Masturbation & Safe Sex

Okay, Suzanne, so I was in your corner up until I reached about the fifth paragraph. Not offering your son or daughter a condom makes sense. If they don't heed your advice, and you've talked to them (in a rational and not condescending way) about sex, then they'll go to the store and buy their own.

But I find your outrage at vibrators a little more than disconcerning. What's wrong with telling your child that masturbation is okay, and promoting it over casual sex? Wouldn't you rather have your child casually masturbating over casually having sex? Trying to curtail teenagers from sexuality is nearly impossible, and females tend to have the most difficult time with the issue of sex - especially by the time they reach college and notice the masses of people getting drunk and having sex.

88% of all women in the United States are infected with the human pampiloma virus, so clearly A LOT of people are/have been/and will continue to take part in unprotected sex as well as unprotected oral sex. (And as statistics have shown, when told to abide by abstinence , kids tend to gravitate to oral and anal sex somehow thinking that isn't sex...which leaves them just as vulnerable to diseases such as HPV).

So why not promote the adage "If you want something done right, you've gotta do it yourself." It's extremely difficult to catch a venereal disease using a vibrator, and it also allows them to healthily fulfill those sexual urges.

Otherwise, the option by the time they reach college may very well wind up being Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays getting completely blitzed at the fraternity of choice out of sexual frustration - followed by some incredibly bad (and inebriated) decisionmaking.