We Don’t Need More Sex Education — We Need Accountability
But come on.
Let’s be honest.
Nobody over the age of twelve doesn’t know how babies are made.
Everyone knows what causes pregnancy. Everyone knows where STDs come from.
It’s not a lack of education. It’s a lack of accountability.
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The Lie of Ignorance
People love to pretend that recklessness comes from not knowing better. It’s a convenient excuse because it softens responsibility. “They just didn’t know.” “They weren’t taught.” “We need more education.”
No. Most people know exactly what they’re doing. They just hope they won’t have to deal with the outcome.
We act like everyone needs a graduate course in biology to figure this out, when the average fifteen-year-old can find porn faster than they can find their homework.
We’re not dealing with ignorance — we’re dealing with denial.
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The Stigma Paradox
The real irony is that society stigmatizes preventative measures more than the behavior itself.
People feel embarrassed buying condoms, but not embarrassed getting tested.
They’ll whisper about birth control, but brag about “going raw.”
They’ll avoid Plan B in the store because it’s awkward — but walk into a clinic without a second thought.
We’ve made it socially acceptable to deal with the fallout, but uncomfortable to prevent it.
That’s not education — that’s ego.
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Accountability Isn’t Cruelty
Now, I’m not saying people don’t deserve compassion. Mistakes happen. Hormones happen. Life happens.
But grace without accountability isn’t grace — it’s permission.
There’s a big difference between people who mess up once and learn, and people who treat chaos like a lifestyle.
One deserves support. The other deserves a mirror.
When someone keeps making the same choice over and over, it stops being a mistake — it becomes a pattern. And when the pattern keeps repeating while everyone around them keeps making excuses, it becomes a culture.
That’s what we have now: a culture that mistakes sympathy for solutions.
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Education Isn’t the Missing Piece
“More education” has become our catch-all answer for every social problem — violence, addiction, sex, money, you name it. But education without accountability just creates smarter excuses.
People don’t need more information — they need incentive to use the information they already have.
We don’t need new curriculums; we need consequences that mean something.
Because if people only learn when they get burned, then maybe the issue isn’t awareness — maybe it’s comfort.
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The Real Lesson
The truth is, everyone already knows how this works.
They just gamble that they’ll be the lucky ones who never have to face the odds.
And when it doesn’t go their way, suddenly it’s society’s fault. Suddenly, it’s a lack of funding, a lack of education, a lack of resources.
Anything but a lack of discipline.
We’ve turned irresponsibility into a political talking point.
We’ve made bad judgment fashionable as long as it’s framed as self-expression.
And the people who try to call it out get labeled as judgmental or “lacking empathy.”
But empathy without boundaries turns into enabling.
And enabling is just a polite way of saying, “Keep doing what you’re doing — someone else will clean it up.”
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Closing Thought
We don’t need another lecture on how sex works.
We need people to stop pretending they don’t already know.
Because at this point, “lack of education” isn’t the problem — it’s the alibi.
Everyone knows what happens when you have unprotected sex. They just hope it won’t work this time.
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