Interesting Statistics

What to encourage young people about

Another question in the 2005 Durex survey was about what we should be encouraging our young people to do.

For Singapore,

Abstinence till marriage	24%
Practise safer sex	61%
Regular health check-ups	14%
None of the above	1%

Our Ministries of Health and Education are out on a crusade to press home abstinence, but 61% of Singaporeans think the most needed message to our youth is safer sex.

Unplanned pregnancies

We are in the top league of countries with unplanned pregnancies. To the question "ever had an unplanned pregnancy", Singapore's figures were

At age 16 and below	8%
At age 17 and 18	9%
At age 19 and above	15%

In the age category 16 and below, only China had a figure higher than Singapore, at 17%.

In the 17-18 age group, again only China had a higher figure, at 18%.

In the age category 19 and above, Singapore was in third place. China had 20% and South Africa had 17%.

I have argued elsewhere in Yawning Bread that abstinence campaigns don't work very well; they merely feed moralistic egos.

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Disclaimer: Taken off yawningbread.org

if 61% of Singaporean thinks that teaching our young to practise safer sex, this would imply a shift of mindset from a conservative angle into a more "westernize" perspective on sexual behaviour of us Singaporeans that having sex before marriage is ok. I'm not saying it's not okay, i'm just wondering why i'm not agreeing with the 61% of people surveyed.

Lemme tell you why, 2 reasons

1. Unwanted Pregnancy is a risk, plus you will be essentially killing a life. (we are in top 3 for the most unwanted pregnancy in the WORLD, almost reaching first class)

However, the crux of my reason lies here

2. I believe, rather old fashionly, that the bonding of two person involves more then just physical contact, but rather, consist of both physical contact and an emotional bonding that can only be given to the person whom you truely love. Which naturally, is someone whom you want to be with forever (aka marry). But I don't think many guys see it the way as I do nowadays, for reasons I don't seem to comprehend. Isn't emotional bonding so much more satisfying than physical bonding?