One could see her countenance light up as she was told her pregnancy test read negative. But when asked if she'd practice abstinence until marriage, her 'no' answer sounded as if to say, "Are you crazy!". This wasn't the response i expected, most especially in the attitude of delivery. She considers as untimely, having a baby at nineteen but abnormal, the practice of abstaining from the act that produces the baby. What sense does this make?As i thought about this, i remembered what someone told me which could possibly be the mentality behind this girl's response.
Sometime ago a guy told me that sexual urge is like hunger; and when one is hungry, one eats. In other words, sex is food. He saw no reason why an urge as natural as hunger shouldn't be satisfied. When he said that, i realized this mentality should be one of the leading reasons for premarital sex and promiscuity in young adults especially in United states.
However, does the presence of an urge,hunger or desire justify its gratification? Can sex be really compared with food? What harm could self control possibly do to people? Is it really normal to purposely 'confuse' a virtue for a vice and vice versa? Where did this mentality come from? Is it from History,science or biology class? Or from medicine? The media? The Government? Home?
This is just one out of the various cancerous mentalities that has led into almost an endless list of social ills in the nation.
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