^Fair enough point, I agree to an extent and I also agree that it's depressing that the pill (I assume you mean the pill when you say birth control?) is issued so young and for so many reasons including achne. However, it's not very practical or realistic and we can see it's not very practical by the rising extent we have of sexual problems and age. Some people can and will decide to wait until they are married, but perhaps perform other sexual actions which still require protection before that and some will say that it's worth working on any possible sexual incompatibilities after marriage because they love each other etc... fine, if they can do it, believe it and it works without them settling because they didn't at least discuss things before, fine and respect. But for others, it's more a lack of self-control, or not caring, hedonism/nihilism, not masturbating enough or masturbating too much and still feeling very hormonal because they don't channel that energy into other interests enough etc or they are casual but actually pretty safe about it and it just happened to go 'wrong' or they hardly ever have sex and it still went wrong.
The lack of protection doesn't stop people having sex, but hopefully it will at least help many who do. Then there's the group of people who don't want or just don't end up getting married - what do they do?
I'm sure some people can be celibate or pretty celibate all their lives but not everyone can, and for those that can't/don't want to stay celebate (perhaps they want to have sex only once or relatively few times even) - they need protection/birth control too.
In general - I'm anti-pill, it is very effective no doubt but very dangerous and I don't like the way it's marketed as a kind of 'cure' to the period, as if the period is a curse (I know it can be insufferable for many women - to those and others with more active sex lives, the pill or quarterly injection is helpful, but not to all).
But anyway, don't be sad
, there's no need to rush, in contrast to what many people think, life can actually long with plenty of time to do things, find that special person
etc and bittersweet but true many of us have been romantically loved/like and never knew it, much the same as we can obsess/love/be infatuated with others and they never know it. I admire that you know you can do many things, that don't contradict your principles, which make you happy and feel good
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I thought this was recent until I saw a Froggert post