Awesome video made to support Planned Parenthood because Young Americans: have sex. use birth control. have periods. plan to have sex. want to be educated.
It's time to face the facts, Young Americans are not going to stop having sex, give us the tools to be safe and make informed choices. Realize that while Planned Parenthood offers abortion services, they also off gynecological services, birth control and counseling.
[For the record, I am against abortion but pro-choice. I will not force my opinions on anyone else and take away a woman's right to have control over her own body]
http://youtu.be/gaxBR1AiFS4
"A message from students at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. They write:
In order to "balance the budget" the House of Representatives recently announced the intention to strip all federal funding to Planned Parenthood. This is unacceptable. It's time to face reality: many young people have sex, and need to know how to stay safe and healthy. Even those who have chosen to wait still need to know how to be safe and healthy when begin their sexual activity. This extreme ideological measure threatens our youth's ability to choose their own future.
In many parts of America, Planned Parenthood is the only place young people can go to learn about safe sex, access contraceptives, or have a simple question about "down there" answered.
With all the rhetoric centering on "government waste," Congress's refusal to close multi-billion dollar corporate tax loopholes and instead eliminate essential, multi-million dollar sexual health programs is beyond hypocritical.
We are starting a student movement to make sure elected leaders know: Americans have sex, and we stand with Planned Parenthood."
I haven't written anything in forever...I don't know if anyone actually reads this but I'm in the mood for an insomnia induced post...sooo
There's been a lot of entries about sex and waiting for marriage vs not waiting so I thought I'd weigh in...
I didn't wait for marriage but I did wait until I was falling in love. My boyfriend and I got to know each other and started dating in June of last year, I made it clear that I wasn't ready to have sex. But I knew that I did want to and that I did trust him enough to, it was instinct I guess, plus he said possibly the greatest thing ever to me "You're ready when you're ready." See, in the past, two things would happen with a guy 1. he'd try to start to undo my pants and alarms would go off in my head and I'd stop him and 2. I'd feel comfortable enough to think that I might actually want to have sex with him and explain to him that I was a virgin and wanted to go slow and mysteriously within like a week he'd decide that, to quote one guy, "it'd be better if we didn't have a physical relationship" ugh. So my boyfriend saying that was the greatest thing ever and made me more confident in the fact that I wanted to be with him. Plus he actually got my pants off and there were no alarms in my head, I was very impressed haha he probably won that by asking me if I was really going to sleep with my jeans on haha
So almost 3 months later, I turned 21 and the next night I had sex. It didn't hurt, it wasn't a miserable experience, I even wasn't that scared. All in all, it was a great experience. Less than 2 months later we said "I love you" for the first time and now we've been together for almost a year and half.
Sex is great. There's the obvious reasons why: it feels great, orgasms are awesome, etc. But then there are the other reasons...It's the closest two people can possibly get, cliched I know, but it literally, physically is. There's those indescribable moments when mid-coitus he stops and brushes the hair out of your face or reaches to hold your hand or says "I love you", and not in the screaming anything during sex way but the this is a moment between the two of us and I wouldn't want to share this with anyone else and I never want to stop because I love you so much way. And then theres the moments when something funny happens or one of you cracks a joke or teases the other and you two laugh and enjoy the moment without every missing a beat because you're so in tuned and comfortable with each other that you can goof around during sex and not take it all too seriously. I guess what I'm saying is that it isn't about the physical aspects of having sex but the emotional aspects too that can make sex great.
Now why didn't I wait until marriage like the good little Catholic girl my parents raised me to be to have all this? Because. Because to me, the fundamental part of marriage is love and being in love and that's why you share yourself completely with your partner. So why does that have to be exclusive to marriage? You can (and would have to be, I would think) be in love without being married and you don't wait until you're married to share your mind, your personality, your time, your history and everything else that makes you you when you're in love. so why not share your body too? Your body is yours and yours alone, you have complete control over it. Not God or anyone else, you. If God wanted control over our bodies he would not have given us free will. And I was raised to believe in the loving and forgiving God, so when you die is God really going to say to you "Well, you've always been a caring person, you stop to help others, you've never committed any crimes, you've loved and raised your family as well as you could, you are a good person. But, you had sex before you were married, so you have to spend eternity in Hell." Um no. I don't think so, that's not a forgiving and loving God. Ok I crossed the religion line and didn't set out intending to so let me veer back away from this before I get hate comments...
You know, my boyfriend and I talk about our future together and getting married and a part of me does like the fact that he'd be the only person I've had sex with, no one else will know my body like he does. But at the same time, if we were to ever break up I would not regret having sex with him and wouldn't regret not only having sex with my (future)husband, because I loved him wholeheartedly and shared myself with him completely and, sorry for the gushy cliche, that's beautiful.
Let me just point out that even though my post is mostly about sex when in love, there is nothing wrong with sex without love and enjoying it for purely the physical aspects :) I just don't have any experience with sex outside of my relationship
I think what bothers me about most waiting vs. not waiting posts is that people attack not waiting for mostly blind religious reasons and its fine if you honestly believe that but at least realize that that isn't what everyone believes. And there's nothing wrong with waiting for marriage if you've found someone who is willing to wait with/for you which is hard to do in today's society but don't write off people who don't wait as wrong. There's no reason to attack either side, the key is to accept that both sides have their reasons.
I wasn't really trying to argue or prove anything with this I guess, but those are my thoughts/experiences.
My boyfriend and I just graduated from college and celebrated our 1 year anniversary. Sounds great, right? Well, yes and no. Celebrating our anniversary is awesome but graduating... Besides all of the other downsides to graduating this year, there's also the fact that graduating means that we don't get to see each other every day. We're about an hour/ hour and a half from each other right now which isn't bad but it isn't great either. At school we would sleep with each other at least 5 nights a week and now, what? maybe once a month? How often will we really get to see each other? I'm completely bummed. I guess you could say I'm afraid that we'll grow apart or something but I really don't think that's exactly it. I don't know...I'm going to miss him and that just sucks. We don't get to spend lazy Saturday/Sunday afternoons doing nothing but watching tv, napping, and fooling around. It sucks that we're not going to get to spend time together. We had so much freedom at school, we could do whatever we wanted, see each other whenever we wanted, we could decide to see each other at a drop of a hat and be together in 10 mins... I want to be with him and I guess it feels like we're not actually together. It's bad enough that I don't get to see my other best friends from school but to not see him is even harder. Honestly, if I could only see one person a day, I'd choose to see him (but maybe that's just me because I'm antisocial...). Not knowing when I'm going to see him next is probably going to be one of the most difficult parts along with not having that physical contact, not falling alseep and waking up in his arms, not even holding hands...I crave that connection with him... I'm not so much afraid that we're not going to be able to stay together but more afraid of what missing him this much is going to do to me...that sounds weird but I don't know how else to explain it.
1. he can always make me laugh 2. he makes fun of me (in a he doesn't let me get away with being completely ridiculous way) 3. he's ridiculous 4. he likes to cuddle 5. he can be all lovey dovey with me 6. we can be weird together 7. he lets me rant at him 8. he tries to make my headaches in a completely ridiculous and silly way and it only kinda works because it makes me laugh and gets my mind off of it 9. he cares about my friends---my best friend and her long-term boyfriend (who my bf is friends with) just broke up and he keeps asking me if she's okay and how she's doing 10. he freaks out when he hears about cheaters 11. he wipes my nose when i'm crying (haha now, thats love) 12. he tells me i'm beautiful (even when i'm crying which is a complete lie haha) 13. he insisted on taking care of me when i was throwing up 14. he loves babies 15. he puts up with the ridiculous things that i do and say
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