WE MAKE 'EM WEAR HELMETS WHEN THEY RIDE THEIR BIKES

"In response to an alarming increase in sexual promiscuity among children ages 10 – 14, the Swiss government has decided to begin distributing “extra-small” condoms.

A study by the Swiss government’s Federal Commission for Children and Youth has revealed a significant increase in the percentage of minors between the ages of 10 and 14 who have sexual relations "frequently" in comparison to the results of similar studies from the 1990s.

In “response,” the government has announced it will distribute smaller condoms under the brand “Hotshot.”
Catholic News Agency

Because sex has become nothing more than a pastime and a form of recreation I don't see why we should treat it any differently than any other childhood activity; like riding a bike.

I remember my first bike. She was red, a little older than me. She'd been around the block a time or two. Her paint was scratched and her finish dull but her seat still had that youthful spring to it. She leaned seductively on her kickstand, her front tire turned with that come hither insouciance. Everything about her said, "Ride me."

OK, I'll stop now. The point is people aren't bikes and sex is not a child's plaything. It's bad enough that adults can't be trusted with the thing but now we're even letting the kids in on it. Is it just me? Am I just such a prude, so old fashioned that I can't see why adults should sanction sex, safe our not, between children?

Realistically, I know kids are going to do it. I was one once, too. But I also know, as should all other adults, that it isn't something that should be promoted. Sex has an affect on people. It binds us physically and spiritually. When a person abuses the privilege through sex outside marriage and with multiple partners, the mechanism that is built into us, the one meant to bind together two people for life, is slowly destroyed. Do you wonder about the rise in divorce since the beginning of the sexual revolution? Guess why it happened.

At the core of this is contraception. Freeing sexual activity from it's reproductive purpose severed our connection with God. We were meant to be open to life in every sexual act, allowing God to include us in the miracle of creating a baby. Instead, in an act of pride worthy of Satan himself, we shut God out of our sex lives and in so doing began the process of shutting Him out of everything else. We decided that the choice of life as it is connected to sex was ours to make. God would just have to put His plans on hold until we were ready for Him.

Is it too much to see how this power over life at creation would naturally start to carry over to the end of life as well? And, if we can decide whether to conceive in the first place why shouldn't we be able to correct our mistakes when the contraception fails and abort the baby? We have assumed the powers of God through science. We no longer need Him and we refuse to be constrained by the laws He gave us.

So now, with all the wisdom we little gods can muster, we give our kids helmets and condoms for their tenth birthdays; because we want them to be safe.