Posted on 06/07/2009 2:06:01 PM PDT by TaraP
Boys as young as 12 are to be issued with condom "credit cards" allowing them to pick up free contraception at football grounds, barber’s shops and scout huts.
Condoms will be distributed at places where boys congregate, to spare them the embarrassment of visiting sexual health clinics or GPs’ surgeries or facing a shop assistant at a pharmacist's counter.
They will be able to collect the condoms by showing a plastic card issued to them after they have attended a safe-sex lesson, according to new government guidance. Boys who take advantage of the scheme will not have to give their names or answer questions about their sex lives.
The scheme is intended to cut teenage pregnancies and persuade boys to take greater responsibility for contraception.
However, critics believe it will encourage children to be sexually active from a younger age. Britain has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe and the government has failed in its pledge to halve rates of pregnancy in girls under the age of 18.
The plastic cards are already used by some local authorities, but will be made available to all boys in Britain aged 13 and over after the guidance is published in the autumn.
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The UK seems to be constantly...*Under the influence*
One of the rites of manhood is buying your first pack of rubbers at the local drug store. Nobody should be denied that fun.
Why not whore houses?
Yes, because lack of condom access is what’s holding kids back from safe sex. Also, the sky is green and flowers smell like vomit.
“Why not whore houses?”
Because public schools already hand them out for free.
I’ve sometimes wondered at all the talk of sex, sex information, sex education that our society has pushed in the last 40+ years. In a time with greater amounts of information available, and education on these subjects in schools, and the whole “safe sex” message, we have seen skyrocketing rates of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
Rates of unwed/teenage pregnancy and VD have moved up over the years along with increasing the information and education about sex matters. It’s like these programs influence people to do the opposite of what we would like.
“hey buddy, I’ll trade ya two of my 2 condom cards, mint, for your mantle rookie card, waddaya say gomer? deal?”
Roses are red
Violets are blue
put this on, before you .........
Most young men these days are emotionally castrated. Why not just cut their nuts off at birth and make them lifelong liberals....
Kinda strange....kids get illegal drugs, booze, drive way too fast,
shoot guns, but can’t figure out how and when to use a
condom...
Hey “policymakers”...maybe it’s cuz they don’t really want
to use them. Asking children to have safe, “responsible” sex
is just about the same as asking them to not have sex in the
first place....
Why the **** would a barber shop agree to hand out condoms? By far, one of the weirdest things I’ve ever heard.
Bars would be a better place (although they usually have machines anyway).
Just by offering information about sex the public schools are indicating that this is OK behavior for kids. They would never provide information about safe gun handling or safe smoking.
EXACTLY.....I remember my mother was on some committee on sex education when I was in high school (this was late 1960’s....and had me read their stuff.....I really had not been interested....and don’t recall much of what I read....but, I didn’t need to be PUSHED in that direction. We were church goers...but there was NEVER ANY admonition on THAT side or guidance.... I strongly believe that the PUSHING of SEX is the problem.
Maybe the Dentist Office-Instead of a sucker, you get a tootbrush and a condom....
UK=Psychotic Reaction...
Fortunately the Church of England has a two-pronged pro-active policies to combat this: promoting abortion and homosexuality.
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The World has changed in a ways I would of never dreamed of,
At 12, me and my friends were out collecting Coke bottles from the neighborhood, to cash in so we could use the change to buy more RC Colas and Laura Scudder Potato Chips and ride the swings and jump off....
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