Let Me Wipe That Smug Off Your Face

I sell Tupperware and also direct sell coffee (Kat's Coffees & More), and to advertise my businesses I work for a neighborhood greeting service. I basically put together packets of other businesses in the area for distribution to new residents.

The subject of this evenings post has little to do with how I spend my time stuffing packets, but everything to do with where the office in which I do this work is situated. On one end of the building is Crisis Pregnancy Services, and on the other is Planned Parenthood. Well, while me bosses were out to lunch, I saw no fewer than 10 teenage boys go into Planned Parenthood. Well, what's the big deal with that, you may ask?

Yes, I know they have free condoms, no questions asked to young men and women alike. The problem is the attitude these "boys" had going in, shy, humble, almost embarrassed, which was very contrary to the attitude they had coming out. Upon coming out they were horseplaying and loud. Apparently, going into Planned Parenthood is some sort of right of passage. I wonder what their potential partners would think of this behavior, the young women being just another conquest, probably less important than actually obtaining the condoms.

Now, being 20-10, and having a certain amount of hindsight where my youth was squandered, at the top of my list would be trying to catch the eye of the opposite sex, and "being intimate with as many as I could". Note, the parentheses, this denotes the fact that, I didn't even fully understand the term intimacy until I was like...Okay, it wasn't all that long ago. Itimacy is not a get naked and sweaty thing, though, sometimes that's what it becomes. Intimacy is an emotional thing, a spiritual thing, not a physical thing until the first two requirements have been met.

Now, I'm stuffing my packets this afternoon, letting my thoughts wander thinking, about these kids armed with condoms. Well, goody for them. Condoms can save them from STDs 90% of the time, and unwanted pregnancy 90% of the time, but want about the emotional damage that is done. I know I would change the way I became sexually active, wait longer, chose better, etc...I know I can't be the only person that has had regrets, in fact there has been many books written on the consequences of young women engaging in sexual activity too early.

One such book I really enjoyed, Return to Modesty, which also delved into modesty was written by a young woman, who not even 30 years old. Anyhow, off my soapbox for now, I need to load the dishwasher, then pick my middle guy up from scouts.