Oral sex lessons to cut rates of teenage pregnancy [UK]

The Observer (UK) ^ | May 9, 2004 | Mark Townsend

[schmelvin]

[Didn't this used to be called "third base"?]

Whoa, not when I was a teen. 1st base was French kissing. 2nd base was groping under the shirt. 3rd base was groping under the panties. A home run was sexual intercourse. And, oral sex was something that only prostitutes did.

I'm showing my age, aren't I

[CyberAnt]

Well .. in my day, when a young lady kept her pants on, she also kept her mouth shut!

There .. does that solve the problem for ya ..??

[Lancey Howard]

Okey dokey.

Regards,
LH

[dr_who_2]

Makes one wonder what they did during this "study".

[dr_who_2]

Wait a minute! What happened to free condoms? Did the students mistake them for party balloons?

[John Lenin]

Uh huh, most 14 year olds have the willpower to not go all the way after they get all worked up. I cannot believe the stupidity of this.

[pau1f0rd]

Don't include GB under the category of Europe ;-)

[Texasforever]

I guess by "Oral" they don't mean just to talk a lot about sex.

[Texasforever]

Lord what a thread to get 69 as a post number.

[krb]

We're not far behind them.

[SevenDaysInMay]

IMO, EUrope is moving toward lowering the ager of "consent" to 14 or even 12. Clintons' own ex-ACLU Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsburg is a proponent of 14 y.o.consent in America.

Sex-ed would actually become adult on early teen "teaching" the future generation "responsible" sex and abortion choice to cover one's mistakes.

Now that sodomy has been approved by the current SCOTUS, "safe sex" taught by experts is coming to middle schools near your homes.

Children cannot be left to be children well supervised by adults beause early teens can be so attractive to adults and other children, girls often maturing physically enough for use by the age of 10-12. "Lord of the Flies' sex-ed.

All this just as anti-biotic proof STDs are spreading across the world faster than islam's "honor killings".

All the world wants a Lewinski. Chelsea, thank your dad for all of our kids.

[bootyist-monk]

[Madstrider]

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.

Idiots. UK is also the only European nation with a birth rate anywhere near "replacement" level of 2.1 lifetimes births per woman. Other European countries have birth rates so low that they are on the highway to extinction.

You cannot have fertility high enough to sustain or grow the population unless you have relatively high levels of teenage pregnancy. This is true everywhere and in every era. It is a universal law, and anyone who studies demographics understands this.

The problem is not teenage pregnancy per se, it's unwed motherhood without regard to the age of the mother.

[litany_of_lies]

Y'know, we all missed that point. Thanks for bringing it up; very good catch, since we're all essentially assuming, thanks to the article's silence, that the 39,000 are all unmarried and don't plan marriage to the father. The article doesn't state how many of the pregnant teens were already married or about to be married (the old shotgun wedding). We could conceivably (pun intended) be looking at a non-problem. Certain segments of Britain may still marry quite young.

We could argue all day about whether marrying young is a good idea, but objective studies on balance would certainly show that if the kid isn't given up for adoption, being born to ANY married couple works out better than being born to a single mom.

[mhking]

Sales of certain vegetables are up?

(OK, OK, I know that was bad -- I'm sorry)

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[null and void]

I guess Bill Clinton save the world after all.

LOL!

[null and void]

Didn't this used to be called "third base"? Do teens now need lessons in how to get there?

Well DUH! They don't have PE anymore...

[boxsmith13]

Like they'll stop with oral sex. More evidence that Europe is dying

[cyborg]

hehehehehe it's sunday... you should be ashamed LOL