| Teens
Tell All About Abstinence |
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- I'm not having sex and I wouldn't want it any other way. I don't need sex to make my life complete - it's just fine without it.
-female, 17
- I decided not to have sex again until I get married or I'm with a girl I know I'm going to marry. I'm what you call a 'born-again virgin.'
-male 17
- Call me a traditionalist, but sex is something special. If a guy went around giving a rose to every girl and then to you, you wouldn't think much of it. But, if that guy had never given a rose to anyone before and then gives one to you, you feel special.
-female, 16
- To me there is only one way to be responsible - 100% virgin until marriage or until you are mature, responsible, and are in a monogamous relationship with somebody who is the same and you can trust.
-male, 14
- Sex is more than just a contact sport.
-female, 15
- Every time you have sex you give yourself away.
-female, 13
- My best friend just had sex with her boyfriend for the first time last night. My roommate was saying to me, 'Now I am the only one on V-Island (Virgin Island). Maybe I should get off of it.' My first reaction was no! I told her don't have sex until you're ready. And, more importantly, don't have sex just because you think everyone else is doing it.
-female, 19
- Staying a virgin until you're married means being blessed with the strength and endurance to share a gift given to you by God to someone you really love and plan to spend the rest of your life with.
-male, 19
- I really don't care what people say; right now, sex just isn't worth the risk.
-female, 17
- Being a virgin today means you haven't had sex. It doesn't mean that you can't be affectionate or are untouchable.
-female, 16
- To me being a virgin means you know what you are. Being a virgin doesn't mean you're saving yourself for that special partner. It means you're saving yourself for you.
-female, 17
- When you are a teen, you have enough to worry about as it is. Am I popular? What college am I going to? What should I wear? Could you imagine having to worry about that and then on top of it things like: Where can I find a good babysitter? How am I gonna buy diapers? Why does my baby keep crying? Or how do I get treatment for my herpes outbreaks? How did I get AIDS? So who would want to go through that when being a teen is hard enough?
-female, 16
- I think it's very sad that sex is no longer considered special and sacred. Sex is an act of love, not only an act of pleasure and, in my opinion, this subject shouldn't be taken so lightly.
-female, 15
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