Abstinence pants, because chastity belts are so 17th century

If you look at the statics of the past few years you will notice that the teen birth rate is down. Does this mean teens arent having sex? No I think it means more are using birth control. However I do think abstance should be taught. And for crying out loud DONT put condoms in thier prom bags or hand them out at school. That like giving a acholic a bottle of Jack Daniels

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Commercial greed and stupidity..

I envision the conversation between parents and daughter something like : MOM:"Well, great..you,are pregnant...Why didn't you pay attention to the message on your pants?"

Daughter: Well, they were wadded up on the floor near the bed and we were going at it so hard and fast we really couldn't have read it anyway. Ya know mom...now that I think about..the money we wasted on those pants . we probably shoulda spent on birth-control"

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This is one of the stupidest ideas a store has ever had. I'm 16 and would never in a million years year those pants. Most teenagers will most likely think the pants are just as demeaning as if you were the girl that everyone said she had sex with 5 guys in one night. The only thing these sweatpants are going to do is give a good laugh to teenagers everywhere..

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The pants are preposterous, but not more so than the sentiment expressed by the writer of this article. "As a parent, you hope your child will have the good sense to wait until they are mature (and hopefully, married to the perfect person you've carefully chosen) to become sexually active" I mean, seriously?

It's quite simple, really. Sexuality is the cornerstone of our very nature. In fact, the human body is designed only for sex and eating. Everything else we do is superfluous. It is our biology that determines readiness for sexual activity, nothing more, nothing less.

It has been shown that teaching abstinence does not work. When a person starts to develop that curious longing for sexual contact, having a parent who does nothing but pound abstinence into their head, is only going to make them feel that they must now keep secret the thoughts and desires that they have; and only serve to fuel their curiosity. Afterall, when you tell someone not to look down, what is the first thing they do? Prohibiting something not only doesn't work to prevent it, it will surely only hasten it.

Instead, foster an open and trusting relationship with your children. It doesn't take much more than simple observation to see when your child's view of the opposite sex evolves beyond 'child's play'. When this happens, equip them with birth control, teach them the risks of pregnancy and STDs. Arm them with knowledge, and give them both the tools to be responsible, and the freedom to use those tools. You might just be surprised.

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the greatest tool for abstinance is castration for boys it works very well and makes a boy more respectful and less sexually active, so boys/men even stop have sexual thoughts and become more caring,nurturing and treat women with more respect try it on your son /husband you wtll be glad you did

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in junoir high i had a ring that said true love waits... i even wore it while having sex

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The problem with True ove Waits , is most 13 yr. olds think they found it already.

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Sure, true love can wait, but love and sex can mean different things to different people - especially teens who don't even know what love is yet...
Instead of smokescreening the whole sex issue, how about showing teens what unprotected sex can do, show them what STD's, HIV and AIDS do to a person, show them women in labor, then ask them if they want to throw away their carefree lives OR be prepared to be sensible and wear a condom, get on birth control, etc. Be realistic as to what your teen will / will not do, you can't prevent it, all you can do is give them the facts.
That would all be more practical than a cutesy pair of pants and "shielding their eyes" sort of approach.

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That is the most stupid thing that I ever heard !

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The problem with "True Love Waits," is most 13 yr. olds think they have already found it.

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Making a poster out of people doesn't accomplish a thing. Posting remarks about sex on a kid's body to make a statement against sex??? Duuuh!! Remember, when our nation had morality is when we became number one - before the countless "revolutions" that would enlighten us. Good old conservative, religious, family values work.

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Geez, that's about as tacky as those novelty shirts little girls and teenage girls wear, that say "princess, sassy or angel." What ever happened to keeping an aspirin between your knees? If some of thses girls would keep their mouths shut and their legs crossed, we wouldn't be commenting on things of this nature. What's next- are they going to have pants for girls that say "enter" on the front and "exit" on the back?

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hahahaha... that's funny!!! its not going to work. And abstience is not something you should be ashamed of, but its also not something to be advertised. I don't care about your choice or his choice or her choice, keep that to yourself. In my opinion i think alot of guys will look at this as a challenge more than anything else.

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Our society - which really means the media which faithfully reports the antics of "normal" folks like Paris and Brangelina and others who follow their hormones wherever they might take them in complete disregard of other people's spouses and decency - tells us that people of EITHER sex who 'give it up' are more normal than those who prefer to save it for one person only. When did we become a culture that laughs at honor and extols pheromone-sniffing? Isn't that what animals do? I would like to believe that our young people are smarter than warthogs and ferrets. Times HAVE changed in many, many ways, but virtue, honor, purity, and common sense haven't, even though so many hormonal people try very hard to make it seem so. Don't these people have any self-control? Or is that old-fashioned, too? And why do we sugar-coat things with euphemisms? Going out and getting yourself knocked-up because you just HAD to do it - I HAD TO, I COULDN"T HELP IT, blah blah blah - isn't a "mistake." It's a conscious, sentient decision. Life is full of choices. Why do so many people think with their genitals? Have they no brains? Who is in charge of a person: the media? a penis? the fear that he'll go out with someone else if I don't put out? True luv? Because, whether some people comprehend it or not, TRUE love really does wait until the proper time and place. As human beings, not rabbits, are we not intelligent enough to understand that pheromones and circumstance are NOT what it's all about? As for the "heat of the moment," people do all kinds of stupid things using that excuse. They murder people in the heat of the moment, too, but that still doesn't excuse it, and someone is still dead. That being said, the pants are stupid.

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this whole abstinence thing makes me sick...its sad to see society in retrograde instead of evolving. the whole idea that people who chose to abstain are "pure", thus making those who choose not to "impure" is absolutely disgusting. even the whole approach is unrealistic. TRUE LOVE WAITS suggests that only teens who believe they are in love decide to have sex, when everyone knows that is simply not the case 90% of the time. they want to experiment and become familiar with their sexuality before becoming emotionally involved, but americans are not ready to deal with that...the very mention of it terrifies them and causes fits of outdated moralistic zeal. when kids are being taught that all sex leads to disease and pregnancy and therefore misery, not to mention trying to make all forms of contraception look totally insignificant, something is definately very wrong. a recent government study showed teen pregnancy is on the rise for the first time since the early 90s! and who can we thank for this? goeorge bush and his brilliant decision to fund abstinence only education. just another one of his great ideas. almost ALL of these programs, including TRUE LOVE WAITS are based on fundamentalist christian theology. if you want your children to be abstinent send them to sunday school or bible study, religion has no place in our public schools.

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You have got to be kidding me!!! There is only so much you can protect your kids from, and then you have to just hope that you have taught them to make the right decision. At some point, you just have to trust them. Plus, most teenagers don't really think about doing something until they know their parents don't want them to. Putting those pants on a poor kid could wind up only pushing them closer to sex, not further away from it.

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It's human nature to want to procreate for the insurance of the continuation of the species.In cave man times, there were no rules. They ate, slept, hunted and procreated. Now we have rules and morals and are supposed to wait for marrige.But the old instints are still there from long ago. You can't stop teenagers from climbing out the window to meet their boyfriends,unless they make up their own minds about it. I never had a problem or my daughter never had a problem like that, but others have. You can't stop love. Like the song, "she left the suds in the bucket and the clothes hanging out on the line" From Michele in Texas

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Just another gimmick from the Idiots in charge of K-Mart, if america were more open about human sexuality as they are in Europe we would not need this idiotic crap.
Besides I for one do not know of any teenage girl that would be caught dead wearing the crap that K-Mart sells

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Some people are asking who whould were those pants? I know plenty of girls at my school that would wear them just to get the attention. I personaly would nrver wear them, no I haven't had sex yet, and no I don't plan on waiting. I'm 17 about to be a senior in high school and I've been with my boyfriend for almost 2 years. It's not like we haven't had the chance, we just have always stoped. Now that I'm on birth control, who knows when it will happen.

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