Teenagers urge peers to abstain from sex
Keyanna Butts/Contributing Writer
Issue date: 3/11/07 Section: Cover
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"If you're a teenager in school, the baby would distract you while you're studying," the Northeast D.C. student writes. He said that since he's abstinent, it's easier for him to concentrate on his schoolwork and get good grades. If I had a child, I would struggle through school and might not graduate from high school," he says. "My life is care free. There are no disadvantages in being abstinent."
Tate and other members of Ultra Teen Choice, a local teen peer-counseling program, are taking a stand for abstinence. On its Web site, the group notes that 50 percent of teenaged girls in the District will get pregnant at least once, while no teenager abstaining from sex will get pregnant, contract HIV, or have any other negative consequences of sexual activity.
The teenagers will encourage their peers to wait until they are married to have sex during Ultra Teen Choice's second annual Abstinence Awareness Week.
"A lot of young people don't know that abstaining from sex is an option and that you can live without having sex until marriage and that it is a desirable choice," said Ade Ademisoye, a sophomore at Eastern Senior High School in Northeast D.C. and youth president of Ultra Teen Choice. ""This is a good way to get the message out there: that abstinence is important."
Ultra Teen Choice is the committee host for Abstinence Awareness Week, which will be held at various locations throughout the week.
The week's agenda will include question-and-answer sessions, skits, songs, dance routines and testimonies. Special guests include author and WAMU-FM radio personality Jonetta Rose Barras and local recording artist Mark Greene.
Co-founded in 2003 by Richard and Stacey Urban, Ultra Teen Choice provides programs and activities for middle and high school youth that promote healthy lifestyle behaviors and character-based decision making with an emphasis on abstaining from sex until marriage.
"We put a standard out to the kids, that they should be abstinent until they're married," Richard Urban explained. "It is directive and character based, so that is the expected standard that they have. We do not promote or demonstrate contraceptive use."
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linsey
posted 6/10/08 @ 2:49 PM EST
i think that all of this written here is very true all teens should abstain. .
i mean i didnt abstain and i made a huge mistake but now i realize what i did wrong and im here to tell all of you that sex is not the answer being as young as you all are. (Continued…)
Robert
posted 7/21/08 @ 9:41 PM EST
Its a sad day when your on the marriage bed, and you can't please your wife cause you don't know what to do, how to play and act. Waiting for sexual activity for a man may make you more focuses and aggressive, but it will lead to masturbation which can make you withdraw from life somewhat, and the other side of the coin is religious fanaticism and not touching yourself, which is a guarantee of prostate problems and ED when your older. (Continued…)
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