Emma Thompson Quotes

Well, I think that abstinence has its place as part of a comprehensive health and sex education curriculum. It would be wrong to exclude abstinence from a health curriculum, because there are some potentially very serious ramifications for early sexual activity.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

Those still in school and colleges have no business having access to condoms. I am not in favor of condoms.

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.

When the alternative may be death, condom distribution is worth trying.

Let us be brave and change our life style. Let us stick to our single partners and stop over-indulging. If we cannot do it, let us use condoms.

Too many kids think condoms are nasty and vulgar, instead of as something that can save your life.

Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.

The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices.

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening.

Sex education has to do with what's in people's head.

I'm not convinced that abstinence-only education works.

The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion.

The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently.

I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.

I went to Catholic school and they basically just said don't have sex, but would never explain anything.

I cannot believe that my generation may very well have been the last one to have sex education in schools that was truly the complete and total package. I mean what are we doing? Are we in the future, but acting like it's The Dark Ages?

In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.

We all want abstinence. And if I knew how to get abstinence I would do whatever it takes to do that ... Given a choice between hearing my daughter say I'm pregnant or I used a condom, most mothers would get up in the middle of the night and buy them herself.

We need to teach responsibility not legislate morality, because the vows of abstinence break far more easily than latex condoms.

Responsible moral behavior is the first and best line of defense against AIDS, and is the only message we should send young people worldwide.

You can’t do anything about HIV-AIDS unless you are willing to talk about condoms.