You can certainly have that opinion, but her original question wasn't "do you think I'm old enough to have sex", the question was about something actually to do
with sex. I just think it's really condescending and totally unnecessary that some people felt the need to lecture someone who is obviously already sexually active, not to do so, especially when she says she is taking birth control. It's not up to anyone else to tell someone they are not old enough to have sex, especially if you don't even know that person, or their maturity level, like you said. It just comes off as this preachy, holier than thou attitude. Personally, I find it strange that people find 16 as too young to have sex since that isn't exactly out of the norm. Whether 16
should be considered too young or not, is totally irrelevant - it's nobody's choice but one's own, and members should feel comfortable here to ask questions without worrying about a world of judgment coming down on them for their own choices.
BTW I never understand why accidental pregnancy is often "explained away" by saying they were that 1% that protection somehow or magically didn't work for. Nearly every single person who I know personally who had an accidental pregnancy early on in life, claims that somehow birth control didn't work for them. Kind of odd, don't you think? I mean let's just call a spade a spade, probably the majority of accidental or teen pregnancies are due to human error, such as incorrect use (skipping a pill, incorrect use of condoms, etc.) Not saying anything about accidental pregnancy, but I just think we should face the facts here and be honest that in today's age, unwanted pregnancy can be almost completely prevented, unless of course in circumstances like rape, etc. That point seems to be used often as a scare tactic to force teens into abstinence, with the insistence that sex leads to unwanted pregnancy, when that doesn't necessarily have to be true at all. In fact, preaching abstinence often leads to more teen pregnancies. Oh also about keeping it to a minimum, just cause I thought was kind of a funny statement: You can have unprotected sex once and get pregnant, or use protection correctly and sleep with a different guy every night and never get pregnant. So I don't think the number of times is really relevant in that case?
Anyway this is getting totally off topic...poor girl just wanted some info on queefs! LOL