Kids who get “The Talk” from their parents typically abstain longer

With whorishness permeating throughout society for kids at younger and younger ages, how can you, Joe Concerned Parent, get your child to hold out from letting strangers do dirty things to them a bit longer? The answer is surprisingly simple, according to a new study: Give them the sex talk before it’s too late.

The sex talk is never easy. It’s not comfortable for anyone involved – parents are afraid of it, children are mortified by it – which is probably why the Talk so often comes after the fact. In the latest study on parent-child talks about sex and sexuality, researchers found that more than 40% of adolescents had had intercourse before talking to their parents about safe sex, birth control or sexually transmitted diseases.

That trend is troublesome, say experts, since teens who talk to their parents about sex are more likely to delay their first sexual encounter and to practice safe sex when they do become sexually active. And, ironically, despite their apparent dread, kids really want to learn about sex from their parents, according to study after study on the topic.

“The results didn’t surprise me,” says Dr. Mark Schuster, one of the authors of the new study, published in Pediatrics, and chief of general pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Boston. “But there’s something about having actual data that serves as a wakeup call to parents who are not talking to their kids about very important issues until later than we think would be best.”

I could see how a parent sitting down and talking to their kids about sex would get a kid on the right path. Mostly because I know if my mom had talked to me about sex right as the hormones really started going, I think my penis would have inverted for at least a half-decade. If you really want your kids to be equally informed and horrified, you could just show them a video of you and your significant other having sex. It can be softcore and I’m pretty sure it’d do the trick. Just to clarify though, it’s probably not a great idea to do that with other people’s kids. For some reason in our conservative society, that would be frowned upon. Prudes.

[Yahoo]

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