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Friday February 21, 2003
12:43 PM

Attention grabbing headlines

[ #10727 ]
This tidbit came up via Google News:

School children under 16 are being encouraged to experiment with oral sex as part of a Government-backed drive to cut Britain's sky-high teenage pregnancy rate, newspapers reported on Friday.

Did «cut the teenage pregnancy rate» become a euphamism for «nudge-nudge, wink-wink» when I wasn't paying attention?

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  • I file "ORAL SEX HOW-TO" under the Life Skills component of the curriculum. Hell, they might as well, learn something in school.
  • I actually had to read the article twice. I thought it was a joke the first time I read it but then to my amusement I realized that they were serious :-)
  • Goddammit, I'm going back to High School to be just like Jerry Blank [comedycentral.com].

    How many of you want to wake up in a public bathroom lying in a pool of, what you hope is, your own filth?
  • The Times, of course, had its own rather bad spin on the story, and it's got picked up on by blogdom. However, if you read the BBC News coverage [bbc.co.uk] a somewhat different picture emerges.

    It only mentions oral sex once: "Examples included when a 14-year-old girl asks: 'What does semen taste like?' Or a 15-year-old boy: 'How do gay men have sex, and is it possible for a man and woman to do it the same way?'" Both of these seem like reasonable questions for curious, sexually mature, teenagers to ask, and should we
    • It only mentions oral sex once: "Examples included when a 14-year-old girl asks: 'What does semen taste like?' Or a 15-year-old boy: 'How do gay men have sex, and is it possible for a man and woman to do it the same way?'" Both of these seem like reasonable questions for curious, sexually mature, teenagers to ask, and should we not answer them?

      I cannot answer for other parents or children, but for my child, yes, you should not answer them. I don't see why you would or should. My child has responsible pa