Teens should be educated about sex, not scared

Teens and young people have always lived in a casual atmosphere. It may be that being a teen makes you think that you can live through anything that you are invincible but it is important to note that teens go through a lot of different changes.
One of the biggest changes that teens seem to go through is the decision whither to “hook up” or have casual sex. I think that it is not necessarily a bad thing to have this because teens are most likely going to do it anyway. I am not being perverted, just being realistic. But the most important thing that you can teach a young person about sex, whiter it be in a relationship or casual is safe sex.
When I say safe sex, I do not mean just birth control and condoms. Well I do mean those things, I also mean that they should know how to talk about sex with their partners, their parents or at least an adult that they know they can feel confident about talking sex with.
I read an article that said hooking up can hurt young girls in a variety of ways. One is that it can deny their emotional needs. This may be true, the fact that a majority of young girls have a desire to be loved. They can deal with depression problems when they feel used just for sex or when they break up with someone who they were sexually involved with. And the last one is the risk of STD’s.
I agree that all of these dangers lie, but to tell a young girl to a young person to not have sex is not the way to deal with these problems. If you know anything, that over 80 percent of teens to pledge to remain absent from sex till their married do not stick to that pledge. Also, a high number of those teens get pregnant or contract a sexually transmitted disease because they do not really know how to do birth control.
Well there is an inherent danger of teens having sex, there is more value in not hiding the consequences from them and educating them about it. If they are going to make this decision, I just hope it is an educated one.