Britian is screwed (so, so literally)
Perhaps Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) has just given up. Perhaps, in the spirit of “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em,” they’ve decided to throw in the towel. Perhaps they’ve decided that things like teen sexuality and teenage pregnancy are unsolvable problems, genies that cannot be bottled up again.
And so, far from attempting to encourage kids to exhibit any kind of sexual responsibility or sense of delayed gratification — which, remember, actually works to reduce the rate of teen pregnancy! — they have instead opted to encourage kids to throw all caution to the wind:
The NHS is telling school pupils they have a ‘right’ to an enjoyable sex life and that it is good for their health.
A Health Service leaflet says experts concentrate too much on the need for safe Sex and loving relationships, and not enough on the pleasure it can bring.
Because that’s the message teens really need to hear: don’t worry about love, mutual respect, or supportive relationships; just get to the business of what feels great, and don’t fret over all those attachments and emotional hangups.
Under the heading ‘an orgasm a day keeps the doctor away’, the leaflet says: ‘Health promotion experts advocate five portions of fruit and veg a day and 30 minutes physical activity three times a week. What about sex or masturbation twice a week?’
The advice, which also claims regular sex is good for cardiovascular health, has been circulated to parents, teachers and youth workers.
Know what else is good for the heart? Exercise in general, like…running, cycling, playing a sport, or just generally getting off your enlarged posterior and forsaking the XBox for an evening. And as an added bonus (we’re all about the added value here at KHdN), going for a jog or playing a bit of soccer with your mates carries absolutely no risk of becoming pregnant or siring a child.
The scheme tried to persuade girls not to get pregnant by handing out condoms and teaching them about sex.
It didn’t work before…maybe if we wish extra-double-super hard this time, and say it in a different tone of voice, it will! Not that handing out condoms is a solution in and of itself; there’s still the matter of convincing guys to use them.
ts author, Steve Slack, director of the Centre for HIV and Sexual Health at NHS Sheffield, defended it by saying the advice could encourage young people to delay losing their virginity until they are sure they will enjoy the experience.
Maybe it’s just me, but I just cannot reconcile the slogan “an orgasm a day keeps the doctor away” with the concept of encouraging children to delay losing their virginity.
Funnily, I would bet (were I a betting man) good money that in a decade or so, assuming this policy comes to fruition, that Steve Slack and his contemporaries will be on record expressing their shock at the massive surge in the teen pregnancy rate.
Parents in Britain are rightly angry abut this; many school administrators have also gone on record condemning this programme. Let’s hope their voices win the day; one hesitates to think of the ruin that will be visited upon English schoolchildren if they do not.
(hat tip)
