This article doesn't even mention that one factor in the out-of-control disease rates among British children and young adults may be the introduction of the “morning-after” pill. According to testimony offered to the FDA in 2004, sexually-transmitted infections soared in the British Isles when “Plan B” (the morning-after pill) was made available without prescription in 2000.
Ignoring the warning signals from the UK, California subsequently became one of the first states to permit the sale of Plan B over-the-counter without an age limit. (Compiled testimony of Wendy Wright, Carole Denner, and Jill Stanek, "The Morning-After Pill: An Ill Wind This Way Blows.") So now, a study published in September in the Californian Journal of Health Promotion reports that in 2005 there were 1.1 million new cases of sexually-transmitted infections among young people in California. The 1.1 million figure is ten times higher than previously believed, and it means that in the 15-24 age group, diseases such as gonorrhea, HIV, and HPV infect one out of every four young Californians.
Plan B: the solution... to the horny boy's problem.
That’s an interesting take on the problem. It’s a question of “worse” consequences, i.e., unintended teen pregnancies vs. infectious diseases.
So, in the long run, which of two bad consequences costs the taxpayer more money and presents society with greater problems. I don’t know about GB but here in the U.S. the Great Society welfare debacle essentially paid women on welfare to gin out as many babies as possible. It’s been a societal disaster.
Go back to showing graphic films of STDs in schools. It was common practice decades ago.