Singapore youth scorn abstinence - How True? Andrew PK Yap

AndrewPKYap SG · 2007-01-30T20:27:06+00:00

Are you referring to the Beyond Social services help for young pregnant teens? sgFish: now Singapore hot topic in Bangkok after Thaksin and Temasek / Shin C...

AndrewPKYap SG

How true is this report anyway?

Singapore youth scorn abstinence

Singapore (dpa) - Youths in Singapore are fed up with campaigns promoting sexual abstinence, a published survey said Monday.

Among 16 sexuality topics, two-thirds of 1,383 secondary school students ranked "building healthy relationships with the opposite sex" as the top priority.

Commitment to abstinence from premarital sex ranked 12th, according to the findings in The Straits Times.

The survey showed that 81.9 per cent of students had not spoken to any adult about intimate issues, and 17.8 per cent said they perceive adults to be awkward in dealing with the subject of sex.

"The abstinence message could be harmful despite its good intentions because it doesn't reflect reality," Bernise Ang, founder of the Singapore International Youth Council, was quoted as saying.

A 15-year-old student said, "You hear it once, then when the next person tells you not to have premarital sex, you can practically repeat everything."

With the message clearly needing updating, the Health Promotion Board is using peer influence to promote a healthy lifestyle, including refraining from promiscuous sex.

bila_prem SG

Sinkapore youths are stubborn and ruly. Let them taste the rotan of changi and they’ll noe wat is premarital sex.

AndrewPKYap SG

R U Serious???? Shocked

hisoka SG

well with the stupid law, they might if they are unlucky Confused

AndrewPKYap SG

OIC, you mean underage sex.

Urroh SG

It will surely help to remove thoughts that Singaporeans have the least number of sex activity in the world.. Since our future youths doesnt abstain from sex.. Mr. Green

mistyblue SG

What the young do with their lives, why should anyone care if they don't care for themselves.

Next time someone ask me to donate money to help all these people who screw their lives and now expect me to help them, I tell them to screw off.

AndrewPKYap SG

I think that you might want to reconsider whether it is " our future youths" or " our present youths"

Why do you equate premarital sex as "don't care for themselves" and that it will "screw their lives" to the point that they will need the public to donate money to them to survive?

It is dangerous to jump to conclusions and make wild assumptions dear.

mistyblue SG

since these kids think they want to do whatever with themselves, they can go ahead. If they start getting stds/hivs or giving birth to unwanted kids or throwing their newborns into the toilets/trash to die. Somehow, there is always a charity setup to "save" these people because the policy here don't give free lunch. I only represent myself : Please don't count on me. I like to give 100% freedom to people to choose their lifestyles and they should be responsible for their choices. They know how to screw, so I don't see the excuse that these people do not know the consequence.

Urroh SG

I think that you might want to reconsider whether it is " our future youths" or " our present youths"

anything la.. Future youths follow their parents mah.. Mad

Komon SG

youths also horny right have their needs wad Mr. Green

dumbdumb! SG

shrugs, its a personal choice ba.. its a struggle, for me la.. Sad

hiphop2009 SG

dey are still young, why write dem off?

if we dun help dem, who is going to help dem?

face it, this is a reality, problems of pre-marital sex and unmarried mothers cannot be eliminated completely. This applies to every countries in the world, we can only reduce but nt eliminate.

AndrewPKYap SG

So is pre-marital sex a moral issue (right or wrong based on some moral code) or a health and social issue (STD/HIV/Unwanted Pregnancy) to you?

shandower SG

I also believe in freedom of choice. Mr. Green

JerzZzzZ SG

More of the latter. Razz

Urroh SG

To the Youths out there,

Remember to buy condoms before planning for sex..

Twisted Evil

bigmouthjoe SG

What is abstinence? Very Happy

But seriously hor, if a girl presents herself to you, you reject meh? I never said no to such things lor... if it's meant to be, it's meant to be.

But wear condom lah.

AndrewPKYap SG

Not many girls actually "presents herself to you" right?

mistyblue SG

Don't you already know. In SG, money counts for everything. Moral, Ethics and whatever wishy-washy crap can go to hell and no one care.

For all these social issues, the repeated mantra is "There is no Free Lunch from the government". SG is the land of charity organizations being run like for-profit corporations.

Therefore my take is that if people, young, old or in-between, screw their lives. I might have compassion for them, but it I would also tell them to take full responsibility for their own actions.