Sex - let's talk about it:

You didn't get pregnant. You didn't get AIDS. So, why do you feel so bad? No one's invented a condom for your heart or a contraceptive against getting hurt.

How many teens that had sex still have each other?

What is wrong with having sex with someone you love so much? Especially when you are sure it will last forever? Well, most teenage relationships don't last. Just because your bodies were ready for sex, does not mean your minds and hearts were..

Getting pregnant and catching diseases aren't the only ways that sex can hurt you.

Contraceptives fail more often than you probably imagine. In fact, there is no such thing as 'safe sex'. But, even if you are 'lucky', premarital sex can leave emotional scars that you'll have to live with for the rest of your life.

You may have thought it was love, but it was just sex.

When you are having sex with someone, it's hard to tell what's love - the person or sex. You might be looking for intimacy, not sex. Sometimes sex sounds a lot like love, but it's not. So it's easy to wind up in a relationship, or even marriage, with someone who's wrong for you. Waiting to have sex lets you find out if it is really someone you can love.

After you've had sex with someone, breaking up hurts twice as bad.

When you trust someone completely and then that person walks away, you'll feel used in a way you never have before. After all, you can have sex the rest of your life, but you can only give away your virginity once. If you give it to the wrong person it won't take a baby or a disease to make you feel terrible. Think about waiting. You may be surprised at how good it can feel.

So, before you say 'yes' to sex, think about finding out...

• The pill didn't work
• Getting pregnant
• Having to quit school, paying child support
• Marrying the wrong person

Then listen to thousands of teenagers who'll tell you it would have been a whole lot easier if they had just decided to wait. See, today decides what tomorrow will look like. The stuff you do with your life now affects the way your life will be later. That's why it's best to save sex for marriage.

At the end it is your choice, it is your life and you need to take responsibility for the decisions you make.