Sex has been around since Adam and Eve (that's if YOU believe in them anyways). It's readily available in magazines, the internet and the most famous form of advertisement - word-of-mouth. However, some things good or bad just can't exsist without an adverse effect. That's why it is lamented that we should learn to abstain until a responsible relationship such as a marriage.

What about those people who just cannot control their compulsive desire to have sex? I see mental torture in their future! I do believe that it is the right thing to abstain - but then again it's just my opinion. I have witnessed alot of friends and aquaintances who chose to indulge in sex rather than to abstain. It's really sad seeing a young girl trying to finish school and she has to worry about another child - when she herself is a child. Then to look at a sixteen year old boy wishing that child wasn't his. It's all sad to think about but these things do happen. The simple yet undone solution? Abstain .

Also, look at all the sexually transmitted diseases, most of which we can pin to those who refrained to abstain. It might feel good, but what is pleasure to a lifetime of misery? For those of us who are religious and know that it is clearly printed in several passages in the Bible that people should abstain, should advise people to do so. Remember don't preach it, people become wary when they hear the Lord's name for some odd reason (something which is far beyound my comprehension). But let's put it like this for the non-believers: Please try not to have sex until marriage, I think it's a part of some kind of devine plan or something.

For those people who think that abstaining might burn a hole in their brain please try to be careful. Your life and someone else's might be at stake especially if you don't know if you might have a sexually transmitted disease. The best way is to get you and your partner tested - notice that's partner without the "s" at the end. However, if your a Columbus and which to explore your sexuality be cautious that you sleep with the right people and again get tested. In addition, use condoms.

Prevetion is really better than cure. So, before you need a cure for some sexually tansmitted disease just try to prevent it. And of course let me drill it in your heads - Abstain