The Benefits of Abstinence
The Benefits of Abstinence
Picture this you are 21 years old, you live in a ruinous apartment, the electricity has been turned off, there is a starving baby crying in the background, and you just got finished telling your best friend you can not go to the club because you cant afford a babysitter, and you need to apply the ointment to your genital herpes. You hang up the phone and look around for someone to help you with this mess. There is nobody there. You sit and ponder how you got here, how all this happened. Well, you had sex before you were marred that is how it happened. Sure it felt great when you did it, and you trusted the person you did it with, that does not always mean that it is the right thing to do. Well everyone is doing it! Like Mom always says, “If everyone jumped off a cliff would you do it to?” In this essay I will discuss the importance of abstinence and the consequences of sex before marriage.
Ever seen or had a cold sore? Just imagine how it would feel to have several of those red itchy blisters in your pubic area? A lot of people who have sex before they are married say they trust that person and no way would they ever get any kind of sexually transmitted disease. In fact, that is what Allen thought.
“I thought she had sex with me right away because she liked me. But she just wanted to tell people she’d done it with me. Even though I’d like to forget her I never will. Why? Because, for the rest of my life, every time I’m involved in a relationship, I’m gong to have to tell the person that I have one of the worst kind of STD’s, Herpes Simplex 2. It has no cure, I get rashes and blisters on my private areas and everything itches. I need to rest a lot—when I get stressed out, the blisters appear more often. I wonder if someone will ever want to be with me knowing that I have this and could pass it on to them. I am so angry at the girl who gave me this disease and didn’t warn me. Having sex was...