• bitsplease@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Frankly, when I was in high school - cost was never the issue in whether a couple used condoms, and even in my relatively conservative area, there were local programs that would give out free condoms if you cared enough to look

    Better sex education would go a much longer way imo - because even in California our sex Ed (this was like a decade ago, so maybe it’s changed) was full of “abstinence only” garbage - thankfully the teachers were usually smart enough to go off book and give realistic advice/answers

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      1 year ago

      if you cared enough to look

      Big if. To me it seems worthwhile to have them easily accessible so that teens would be carrying them around. Limits the amount of pre-planning needed

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      My wife grew up.in California and they didn’t even teach sex ed.in high school. We need tobtake back out schools from these Christian crazies who ruined sex.ed and want to take away our books