per my prior post<\/a>), where do you stop? \u00a0Is there an age cut-off, and, if so, why? \u00a0Is a sex-having-teen morally obliged to get IUDed or implanted to avoid pregnancy? \u00a0What if she can\u2019t handle the side-effects? \u00a0Is taking the pill good enough? \u00a0What about more-or-less taking the pill with a few misses, or using condoms? \u00a0Or is this an absolute sort of thing, regardless of consequences? <\/p>\nOf course, I write this knowing that the liberal bloggers who say this aren\u2019t exactly going to beat a path to my door to tell me how far they go in their opinion. \u00a0But it does seem as if they don\u2019t recognize that The Giver and Brave New World were meant to be dystopias. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
are there any limits to when teen sex isn\u2019t appropriate? Oh, sure, of course, it should be consensual \u2014 though there\u2019s a bit of an issue in that, legally, a teen can\u2019t consent to sex, and I don\u2019t know how one reconciles the notion that a teen can\u2019t consent to sex with an older man […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[172],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-teen-sex"],"yoast_head":"\n
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