[inquest]

As a matter of clarification, it looks as though this story refers to developments in Britain (though it could be a sign of what's to come here).

[tonycavanagh]

I hear one way to stop that sort of thing is to get married.

Cheers Tony

[Lunatic Fringe]

Anyone who suggests to CHILDREN that any type of sexual activity is ok should have their own kids taken away.... Honestly... Has anyone here ever dated someone, had oral sex, and said "Ok, that's good enough, we can stop there."

[SerpentDove]

The Clinton Legacy continues...

[Starwind]

"Oral sex is one of the 'stopping points' on the road to intercourse," she said, denying the advice was encouraging sexual activity.

"Another 'stopping point' is to hold hands," she added.

Obviously, with multiple progressive "stopping" points, they're really just milestones at which to pause, best-case, on the road to intercourse.

[Sirloin]

"Delaying the onset of teenage sexual activity is the only way to cut teenage pregnancy,"

What a fool. Might as well have said "I am completely in denial about the intense sexual drive that occurs during the teenage years. They should just ignore it."

[BrookdalePark]

If the people promoting this idea are serious, they're virgins.

Oral sex is a "stopping point" for about 10 minutes. Then you're ready for more, and you want ... more.

It's as effective as telling a 2-year-old not to eat an Oreo you've put on the table in front of him.

[punster]

Gee! If they were really trying to sell that, they should tell the kids they would have a guaranteed job with der Schlickmeister, William Judas Clinton.

[ClearCase_guy]

I do hope they also tell the children to seek out cocaine dealers as their drug resource of choice. This would be a good thing to teach children, because Cocaine is a "stopping point" which can prevent drug abusers from proceeding on to the far more dangerous drug, heroin.

[linn37]

hey how about just going home horny??? worked for me

[realpatriot71]

Family groups argue that oral sex is likely to lead to penetrative sex.

They're right. Like communism - looks good on paper - but doesn't work in reality.

[upchuck]

HOMESCHOOLING!!

[j_tull]

a bid to reduce the number of gymslip mums

Huh?

[MEGoody]

Better to teach abstinence until marriage as the superior option in all cases.

[RichInOC]

Schoolkids told to consider oral sex

Schoolkids reply 'Eat my shorts!'

[The_Reader_David]

Until our society (and British society) regains a firm grasp of the notion of virtue in the full meaning of the word, and stops replacing it with the Nietzschian/social-scientific weasle-word "values", I don't think we'll ever have sensible sex-education.

The left and libertines are all for teaching the virtue of prudence in regards to sex (as regards unwed pregancy, though not STD's, oral-sex-only is a prudent means of achieving intimacy and sexual fulfillment/release), while sneering at chastity. The right tends to want to teach the virtue of chastity, and sneers at prudence. What is needed is to teach all the virtues, including a good exposition of why and how the virtue of chastity has served both individuals and societies well down through the years: including avoidance of the psychological and health consequences of early and promiscuous sex, and the degree to which condoms, sex-short-of-intercourse, and other prudent measures only ameliorate but do not remove the risks and emotional consequences.

It would also be nice to include a good exposition of how all religious and philosophical traditions represented in our society have dealt with the sexuality, but doing in America this would require some delicacy in the face of the "wall-of-separation" fanatics. I suppose in Britain, the Anglican view could be taught, though as a former Anglican heretic, I'm not sure how useful that would be these days.

[GSWarrior]

When I was in school I was told to consider the alto sax.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

In my opinion, oral sex is more intimate than the traditional bumping of uglies.

[SwordofTruth]

"Oral sex is one of the 'stopping points' on the road to intercourse," she said, denying the advice was encouraging sexual activity.

LOL! If oral sex isn't sex than why does it have "sex" in the title?

What morons!

[mtbrandon49]

D@mn nea at it's finest.