My View and Opinion on Underage Sex
Is the age of 16 the right age for sex to be legal? Many people have
their own views and beliefs and the issue is very indecisive, but is
there ever going to be an age that everyone agrees is appropriate?
This is what my speech is going to be about.
Many people have different opinions on what they think the legal age
to have sex should be. Every year more and more children are having
underage sex and this number is continuing to increase at a rapid
rate. In England, the law says it's legal and gives permission to
having sex from the age of 16 but each country has a different opinion
so the law changes around the world. It is easy to think that everyone
under the legal age is having sex, and a recent investigation revealed
that one in four women and nearly a third of men have sex before they
are 16 - the legal age of consent. A major survey shows that teenagers
who leave school early are less likely to practice safe sex and are
more likely to become pregnant.
I believe that no matter what age sex should be considered legal;
teenagers are still going to ignore it. Someone of any age will have
sex when they want to, whatever age. That's nature for you... Neither
situation is ideal, there is no ideal situation. Possibly a law should
not exist at all? I think more of an age-gap system would be better,
allowing anyone of any age to experiment and express any sexuality
they have with people their own age, yet protect them from the abuse
of older people. The age children start to become aware if sex is
gradually getting younger and younger. Sex education lessons are
starting in many primary school...
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...ack of contraception, causing
the country many more problems than the already have.
Religion can play a huge part in whether the age to consent to sex is
right or not. In the town of Lubbock in Texas, where a lot of people
take the bible literally, the church is powerful enough to ensure that
teenagers receive no education about sex, and defiantly none about
safe sex. Their teachers tell them that condoms don't work and that
sex brings diseases and that self-discipline is the only option. Could
this stop people having sex?
There are many reasons why people decide to have sex. Could be for
fun, for love, peer pressure or just because they think that it is the
thing to be doing, but is the legal age going to stop people having
sex? The answer is simply NO. Therefore I believe there should be no
age limit for sex.
Age of Consent by the Bronski Beats is a remarkable album that promoted a great message in the early 80s. The group members were Steve Bronski, Larry Steinbeck, and Jimmy Somerville. They met in 1983 and started doing live shows. In the following year, the group got signed by the London Recording. They released the Age of Consent on October 15, 1984 which attracted the public’s attraction. The Age of Consent is a phenomenal album that brought attention to the Gay rights issue in United Kingdom in the early 1980s.
The age-of-consent campaign came about during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which was designed to protect young innocent girls from vicious men who prey on the young (Stacy L. Mallicoat, pg. 280). Before the campaign the legal limit of consent was 10 and 12 in 1885. In most states they ended up raising the age limit in 1920 to 16 or 18. They tried training females for marriage, but the juvenile system punished girls and denied them the right to express themselves sexuality. This movement forced girls who had sex outside of marriage to get a gynecological exam to make sure they are not spreading any diseases around. A lot of the time when this movement was strongly enforced, if a woman went to a trial it really used their previous sexual encounters in front of the jury/judge which also played into victim-blaming. Using this approach allows guys to feel like they can get away with rape and other violence towards females since all they are going to do is blame the intercourse on the woman tempting the guy to have sex with her. This also lets the male have more sexual freedoms than women did. More likely if a female was caught having sex outside of marriage, they were sent to juvenile detention, which on average they spent about three times longer than their male counter-part did for the same
Warner, Jennifer. “Premarital Sex the Norm in America: Premarital Sex Research Shows by Age 44, 95% of Americans Have Had Ummarried Sex.” WebMD. 20 Dec. 2006. Web. 14 Sept. 2011. .
Morals are usually the standards by one which lives in, whether them being good or bad. However, how about when religion influences ones morals? Religion isn’t or it doesn’t work for everyone, and that’s okay. But, there are many people out there that religion influences their morals; and the most common reason for that is that religion was influenced into them and into their morals as a child. Iri...
The “talk” about sex has never been a topic many like to discuss with tweens or teens, but it has to be addressed sometime during their lifetimes. Sex is a natural experience that is used for reproduction and the building of an emotional connection. However, many teens engage in pre-marital sex and have no knowledge about protecting themselves. Sex education teaches about human sexuality and how abstinence should be practiced to prevent sexual transmitted diseases (STDs) and unplanned pregnancies. Yet, sex education classes are mostly for those in college. Sex education is not meant to encourage sex, but hopefully steer students into having safe sex or no sex at all. Becoming aware about the consequences of having sex among the tween and teen community needs to be established and understood. If parents have a hard time giving the “talk” about sex, then the subject should be discussed with a trained individual instead of being avoided. Without knowledge teens will explore things without caution. Sources indicate that the argument to allow sex education within public schools, such as middle or high schools, is whether the benefits of learning about sex at an early age will outweigh the risks of experiencing sex without advanced knowledge.
Prostitution, generally defined as the selling of sexual acts, is a controversial and ever-present topic of debate. In recent times, places such as the state of Nevada legalized prostitution. Other countries such as New Zealand, Austria, Belgium, Australia, Bangladesh, and much more decriminalized or fully legalized prostitution. The legalization of prostitution, or sex work, would mean the full legalization of buy and sell sexual acts between consensual and of age people. Prostitution should be legalized because it increases tax revenue, it improves the safety of Prostitutes, and improves the safety of the general population, while many people claim it will increase sex trafficking and.
Throughout Sex Work and the Law: A Critical Analysis of Four Policy Approaches to Adult Prostitution Frances Shaver discusses the need for change for women working as prostitutes. Shaver explains the ongoing problem surrounding prostitution in Canada and provides four possible ways to resolve the issue in her work. Three well thought out points Shaver writes about are the health benefits as well as personal safety for the women in the sex industry. She also touches base on the decriminalization of prostitution and the impacts it will have on nearby neighborhoods and the residents as well as a few other topics. Although Shaver discusses important areas, she does leave out some particular parts for concern such as the issues surrounding minors involved in the sex industry as well as the men and women who are involuntarily put into prostitution also known as human trafficking. While Shaver touches base on extremely well thought out points and provides a solution for dealing with Canada’s prostitution problem, she fails to elaborate on a few major issues that should be discussed as well when discussing the decriminalization of prostitution.
...young girls from sexually abused relationships. According to one study stated in Taking Sides (Issue 17), “seventy-four percent of women who had intercourse before age fourteen and sixty percent of women who had sex before fifteen report having had a forced sexual experience.“ Another hope is that with statutory rape laws, society will decrease the teen pregnancy rate and the number of young families who are fatherless.
The controversy of whether sex education should be taught in schools has been a lingering argument for years. Opposing sides are so firm on their position that they will not consider those whose opinions counter their own, making it difficult to come up with a solution. Those who are against the teaching of sex education in school feel that they should be the ones educating their children about sex and that sex should be abstained from until marriage. On the other hand, people who support sexual education programs believe their children will learn the importance of contraception, learn how to have sex through the teachings of a professional, and how they can help open up better relationships with their parents.
Prostitution should not be legalizing because it is one of the social immoral problems. This issue should be banned because it violates human rights, and the true equality of women. Prostitution, drug (including cocaine and cannabis), and pornography are headache problems within human society. Especially, prostitution against good human values. Most sociologists and philosophers confirm that when society is growing, people increasingly promote their good values. For instance, we are living in the modern time, where people act on high technology, smart devices. At this explosion of information technology, the power of thinking, the ability of the brain requires each individual to always improve their knowledge and ethics. However, prostitution
The viewpoints that are the most vehemently opposed to legalizing prostitution in the United States stem from religious ideals. Charles Clark, senior editor at the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, suggests that sex out of marriage is a large factor in the disapproval of prostitution from religious Americans (1993). The religious perspective offers something than many prostitution arguments lack. A series of guidelines and clear cut rules on the matter. Evelina Giobbe (as cited in Clark, 1993), director of Women Hurt in Systems of Prostitution, implies that most religious groups find that prostitution is immoral (1993). The idea that prostitution is immoral makes making policy on the matter easy. Those who prescribe to the religious way of thinking seem to suggest that prostitution should not be allowed and therefore criminalized. On the other hand there are arguments against prostitution that feel that it is immoral for other reasons.
Teenagers and young adults need to be taught that having sex is not just another fact of life and that it has a meaning, and it has consequences. Whether a young person decides to have sex or wait until marriage, parents or guardians need to respect their decisions and keep an open door policy so that they can feel safe to ask questions and make thought out, balanced, decisions.
Everyone regardless of background or culture has a specific set of beliefs or values. These beliefs and values can vary from being simply not liking to lie, to believing that homosexuality is a sin. Human beings can develop their particular set of beliefs and values through life experiences or even through reading a book. Almost every person has a moral code which they use to differentiate whether a specific problem is morally wrong or morally right. Sexual issues are some of the most debated of these problems. Some people fight tooth and nail over these issues because of what their specific religion has told them is right while others fight because they want the freedom to be able to express themselves as the sexual beings that we are. Culture ultimately determines how a person feels about a sexual issue, because regardless if a person forms their opinions on issues from the environment or books, culture is still enwrapped in these sources.
Teenagers need to be taught to practice abstinence. By learning this important lesson, youths will be less likely to contract sexually transmitted diseases, and they will be safe from unwanted pregnancies that could lead to abortions.
...re afraid of promiscuity”. Again, religious individuals were not given the tools to develop the kind of skills are part of being comfortable with their own sexuality. To express yourself is to get to know yourself. Moreover, here is when the key to innovation comes to aid the problem. Just by being willing to acknowledge the fact sex education, and communication helps the young generations to make better decisions is a step forward to progress.