Promoting Abstinence "proven to work"

[Mr Khan]

There's nothing wrong with abstinence, but only as part of a broader approach. I believe it is appropriate to teach people not to be promiscuous for various reasons, that it is better to have sex with someone you're into rather than random people you pick up at bars (or however the hell people do it...), but the fact of the matter is you need to teach them how to have safe sex, because it is downright guaranteed that within marriage or without, within a relationship or without, people are going to have sex for purposes other than procreation, and if you don't want tons of unwanted pregnancies, if you do want less abortions or an easier burden on society from low-income individuals (where unwanted births tend the highest), you need to teach them about safe sex

The problem with the abstinence only approach is not only is it naive, but incredibly archaic, because it is designed with the biblical proscription against copulation for any purpose other than procreation (even if you're married to someone, you can't have sex unless you're trying to get them pregnant). Married couples getting into sexual situations cluelessly could be just as bad for things in the long run as horny, sexually uneducated teenagers just trying to figure out what goes where.

Abstinence-only should be considered unconstitutional, because it serves no practical purpose other than the fulfillment of a religious agenda, an agenda which even in the context of the religion is outdated. Because we're talking about old testament stuff here. The story of Onan, who was stricken down because he was having sex with the wife that he inherited from his dead older brother, but he didn't want to give her children because those children would technically belong to the older brother's estate, so he would pull out before ejaculating, and God smote him for that crime. Really the story relates more to matters of inheritance in old Jewish law than anything else (he didn't want his brother to "have" any heirs so that he would get more when the time came for estate division. There's also the proscription on "giving up your seed to Molech," but God alone (and the writers of the bible) know exactly what the hell that means.