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Saturday Morning (wheretheheckare@Chocoholicand@lauriebizz) Discussion
  • CanadianMamaCanadianMama
    Posts: 9,606Administrator, Moderator
    Alrighty ladies, I guess I'm doing this morning's discussion (ahem @Chocholic, @lauriebizz).

    Recently the Governor of Tennessee signed a bill into law that would outlaw kissing and hugging in highschools, and I quote:

    "Kissing and hugging are the last stop before reaching Groin Central Station, so it's important to ban all the things that lead to the things that lead to sex"



    Do you think kissing and hugging automatically leads to sex? Do you think outlawing them is going to be effective, or do you think it's going to be detrimental???

    And go. 

    community-manager


  • RahsgirlRahsgirl
    Posts: 329Member
    Good morning!!! Ahh coffee.. It does the mind good!! Now for the topic....

    I don't think hugging and kissing automatically leads to sex. I think it's a way for couples to express themselves without having to take it all the way to the level of sex. At my HS we were really not suppose to be kissing we could hug and hold hands but that was as far as it goes. Well let me just say that as HS students they still found a way around it..I think that no matter what the rules are if students want to be able to kiss they will find a way around it.. (i.e. Meeting in the bathroom, locker room or even skipping school) Oh how I miss the excitement of a HS boyfriend!!



  • BellaBefanaBellaBefana
    Posts: 8,177Member
    Oh good grief. No, I don't think it's going to do any good. But neither do I think kids should be sucking face in the halls at school. I didn't even when I was in high school about a million years ago. Though maybe it was because I wasn't getting any. ;)

    I'm just not one big on PDAs, never have been. I can tolerate it if it's one of our service men/women in uniform at the airport, but other than that, I want to say "get a room!"
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  • unforgivenunforgiven
    Posts: 12,700Confessional Manager
    Seriously?! Lol. Let the kids make out!

    confessional-manager

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  • AnonUser34
    Posts: 1,799Guest
    Morning ladies ~O) its @lauriebizz anniversary weekend she's having fun with her DH :\"> I think the ban is overboard kids are going to kiss/hug their boyfriend/girlfriend no matter what, the same with having sex.. I think schools should worry more about education and not High School kids sex life's, let there parents deal with that. A kiss or hug good bye is not going to lead to them having sex in the bathrooms!!
  • ImWendyImWendy
    Posts: 6,561Member
    Um. When you're a teenager, EVERYTHING leads to sex. Why don't they just lock them in a cell? Lol
    deus ex machina
  • BeerWenchBeerWench
    Posts: 2,820Member
    Hugging -> kissing -> dancing -> sex

    On a 3 day bender ;)

    Much love to all xoxoxo
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  • [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,551
    I am also busy celebrating @lauriebizz's anniversary from a few hundred miles away ;)

    Lol actually just spent the morning going for a run, then out for a picnic!!!


    As a high school teacher, I will say that I do not allow for PDAs in my classroom, and I do not think PDAs are appropriate for school (I try to teach my students that school is their "job", and much like in the workplace that type of behavior is inappropriate), but to OUTLAW it!?!? Especially based on THAT rationale?

    Yea, just no. That's ridiculous. Let us teach students about appropriate behavior- oh and can I add that this particular state happens to love abstinence only education, yet has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates? Food for thought...
  • PurpleFlowersPurpleFlowers
    Posts: 5,634Member
    Thats just ridiculous. How would they even enforce such a thing?
    Stay away from my chocolate and nobody gets hurt!

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  • OpheliaOphelia
    Posts: 3,323Member
    If hugging abd kissing automatically lead to sex, I'd be a big ol whore by now.
    Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile.. -Grateful Dead<3
  • SammieSammie
    Posts: 7,277Administrator, Moderator
    Agree with you completely @chocoholic. I just read the article with Nate and we both said the SAME exact thing your saying.

    Hugging and kissing in school? No. It's not the time nor the place. Are teenagers going to hug and kiss? Yes. It's not the end of the world at all. I just don't think it should be happening in the classroom/hallway of the school. Like you said, school is much like their job and PDA in the workplace would not be tolerated (barring extreme circumstances, of course), so it should not be condoned at school. Making it illegal? If I rolled my eyes any harder, they would fall out of my head. Asinine.

    BUT, not surprising. The same man who uses the term 'Groin Central Station' is representing a state that has a completely ineffective, unrealistic approach to sexual education. Scratch that. There is NO sex ed. It's a completely backwards way of thinking. To me, at least.

    community-manager


  • AnonUser28
    Posts: 2,083Guest
    People here kiss for hello, in schook, on the street, in the workplace... wouldn't fly here in frenchland.
  • irishlassirishlass
    Posts: 6,726Member
    Lol! This is hilarious! I think making out in the hallway is pretty inappropriate. School is not the place for it. But can't they just make it a policy?
    "Be who you are and say what you feel. Because those who matter don't mind and those who mind don't matter." - Dr. Seuss
  • episcopal
    Posts: 1,402Member
    Granted, it's been thirty years since I graduated from HS, but we were only told to stop if there was some serious making out going on while on the school premises or at school functions.  No one would have said no to handholding and I don't think a peck on the lips would have been a problem.  I realize that there are kids today who are far more "daring."

    Outlawing it, though, is going WAY too far.  Don't we have enough bigger problems to tackle?  No legislator seems to want to tackle those for fear of pissing off their most supportive constituents.

    I ask this not to attack anyone with a particular POV, but is this being taken up simply to energize voters on the far right? 
  • episcopal
    Posts: 1,402Member
    If policies about proper decorum are to be made, they should be created by the individual school district, not the state!
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