The Influence Of Casual Sex

Improved Essays
Sex is a person’s choice. They may decide to be abstinent, wait until they find somebody they love before having sex, or have casual sex that is not part of a serious relationship. It is a person’s choice as to when it is the right time for them to have sex. Whether it is to wait until marriage, wait a year, three months, two weeks, or even forty five minutes after meeting a partner; it is still a personal decision. My personal choice is to build a relationship and an emotional bond between the two partners before being intiment. Which is why I think casual sex is wrong for me. Casual sex turns something that was once bonding, connecting, loving, joyful, and emotional for two lovers into something that is considered meaningless, later regretful, and disappointing. Casual sex leaves people regretting the action and disappointed when they are considered an afterthought. …show more content…
Today’s society thinks abstinence is unrealistic because it is an outdated way of thinking. People also believe it is unhealthy to sustain from intercourse because sex is beneficial for a person’s health. Abstinence is not the most popular choice. It is however, my personal preference. I am a part of the 3% of Americans who are remaining abstinent. This 3% of Americans can fully give themselves to their spouses. We will not regret that somebody other than our wife/husband has seen us in such an intiment way. We will be able to share a sacred moment with the person we are supposed to love eternally until death do us part. Abstinence is not a common practice but it is a safe one. With all the staggering statistics, sexually transmitted disease and unwanted pregnancy is always 0% when a person is

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    All through D’Ambrosio’s article he emphasizes on his emotions, which could intentionally hurt his readers or connect with them. One example of emotional appeals in D’Ambrosio’s article is that he is “baffled” by couples that do not have sex, especially the younger couples (2). D’Ambrosio’s feelings are irrelevant in that statement because not all couples want to have sex, nor do couples think that being intimate will make their relationship strong. Every relationship has different perspectives and restrictions. Some couples that are young and have restrictions may feel offended because they might be waiting till marriage to be intimate.…

    • 910 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Let's say we're working on an assembly line, and we all know how precise and productive those are. If one step out of a gross is incomplete, the product becomes incomplete as well, even though that one step does not ripple throughout the process. Chastity is best said to be "rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation". In a modern society, a driving force behind commercialism and the "engineering of consent" is this crazy obsession over a recreational activity. I know the benefits of coitus, but it shouldn't be placed as an ultimate goal in a relationship, so for an example, a stud cannot live on heavy petting his whole life, if it only includes his golden age, and after that well... such an action can only be so generous, but just to be fair, I do have these tendencies and fantasies.…

    • 626 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The purpose of the Sex Can Wait study was to assess the effects of the program and examine how effective the program was (Borawski, Trapl, Lovegreen, Colabianchi, & Block, 2005). For Keeps is a 5-day abstinence-only program that stresses abstinence until marriage and focuses on the benefits of abstinence (Borawski et al., 2005). For Keeps and Sex Can wait have a few commonalities. For Keeps and Sex Can Wait was intended to increase abstinence beliefs and intentions, increase efficacy when pressured, reduce early sexual experimentation among the…

    • 1395 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    According to this article, “There are one hundred and twelve pregnancies for every one-thousand young women aged 15-19, resulting in 61 births, 36 abortions, and 15 miscarriages.” The reason for the schools wanting to push for abstinence programs is because according to a survey done by the Department of Health and Human Services that the decrease in teenaged pregnancies may continue. In 1995, fifty percent of women aged 15-19 engaged in sexual activity, down from fifty-five percent in 1990. Among boys, the 1995 figure was 55 percent, down from 60 percent in 1988. However, the problems with these abstinence programs are that they cost way too much and might give misleading information.…

    • 2282 Words
    • 10 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Abstinence-Only Education

    • 1496 Words
    • 6 Pages

    The Harmful Inaccuracies of Abstinence-Only Education For many reasons, including both moral and financial, “Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage” sexual education programs are taught all across America. These are programs that emphasize abstaining from sex until marriage, and generally tell students that this is the most effective way to avoid pregnancy and diseases. These programs often do not teach about other forms of contraception, with the belief that abstinence should be enough. Unfortunately, these programs are still taught despite the mounting evidence showing that not only are they ineffective, but actively harmful to the student’s health.…

    • 1496 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In today’s ever-changing culture, life as an adolescent is more complicated and confusing than it was for past generations. One of the biggest changes that has occurred is how openly our culture talks about sex. It is virtually everywhere spanning from books, to ads, to T.V., and to music, along with other countless sources. The effect this is having on adolescents is quite obvious, with one million pregnancies resulting in teen mothers and three million cases of STD’s effecting adolescents, results as of 2000 (Thomas). In an attempt to solve these problems, educators have looked to abstinence-only programs as the solution.…

    • 1215 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The federal funding of abstinence-only sex education programs has been a controversial topic for years. For over a decade the United States has been funding abstinence-only programs, but the question still remains whether or not these programs are effective and should be continued. This is a controversial topic because the United States has the highest rates for teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases amongst the developed nations. Although we do need to reduce the rates for teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, I believe that federal funding of abstinence-only sex education programs should be revoked. While there is a strong need to implement programs to reduce high teenage pregnancy and STD rates, these programs should be effective and they should not be costly.…

    • 658 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Abstinence-Only Model

    • 465 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Abstinence-only sex education has been a social problem that has existed for a long time now. In 1996 there was a Welfare Reform law policy put in place. The main goal of this policy was and still is to reduce to teen pregnancy. This approach was considered to be “the healthies strategy to prevent teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease” (Solomon-Fears).…

    • 465 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Abstinence-Only Education

    • 933 Words
    • 4 Pages

    strengths of this research approach is it being an archival study. All the information it is trying to endorse is about how sexual education is beneficial for individual and the general health of the nation. The author’s main finding is that abstinence-only education is harmful to the sexual health of American citizens, specifically teenagers. The authors state, “Although abstinence from sexual intercourse represents a healthy behavioral choice for adolescents, policies or programs offering “abstinence only” or “abstinence until marriage” as a single option for adolescents are scientifically and ethically flawed,” (Santelli, Ott, Lyon, Rogers, Summers, and Schleifer 2006). This quote makes the study unique because it acknowledges is a healthy…

    • 933 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Abstinence-Only Education

    • 867 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Sexual Education in the United States primarily revolves around abstinence-only education. Abstinence-only education promotes the values of the middle class of our society. Various studies have shown that abstinence-only education is not the best course for providing teens with the necessary information to make choices about sex. While one might optimistically hope that teens would choose abstinence, a survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), found that “47% of high school students have engaged in sexual activity at some point in their lives” (CDC, 2014).…

    • 867 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Abstaining From Common Sense: A Persuasive Essay on Why Abstinence Education Should Not Be Taught In Schools In the U.S. the states with the highest teen birth rates all either do not mandate sex education or stress abstinence-only education (Lowen). Almost all studies on teens health indicate that abstinence only programs should not be used in schools. According to Leslie Kantor’s article, “Abstinence-only Education Violating Students' Rights to Health Information,” the 1996 Welfare Reform bill contained a provision that gave 50 million dollars a year to abstinence only education. In 2006 George Bush expanded abstinence education’s budget to 206 million dollars, vowing to “elevate abstinence education from an afterthought to an urgent goal.”…

    • 1524 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Staying Human Analysis

    • 1027 Words
    • 5 Pages

    “Staying Human”- Analyzing 1984 Since the first publication of the novel 1984 by George Orwell, startling questions have been raised regarding the meaning of “staying human.” In a totalitarian government like one featured in the novel, where citizens are desensitized to their very emotions and indoctrinated into propaganda, this becomes quite a feat. But what does it mean to stay human? Is it to act on ones emotions and whims, to be free, under ones own control, or is there something more.…

    • 1027 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Much like the people of the New World State, being promiscuous from the get-go is more damaging than not. In a scenario suggested by mark Gungor, when a man has sex before marriage, he will do all he can to relive that experience, whether it is with role playing or finding more partners. Nevertheless, whomever he is with, “He is not really interested in the girl; he is interested in the sex.” … “NOTHING impacts a man like his first sexual experience.”…

    • 1121 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    No one should be made to feel that their worth is only measured in whether they have had sex or not. It is vitally important that we not use shame in an attempt to scare our children into complying with our own sexual ethics. While it is great to explain the benefits of abstinence, people have begun to rely too heavily on a shame-based rhetoric that motivates teens into compliance for fear of being "dirty" or undesirable. It is important that kids are taught, at an acceptable age, that their identity and worth is not tied to their…

    • 1151 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Our society’s perception of sex and sexuality is influenced by various factors, such as the media, culture, and religion. The media influences our perception of sex by oversexualizing women and over masculinizing men in advertisements, music videos, television, and film. Female models and actresses may dress or act in a provocative manner to gain attention by the media and particularly from men. Women may be influenced to imitate these behaviors, or even exaggerate their sexuality, to appear desirable to men. Women may also feel unconfident when comparing their bodies to those seen in the media, creating an unhealthy perception of their sexuality.…

    • 1279 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays