Violence vs. Sex

I just got done watching a South Park episode called "Good Times With Weapons", in which the four boys Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny bought ninja weapons, and while "fighting" Butters, Kenny managed to throw his ninja star in Butters' eye. The boys freaked out knowing that if they brought Butters' to the hospital, their parents would find out that they bought weapons, and they'd all be in deep trouble. They happened to lose Butters, and while trying to find him, the boys came across their parents at an auction. In an attempt to sneak by them, Cartman used his "invisibility" powers (in reality he took off all his clothes), and while he was walking right in front of them, naked, Butters' showed up with the ninja star in his eye. All the boys and parents then went to a town meeting, and come to find out, the town meeting was about Cartman walking in front of everyone nude rather than Butters' being severely hurt due to the kids' violence. In the end, Stan said "I guess parents don't give a crap about violence if there are sex things to worry about". That is so unbelievably true; a recent American poll asking "What would you rather your kids see: A head being decapitated or two people having sex?" showed that parents prefer violence over sex. That's sick.

This brings me to my next topic: teenage pregnancy. Many American parents are completely against teenage sex that they don't even talk to them about it before it's too late. I would say it's a lot better to give your daughter birth control pills just in case, instead of telling her that sex is simply forbidden. Teenagers and even some of younger age do it anyway, but don't protect themselves because they either didn't learn how to, or do not have access to methods of protection, and then get pregnant. The following is a good example: My grandmother told my mother that sex was forbidden, but my mom did it anyway without access to birth control pills and ended up getting pregnant shortly thereafter. Several years later, my mother made sure I had all the methods of protection I needed, and I haven't gotten pregnant. The same thing goes for drinking: If parents teach kids how to do it right instead of saying that it's completely forbidden before they reach the age of 21, then many deaths due to alcohol poisoning, for instance, could be avoided.