Laws Inplace Which Prohibit Sex Among Teens do a Good Job at Reducing the Amount of Teens Having Sex

=== RESPONSES & ARGUMENTS === //And that if laws would not have been there, the amount would have been lower?// No, no, no. My job here is not to show that there would be less teen sex if the laws were repealed, it's just that the laws do not do a very effective job towards their intended ends. //But it does help my case. If there were no laws, no specific age to ‘legally' have consensual sex, obviously there would be a wide variety of opinions. I was merely pointing out the confusion that would lead to. And also, how that could pressurize some people into doing things they wouldn't normally do.// How does that help your case in any way? Again, this debate is not about whether or not we should have age of consent laws. Stay on track. //Till date, no study has determined if the laws have any negative effect on the crime rate of a country.// OH REALLY? [1] Harvard Law School study [2] University of Chicago study [3] Future of Freedom Foundation sites studies and statistics [4] CFIF compilation of worldwide data Yeah...anyway...lets not turn this into a gun-control debate. Trust me, you'd lose. //And you still have to prove it.// Gun-control laws do the opposite of what they intend. You tried to refute this, you failed. And even though you said I had fail sources, you didn't even address my marijuana argument. Possibly because you know you can't refute it. You should have known that about my gun-control argument. Face it, laws don't always do what they intend and can even do the opposite. The laws of man are not laws of nature, they are far from well-tuned and inherent principles. Now, I've done my part, whether you recognize it or not I hope the voters will; it's up to you to prove otherwise. //And you know, the thing called protection is NOT fool proof. There is a fair amount of chance that it will slip off during the act and will lead to pregnancy. Or STD. A warning label written over the thing provides you ample warning of that.// Are you serious?...Are you seriously serious? Not only are you straying off course, AGAIN, but you fail in doing it, AGAIN. When a male condom is used properly it has a 97% effectiveness rate at preventing pregnancy and 99.9% effectiveness at preventing HIV. [5,6] On top of this, birth-control pills are 99.9% effective at preventing pregnancy.[7] When used in combination it would be more likely for someone to have a heart-attack result from sex than pregnancy. // The teens have less chance getting pregnant, as compared to adults, well, not only is it NO point at all, since it does not support your case in any way// Whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm the one making pointless arguments? Haha, good one. The fact that teens are more responsible with birth-control than adults directly helps my case because it was in response to your mis-guided claim that a female under the age limit would be intimidated by the law because they wouldn't have any legal rights to a child which may result from it. Alas, as I have shown, not only is protection extremely effective but teens are more likely to use it. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it. //I would like to point out that Con has not given any point in his defense. He's just refuted my points.// An interesting...and baffling assertion you make there. I'll let the voters be the judge of that. //"And lastly, laws specifying age of consent prohibit sex being ‘sold' to minors, which again lowers the amount." My points still stand unrefuted.// First off, you can't say "again" because you haven't provided any evidence as to how the laws lower the amount in any way; so far there's only been theoretical rambling that's really gotten you nowhere. Second, when you imply that the minors are having less an opportunity to have sex than adults because they can't buy it you would be implying that if they were allowed then both teens and adults would have more equal opportunity. That simply isn't so. I argue that teens naturally have a heightened opportunity for sexual interactions mostly due to their increased drive for the like and also the fact that most attend a public school atmosphere which would render more opportunity than, say, ... a job atmosphere. Third--and I saved this for last for humor-value--selling sex is called prostitution...and that's illegal for adults too. lol === SOURCES === 1. http://www.law.harvard.edu... 2. http://hematite.com... 3. http://www.fff.org... 4. http://www.mcsm.org... 5. http://www.youngwomenshealth.org... 6. http://www.avert.org... 7. http://www.webmd.com...