JW Youth- Harshest Rules Ever

by metatron 12 Replies latest jw friends

  • metatron
    metatron

    Witness parents wring their hands, cry in their pillows and mumble
    remarks about Satan's influence "in these last days."

    They are told that the world is getting worse and worse.
    They are told that temptations are no different than they've ever been.

    WRONG! They are being deceived, yet again, by ignorant nonsense
    pumped by the Watchtower!

    The fact is: Young people are suffering from Watchtower rules on sex
    that are more extreme, historically, than any that have ever
    existed.

    Please consider that studies show that the age at which young
    women start menstruating has been dropping, generation after
    generation, possibly due to better nutrition. At the same time,
    human society has been converting from an agricultural way
    of life into industrial cultures. It used to be common for
    young people to share a multi-generational home and get married
    early, to help provide labor for farming.

    Put it all together, and it was common to achieve sexual maturity
    and get married in an ordered society WITHIN A YEAR OR TWO!

    Today, a young person might be sexually capable at 11 or 12.
    They may have to defer any marriage because you can't make a
    good living with a hay fork anymore! You need a good education
    - and time to build up a career before assuming the responsibilities
    of marriage.

    Put it all together TODAY, and you might have more than a decade
    gone by in singlehood - and be expected never to fornicate or masturbate!

    This is ridiculous! MORE is being demanded from these poor
    Witness kids that their ancestors had to endure.

    And keep in mind, when you hear the protests from older people
    on the topic of sex, that FOR DECADES the Watchtower Society
    had no disfellowshipping at all - and many Witnesses, LEADERSHIP
    INCLUDED, took 'full advantage " of that fact, if you catch my
    drift!

    Yet, in the face of this - and a more open abundance of sexually
    oriented material than ever before - the Watchtower increases its
    harsh rule (you can officially be df'd for whacking off to the internet??)

    The Apostle James was right (Acts 15). He asked:

    "Why are you imposing a burden on the disciples
    which neither we, nor our forefathers were able to bear?"

    Indeed!

    metatron

  • Grout
    Grout

    Has the rule about masturbation changed, then? IIRC, when I looked into the matter (ahem), it was discouraged but not a judicial issue.

  • metatron
    metatron

    It has been reported that you can be df'd for masturbation
    using the INTERNET.

    Apparently, there's some difference between dirty pictures on
    the internet and elsewhere(?).

    metatron

  • OUTLAW
    OUTLAW

    I don`t know what the problem is?The WTBS has been jerkin-off their,members(excuse the pun)for over a hundred years!...OUTLAW

  • proplog2
    proplog2

    Has anything been said that JW women are old-maids at 25. If a JW girl doesn't get married by the time she's 19 her chances go way down if she stays in the organization. She can only hope that some "normal" male will stumble into the Kingdom Hall someday. Unfortunately, unattached males that come into the organzization after the age of 20 are usually crazy.

  • ItsJustMe
    ItsJustMe

    It's not masturbating with the porn sites that can get you DF'd - it's "cybering" with another person.

  • Rex B13
    Rex B13

    Why do you want to promote teenage sex?
    You are just as misinformed about the issue as any Watchtower writer, but in the other direction.

    >Put it all together TODAY, and you might have more than a decade
    gone by in singlehood - and be expected never to fornicate or masturbate!
    This is ridiculous! MORE is being demanded from these poor
    Witness kids that their ancestors had to endure.

    First of all, I will agree that masturbation is an outlet and not a perversion. However, if you think that youngsters having sex does not harm them, you are being ridiculous. My gosh man, look at the consequences kids face emotionally and physically in these days of abortion on demand, herpes, hepatitus, AIDS and a zillion other types of Chlamydia (which often produces sterility because it's original symptoms are so mild). There are bugs that do NOT STOP at rubber.
    Women end up being treated as sex objects. Media portray them as skinny waifs or adolescent lolitas and this alone results in eating disorders and unbound promiscuity.
    I'm sorry, but I don't want any of these things to happen to my twelve year old niece or nephew, even when they are 14, 16,18, never. If they stay pure for a twenties marriage it is a proven fact that theyt stand to live a happier, healthier life.
    Rex

  • metatron
    metatron

    "misinformed"? Perhaps you're speaking to a mirror.

    I don't want teenagers having sex, period.
    But I'm also realistic - the WitNazis are simply
    adding to heartbreak and disaster by their extreme
    rules. You seem to make some allowance for masturbation,
    at least that's something.

    metatron

  • Xena
    Xena

    I think everyone on here will agree that teenagers having sex isn't a great idea, but as metatron pointed out it IS the reality of life! They can and do have sex so wouldn't it be better to inform them and equip them for it?

    When I was a JW I told my 19 year old niece that it would be better for her to wait till she was married (I have since changed my viewpoint on this to say the least..but that is for a different thread) BUT if she couldn't wait to MAKE SURE AND USE BIRTHCONTROL. She didn't listen to me..to use birthcontrol will be premeditated sex..a d/f offence to say the least.

    The outcome? She got pregnant by a "brother"...ended up married at 19 with a child and a husband she doesn't really love (hoping he will cheat on her so she can get a divorce)...plans to further her education have been dropped....BUT the GOOD NEWS is she didn't get d/f! [8&>]<------this is supposed to be the face with the rolling eyes..where did I go wrong??? lol

    My daughter WILL be educated regarding sex!

  • Sirona
    Sirona

    I agree Xena,

    The borg do not prepare young people well enough, because they simply forbid everything to do with sex!

    I was reproved for having sex with my fiance just a few months before our wedding, and we were given a major lecture on the fact that we HAD used a condom...because they said that showed we had premeditated the act!!! (like people who are engaged havent thought about it?).
    Then, despite the fact we'd only done it once and used protection, they still "watched" me for months to make sure I wasnt pregnant (I told them I wasnt). Then they said "get married quick" to alleviate the temptation!

    I think that teenage sex is not advisable, but neither is it advisable to push people into marriage when they are not ready.

    It seems to me that its near impossible for the JW youth nowadays. In my local hall, there is a group of young men who cant seem to meet anyone suitable, thats because all the young women are married (one with a baby and married at 18).

    Sirona

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