Wait until your 18 for godness sake

When you can take care of any children that you may have & be able to vote in elections effecting that sort of thing, then have sex.

As I said, I lost my virginity (or as I prefer to put it, had my virginity cured) at age 16, and I’ve never regretted it for a second.

I lost my virginity about a month after my 13th birthday. The guy was 14, almost 15 and it was his first time too. I’m 16 now and haven’t regretted it yet- maybe I will when it’s time for me to get married or something, but I doubt it. I believe that I was ready for it. My mother was aware that I was having sex.
As for the risk of pregnancy, disease etc… if you’re going to be ignorant about the risks, then you’re definately not ready for it. Not everyone under the age of 18 is irresponsible.

just my two (useless) cents.

I’m going to get hell for this one . . .

I think that people should be able to do whatever they want (as long as they aren’t hurting anyone else) when they feel they are ready. I am not condoning 11 and 12 year olds to go out and “do it”, but I think that if you start telling people they “can’t do this” or “can’t do that”, it sorta becomes like a forbidden fruit issue . . .

In particular, I work with a lot of underage people who get themselves into trouble sometimes, because they aren’t allowed to drink. They don’t have this sort of exposure until they get out of the house and out on their own, and it hits them like a ton of bricks. . .

Just my $0.02

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Finagle
Not to be snide, but isn’t this sort of an ironic rant from someone who faces six weeks of abstinence with trepidation?

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Hey I think I have weaseled him out of it anyways… I think I plead pre-wedding jitters… We broke our 6 weeks fast 4 days into it. We are going to tone it down but I got upset last night and needed some luvin’. There were tears all over the place. I didn’t know I would be this nervous before the wedding…-sigh-

Wait a second!

Some of you had the chance before you were 18? Having reached the milestone recently, and not even coming close to beginning to have the opportunity to sort of even think about maybe finding somebody who would be willing to try, I say thank your lucky stars and wait 'til you’re married! You’ll steal beat me, don’t worry… ::sniff::

Hmph…

Waited until 18. I didn’t really think that much about it at the time. I then proceded to spend the next two years with that person. Actually, I truly belived that I would spend the rest of my life with that person. Of course, we broke up (last week). Due to – get this – her uncertanty that I was “the one”. No other complaints. I was, and still am, understandably (I hope) upset.

Anyway, with regards to waiting: I wish I had waited a lot longer. Although the sex in the relationship was not that great it probably prolonged something that would have ended sooner. Think of that before you give anything up.

-niggle

I think it is useful to turn the question around: Why NOT wait until you are 18? There are signifigant risks involved–sex to young is something many people seem to regret–and I don’t see any real benefit that can’t be achieved through snuggling, fondling, finger fucking, whatever. It is a simple risk/gain analysis–waiting a few years is not going to cripple anyone’s emotional or spiritual growth, but NOT waiting has been known to.

I also have noticed that it is the people that got laid regularly in high school that are incapable of being celibate as adults. Because they never had to go with out sex for any lengh of time in thier youth, they don’t believe they can. We all know people like this–they waste enourmous amounts of resources, money, and time, and end up getting into relationships with people they don’t even like because they think there is ssomething abnormal about sleeping by yourself for a month.