George Monbiot: 'Joy of sex education'

[Teddy_Salad]

America's virgin soldiers are on their way - ignoring the dangers of abstinence for teenagers...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1214046,00.html

[kskiska]

1. What a joke!

Breathtaking as this deception is, it's not half as bad as what Bush has been up to. When his cherished abstinence programmes failed to reduce the rate of teenage births, he instructed the US Centres for Disease Control to stop gathering data. He also forced them to drop their project identifying the sex education programmes that work, after they found that none of the successful ones were "abstinence only".

[T_i_B]

2. I wouldn't worry...

...about the silver ring thing catching on in the UK. We are a much more secular society than the US for starters.

Plus the UK government is floating ideas like this

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1212734,00.html

Encouraging schoolchildren to experiment with oral sex could prove the most effective way of curbing teenage pregnancy rates, a government study has found.

Pupils under 16 who were taught to consider other forms of 'intimacy' such as oral sex were significantly less likely to engage in full intercourse, it was revealed.

Britain's teenage pregnancy rate is the highest in Europe. In 2002 there were 39,286 teen pregnancies recorded. The government has spent more than £60 million to tackle the problem but so far failed to halt the rise.

[Teddy_Salad]

4. Does this mean that....

......at the end of each term the students will have to take an "oral exam"? ;)

[T_i_B]

5. Ah, how we snickered

when the French or German teacher started talking about oral examinations!

Question is, who does the marking? :eyes:

[BlueEyedSon]

3. The usual Bush lunacy *kick*