or private sex clubs 10 years ago. but the difference is that adults have rules of behavior and and high schools don't. adults don't take picture without consent and teenagers can not help themselves. and teenagers can not think 10 minutes ahead so they do see the consequences.

when i was a freshman at college, before my first party, the sophmores called us together and said to us
1) watch your drink
2) travel in pair or more and no one leave without the others.
3) boys want to get a feel if not sex.
4) don't get so drunk that you can not protect yourself or you will become the locomotive of a train--never saw one but saw a lot of girls dragged out of a party before they reached that point.

and you know, they are just children with raging hormones and little to no adult guidance.

maybe we should do away with all of the pc teaching and get down to basics with the teenagers.

1) you have sex with multiple partners, you are going to get an STD and die--period.

2) you drink to excess at a party, you will be sexually attacked or you will sexually attack someone. and you will either a victim or a and you will carry that with you for your entire life and possibly to prison.

3) if he or she can not say yes, the answer is no. and if the answer was yes earlier, it does not mean yes for the entire night.

4) friends protect friends----from getting harmed and from doing harm.