Rick Perry's Views On Sex: Window Into His Inability To Think Logically

As a father of two grown daughters, my wife and I stressed safe sex as soon as they were able to understand. Best lesson they ever had.

too bad you couldn't do the same for the boys :)

Teenage pregnancy rates have gone down dramatically since sex education was introduced - and for all the reminiscing about the good old days were actually higher in the '40's and '50's. The only blip in that long time trend appeared when abstinence only plans were instituted in areas of the country during the last administration.

The difference in the 40s & 50s being that the pregnant teen was sent off to an "aunt's house" or was forced to marry.

I am all for restraint BUT not teaching teens & pre-teens about sex & how to prevent unwanted pregnancies & STDs is dumb, just like depending on "just say no to sex only" education.

Perry is a Palin with testosterone.

I think your assessment of Perry could extend to any male posting here and not posting here.

I remember my youngest son, who was 22 at the time, was told he was the father of a young, beautiful girl's pregnancy. We didn't know it at the time, but he was one of three men who submitted their sperm for testing to Chicago. Oh, he planned to marry this young lady, but lo, and behold, he was NOT the father. You know what? The father of this baby was a DOCTOR!

The moral to my story....if a Doctor doesn't know about birth control (and he was married) then, there is no hope for our young generation who don't heed precautions preventing pregnancy and STD.

So telling them "just say no" is so much MORE effective.

Here's my story: Back in the 50s my parents wanted to have sex so they got married after knowing each other 3 months, cuz that was how "it was done back then". Come to find out they didn't share the same tastes in sex. Hmmmm - they are Catholic so no divorce. Sex ed was never taught (remember back then it was JUST SAY NO until married) so they kept getting pregnant. My mother hated kids, but my father liked having sex so she "submitted". 30 yrs later after giving 6 kids the most horrendous childhood (I was the last of these 6 unwanted & despised children {told that every day}) they finally went their own ways. My father had numerous affairs - my mother withdrew into her own little world.

The moral of my story - not educating children about sex & just telling them to wait until marriage ruins NOT just the lives of the two that got married BUT also any progeny.

Damn, Nica, that is more than awful...have no words. My precious sister who died June 11, 2011 married a neighborhood Catholic boy. She had three children with him only to learn years later that he not only sexually abused his own son, but sexually abused our brother.

My sister was a virgin when they married....she was 18 by six days. If she had been promiscuous would that have changed her life? No. She would have still married this awful person....after all, he lived across the street from us and who would have thought that he was a pedophile?

There is no moral to this story....chit happens in life!

If she had been promiscuous would that have changed her life?

That's not the question. If she had been more knowledgeable about sex before she got married and into a sexual relationship might she have recognized the signs of a pedophile? MUCH HIGHER chance of preventing "chit" like that when you can openly talk about it.

Knowledgeable about sex would not have made a difference. A pedophile doesn't have a label tatooed on their foreheads. This behavior didn't surface until my nephew was seven years old. He had sex with my sister and there were two more children.

So how does being ignorant about sex help her in that situation? I believe in complete sex ed including abstinence, other forms of BC, STDs, and respecting your partner & yourself. Abstinence only education produces teens that are ignorant to the truth about sexual intimacy.

Yes, Nancy did push "just say no" to drugs. I believe that program has been about as successful as abstinence only education and that is why I use the phrase.

...if a Doctor doesn't know about birth control (and he was married) then...

More likely, he didn't care.

magnoliaave, teaching restraint and abstinence need not be divorced from teaching birth control. For that matter, being sexually active doesn't automatically equal "indiscriminate", which seems to be how you're characterizing it.

Bottom line: Perry was repeating a slogan, not offering an answer. Abstinence Only education doesn't seem to be working all that great; enough already.

The State of Texas thinks otherwise!

I know they love him there. I just don't get it. I not a fan of the GOP but I certainly slanted right. The guy makes my skin crawl.

He is like the insurance salesman at the club that never turns off the insurance salesman and just hangs out and shots the breeze. He is that guy.

They don't necessarily love him everywhere in Texas. He's very unpopular in Austin.

I would imagine he is not popular in Austin

I for one from a righter position really do not like the way he is being shoved down every ones throat. If the establishment of the GOP likes him I automatically do not.

The problem is the corruption in DC, he is more of the same.

I know they love him there.

No, no they don't. People do not affirmatively support Rick Perry in Texas. They affirmatively support the "R" when they step into the voting booth. I can literally count the number of "Perry for Governor" bumper stickers I have seen in Texas over a period of 12 years on ONE hand. No one actually LIKES Perry. Texas is a conservative/rural state and that's how they vote. But its getting more liberal and urban by the minute...

Why are you all friggin collapsing Texas Guy's comments? I am really getting upset with all of this and going to NV.

Dallas and Austin are the are lean left, but Houston and San Antonio do not. It is a big damn state with lots of independent private business and non-union.

The urban areas are very much different from the NE urban centers because they are not so densely packed and the same economic pressures or logistics never come into play.

Dallas is leaning Democratic because of the high import population both from south of the border but also from the NE US that relocated there. Austin has always been liberal probably because it is the Capital and more likely it is a large college town that has become a hub for liberal refugee for the rural areas.

I would not say that is going to be a state wide trend. It will stay a red state for many decades to come.

I had young nieces and nephews. I loved babies, toddlers, and little kids. i moved away when they were teenagers, maybe if I would been around more I would not have had kids.

I have teenagers now. I swear their plot is to give me stroke or heart attack and put me in a home and get rich early and the easy way.

I have teenagers now. I swear their plot is to give me stroke or heart attack and put me in a home and get rich early and the easy way.

Hang in there Mark ...with a little luck, they will grow out of the teenage years and might even grow to appreciate your knowledge and insight once they reach twenty plus. Take it from someone who has lost a lot of hair and had the rest turn gray due to the teen years!

I was hell on wheels. I apologise to my folks every time I speak with them.