I normally post on the MH pages to help people who are going through depression, but the thread, "Please Don't Judge" caught my attention. It bought back memories of 40 years ago when I first made love to my then girlfriend.
She was stunning and knew it, I was full of hormones and so was she. We took the chance at my house when parents were out for the evening and headed towards my bedroom. Our brains dived into our undies so we took them off and hopped into bed. We didn't use protection. We could so easily have become teenage parents. There but for good fortune went the pair of us.
Up to then everyone had been telling us that sex is verbotten. Sex outside marriage is immoral. You should not do it until you are married.. You can catch all sort of VD (pre aids and herpes).
What no one was saying was making love is wonderful and that your body just wants it soooooo much. That you really will loose any sense of intelligence when you are close to someone. (That went for the both of us) and that your sex drive really is quite powerful.
Obviously the world has changed since then. We now have internet porn and most teenagers have probably seen it before becoming sexually active. Reading the thread, I do wonder if we are helping children prepare for adult life, (indeed a good friend's eldest got pregnant) and if not how can we do a better job.