I think it is better to leave it at 16 years old. Teenagers nowadays are exposed to more media influence than compared to people afew generation back. If their lust and curiousity gets suppressed for too long, it would have a adverse effect on them. Meaning their thrist for lust might turn into things like perverted thoughts which of cos translate into things like peeping, molestation etc. The right way should be education. Educate the teenagers on safe sex if we can't stop them from having sex. Atleast we are saving thousands of life from being aborted. That is just my point of view.
To a certain extent i would agree to Kian hong, however even though schools,media and parents has stress the importance of the danger of unsafe sex and the consequences of it, teens are still carry on having unsafe sex.
Some of this teens are not even educated on the imprtant of safe sex as they are not even legal for sex, take for example the girl being interviewed on Get Real, she is only 13 years old, she might not know what was sex back then but was lured to it by older teens.
Therefor i feel that there is a need to review the laws on sex and impose actions on teens of at least 16 of age who had unsafe sex and laws on teens who had underage sex.
One way of tackling the problem of unsafe sex would be to have the selling of condoms made more open to teens, in such a way they wont feel the embarrassment of purchasing of such protections.
This arguement is somewhat similar to the one we have about driving age limits. I think that the age limit for teenage sex should be left at 16, as again, the level of maturity of the individual does not depend on the age.
Evidently, as most of us would have noticed, the law has not much of an effect on teenagers regarding teenage sex.
To put it across more straightforwardly, if person A wants to have sex, whether a not he/she has passed the legal age, it would not deter he/she from having sex. But if person B does not want to engage in sexual activities, even if he/she is pass the legal age, he/she would not do it anyway.
Hence, there is no reason to change the age limit of legal teenage sex, because it is more of teenagers mindset that has to be changed.
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I think it is better to leave it at 16 years old.
Teenagers nowadays are exposed to more media influence than compared to people afew generation back.
If their lust and curiousity gets suppressed for too long, it would have a adverse effect on them. Meaning their thrist for lust might turn into things like perverted thoughts which of cos translate into things like peeping, molestation etc.
The right way should be education. Educate the teenagers on safe sex if we can't stop them from having sex. Atleast we are saving thousands of life from being aborted.
That is just my point of view.
To a certain extent i would agree to Kian hong, however even though schools,media and parents has stress the importance of the danger of unsafe sex and the consequences of it, teens are still carry on having unsafe sex.
Some of this teens are not even educated on the imprtant of safe sex as they are not even legal for sex, take for example the girl being interviewed on Get Real, she is only 13 years old, she might not know what was sex back then but was lured to it by older teens.
Therefor i feel that there is a need to review the laws on sex and impose actions on teens of at least 16 of age who had unsafe sex and laws on teens who had underage sex.
One way of tackling the problem of unsafe sex would be to have the selling of condoms made more open to teens, in such a way they wont feel the embarrassment of purchasing of such protections.
This arguement is somewhat similar to the one we have about driving age limits. I think that the age limit for teenage sex should be left at 16, as again, the level of maturity of the individual does not depend on the age.
Evidently, as most of us would have noticed, the law has not much of an effect on teenagers regarding teenage sex.
To put it across more straightforwardly, if person A wants to have sex, whether a not he/she has passed the legal age, it would not deter he/she from having sex. But if person B does not want to engage in sexual activities, even if he/she is pass the legal age, he/she would not do it anyway.
Hence, there is no reason to change the age limit of legal teenage sex, because it is more of teenagers mindset that has to be changed.
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