I am responding to Eric Zorn’s column “Save it for marriage? Most of us rewrote that fact of life” (Metro, July 2).
Fidelity and the unquestioned trust of each spouse in the other’s commitment to be faithful are necessary conditions of a happy marriage. To be faithful in marriage requires discipline.
How does one acquire this discipline? Certainly not by promiscuity. To allow our appetite a free rein prior to marriage and then expect the marriage commitment to cool this appetite is foolhardy. Better to practice abstinence in one’s teenage years, so that if and when the commitment to fidelity and marriage is tested, the discipline developed will prevail.
My second point is more pragmatic. Sexual intercourse with more than one partner in a teenage female places that child at a higher risk for cervical dysplasia and cancer.
