Why do people give the advice of abstinance as a form of birth control?

Surely its obvious





People are like ''Its the only 100% effective method of contraception''





Like people wouldn't know. Its like saying the only way to prevent yourself from the risk of being in a car crash is to never get in a car. Its ridiculous adviceWhy do people give the advice of abstinance as a form of birth control?
Its the only answer they have, if they're morally opposed to the use of contraceptives and believe that the only permissible reason to have sex is to procreate children.





I agree, its totally ridiculous and unrealistic.Why do people give the advice of abstinance as a form of birth control?
Because they can't give you birth control that is a 100 % effective...condoms, the pill and all the other stuff does not prevent you from getting pregnant or getting an STD the only sure way they know of is by NOT having sex. They say its birth control because basically your controling yourself, your urgeses and your body from what may happen. If you have no control then well its the fault of the person who really wants to do it,.
You'd be suprised that if you don't reinforce the obvious, or the simple, how often it's looked over. You need to put that bug in the brain.





Plus, if you're preaching birth control, you CAN'T just leave it out. The person might just focus on the other ways to not get pregnant.
No, I agree with DLJ. It IS the only way to prevent yourself from getting pregnant. IMO (I'm prolife and catholic) Birth Control is always wrong, we use the natural way. We don't believe in killing babies. I don't know exactly how to explain this, but get a membership on this website and post it, and they can give you a more thorough answer.





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That's because it IS the only 100% effective method. It doesn't mean you have to follow the advice if you don't want to, but then don't complain if you end up getting something.
Hmmm...it seems that you object to this due to its obviousness. I wish that it were as obvious to most people!





I think that the problem is partly due to the fact that there has been this myth promulgated by the sex instruction world under the name ';safe sex';. Isn't that a GREAT phrase? ';Safe sex';. The world has STDs of all manner and ilk, and, starting in the 1980s, we have been hit with a _new_, *extremely* horrible virus, HIV, which is odd in that it is quite weak...UNLESS it finds a break in your skin (like the tears which are apparently a typical result of anal sex; hence the huge amount of it amongst homosexual men), and ANY cut will do, thank you.





Yeah, there are the standards (several types of herpes; gonorrhea; chlamydia; syphilis) and then this HIV thing which ends up giving you AIDS which kills you (at least indirectly; you catch an infection and die), after a long and ugly struggle.





So HOW are we to have all the sex we want? Oh, who will help us? TA-DA: it's SAFE SEX! ';All'; we have to do is ';use a condom';! And somehow we are MAGICALLY protected from ALL STDs! People ask with concern if someone has ';safe sex';, etc.





Of course, there are various failure modes of condoms. They break (I've had this happen, myself). They only cover part of you, so they don't protect NON-covered parts from exposure. And you can STILL get pregnant using condoms, because they are NOT 100% effective in prevent pregnancy (look at the box!) so they clearly are NOT 100% effective in preventing STDs, including AIDS. Add to that the fact that there was a report back when condoms were first being pushed that said that the HIV/AIDS virus is so small that it could easily pass through natural fissures which are found in latex condoms all the time...





And then you get the idea, right? Many people have been sold a bill of goods with respect to the idea that somehow a condom is a magical guarantee of SAFE sex, which I would personally take to mean no unwanted pregnancies and no unwanted diseases/conditions/parasites/etc.





It's a lie.





THIS is why is it necessary to remind people that abstinence *IS* the ONLY way to make sure that you do NOT have either of these things occur.





So I think that's a good part of the basis for this, and the RE-education of people who think that they know how to be ';safe'; in sex is truly important.





I wish it were not. :-(